
Utilization of Thermal Potential of Abandoned Wells
Fundamentals, Applications and Research
- 1st Edition - March 30, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Younes Noorollahi, Muhammad Nihal Naseer, Muhammad Mobin Siddiqi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 6 1 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 3 0 - 6
Utilization of Thermal Potential of Abandoned Wells: Fundamentals, Applications and Research is a lucid treatment of the fundamental concepts related to the energy harvestin… Read more
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Request a sales quoteUtilization of Thermal Potential of Abandoned Wells: Fundamentals, Applications and Research is a lucid treatment of the fundamental concepts related to the energy harvesting of abandoned wells. The book provides a journey through recent technological developments to harvest energy from abandoned geothermal wells and allows the reader to view the process from a thermodynamic and numerical modeling perspective. Various applications and future prospects are also discussed to help inform reader’s future work and research. Students, researchers and engineers will gain a thorough understanding on how to harvest energy from abandoned geothermal wells, particularly to make sound thermodynamic and economic evaluations.
System designers and others engaged in the energy sector will understand how to design and choose the most appropriate technology, how to determine its efficiency, monitor the facility, and how to make informed physical and economical decisions for necessary improvements and environmental assessments.
- Logically works through fundamentals, with various examples throughout
- Provides instruction to simulate thermodynamic models and design efficient systems
- Presents feasibility studies and applications
1. Introduction to energy harvesting systems
2. Historical overview of geothermal energy
3. Fundamentals of geothermal energy
4. Thermodynamics of geothermal energy
Part II: Abandoned wells and its global thermal potential
5. Global outlook of thermal potential
6. Global/country geothermal potential distribution
7. Historical utilization of geothermal potential
Part III: Energy Extraction from abandoned wells
8. Simulation and thermodynamic modelling
9. Working fluid evaluation
10. Resource Evaluation
11. Energy production
12. Production capability forecast models
13. Insulation of abandoned geothermal wells
Part IV: Feasibility, economic and environmental analysis
14. Feasibility analysis
15. Major challenges
16. Major contributors of cost
17. Environmental impacts
Part V: Applications
18. Electricity generation
19. Single and multi-generation system
20. Desalination
21. Integration with renewables
22. Other applications
Part VI: Revitalization of abandoned oil and gas wells
23. State of art technologies
24. Methods of exploration
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 30, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 480
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323906166
- eBook ISBN: 9780323908306
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Younes Noorollahi
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Muhammad Nihal Naseer
Muhammad Nihal Naseer is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. He started his research career in 2018 at the Laboratory of Applied Sciences at NUST-Pakistan. His field of research is thermodynamic modelling of energy conversion and storage systems. In 2019, he was a scientific assistant at the NANOCAT research center at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He has published over 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and has served as an editor of two books.
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