TY - JOUR
T1 - Geological and engineering features of developing ultra-high-temperature geothermal systems in the world
AU - Okamoto, Kyosuke
AU - Asanuma, Hiroshi
AU - Ishibashi, Takuya
AU - Yamaya, Yusuke
AU - Saishu, H.
AU - Yanagisawa, N.
AU - Mogi, Toru
AU - Tsuchiya, Noriyoshi
AU - Okamoto, Atsushi
AU - Naganawa, Shigemi
AU - Ogawa, Y.
AU - Ishitsuka, Kazuya
AU - Fujimitsu, Yasuhiro
AU - Kitamura, K.
AU - Kajiwara, Tatsuya
AU - Horimoto, S.
AU - Shimada, Kuniaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is based on results obtained from a project subsidized by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). We gratefully acknowledge valuable comments by Dr. Norihiro Watanabe (AIST). We also gratefully acknowledge insightful and kind suggestions to improve the manuscript by the editor and anonymous reviewers.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - It has been suggested that a large amount of crustal fluid is trapped at a supercritical state within intrusive rocks beneath volcanoes or calderas near the mountain ranges of northeastern Japan. If we could extract and use these crustal fluids, we could expect to achieve a high level of energy productivity. We have collated field data on high-temperature geothermal areas of the world, used these to produce simple models of their geothermal systems, and then explored their features in terms of the amount of potential power generation. For example, a potential of around 0.1 GW per reservoir over 30 years is expected in northeastern Japan if we consider supercritical reservoirs extending to a 5 km depth.
AB - It has been suggested that a large amount of crustal fluid is trapped at a supercritical state within intrusive rocks beneath volcanoes or calderas near the mountain ranges of northeastern Japan. If we could extract and use these crustal fluids, we could expect to achieve a high level of energy productivity. We have collated field data on high-temperature geothermal areas of the world, used these to produce simple models of their geothermal systems, and then explored their features in terms of the amount of potential power generation. For example, a potential of around 0.1 GW per reservoir over 30 years is expected in northeastern Japan if we consider supercritical reservoirs extending to a 5 km depth.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.geothermics.2019.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.geothermics.2019.07.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069811626
SN - 0375-6505
VL - 82
SP - 267
EP - 281
JO - Geothermics
JF - Geothermics
ER -
