TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a Coupled Multi-Field Utah FORGE Native State Model
T2 - 2022 Geothermal Rising Conference: Using the Earth to Save the Earth, GRC 2022
AU - Liu, Ruijie
AU - Podgorney, Rob
AU - Finnila, Aleta
AU - Xing, Pengju
AU - McLennan, John
AU - Moore, Joe
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this work was provided by the U.S. DOE under grant DE-EE0007080 “Enhanced Geothermal System Concept Testing and Development at the Milford City, Utah FORGE Site”.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Geothermal Resources Council. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) site is a multi-year initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy for enhanced geothermal system research and development. The site is located on the margin of the Great Basin near the town of Milford, Utah. Following the Phase 2 native state mode and based on a large amount of new and updated subsurface data of the site, a revised three-dimensional coupled Thermal-Hydraulic Mechanical (THM) model has been developed. This model initially targets to identify the initial states of the geothermal reservoir and is further calibrated to predict the change of the deformation, mechanical stress, pore pressure, and temperature of the site resulting from the field operations. As a complex coupled three-field approach is adopted, an appropriate setup for boundary conditions for the model is paramount and will be discussed. The model is calibrated using large scale parallel computing and field temperature data measured at several deep wells (58-32, 56-32, 78-32, 16(A)78-32) at Utah FORGE site.
AB - The Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) site is a multi-year initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy for enhanced geothermal system research and development. The site is located on the margin of the Great Basin near the town of Milford, Utah. Following the Phase 2 native state mode and based on a large amount of new and updated subsurface data of the site, a revised three-dimensional coupled Thermal-Hydraulic Mechanical (THM) model has been developed. This model initially targets to identify the initial states of the geothermal reservoir and is further calibrated to predict the change of the deformation, mechanical stress, pore pressure, and temperature of the site resulting from the field operations. As a complex coupled three-field approach is adopted, an appropriate setup for boundary conditions for the model is paramount and will be discussed. The model is calibrated using large scale parallel computing and field temperature data measured at several deep wells (58-32, 56-32, 78-32, 16(A)78-32) at Utah FORGE site.
KW - FORGE
KW - Falcon
KW - Geothermal Reservoir
KW - Moose
KW - Native State Model
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85158086609
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85158086609
T3 - Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
SP - 589
EP - 596
BT - Using the Earth to Save the Earth - 2022 Geothermal Rising Conference
PB - Geothermal Resources Council
Y2 - 28 August 2022 through 31 August 2022
ER -