Geothermal Resources
Council announces the best presentations showcased at the 39th GRC Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, USA
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The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) has announced the outstanding technical
presentations from the global geothermal community for 2015.
The selections were made in each of the GRC Technical Sessions
held in late September at the 39th GRC Annual Meeting in Reno , Nevada ,
USA
Click through for the winning presentations in each session:
Basin &
Range - A Case History of the Dixie Valley
County Update
- The United States
of America Country Update 2015, Boyd, Toni & Sifford, Alex & Lund, John W.
Direct Use 1 -
Point of Use Automated Irrigation System for
Enhanced Bottom Heat Agriculture Using Waste Steam Condensate in New York City and Waste Geothermal Hot Water and Steam
Condensate in Iceland
Direct Use 2 -
Accelerated Plant Growth Results from An Intensive
Shallow Bottom Heat System Using Waste Geothermal Hot Water and Steam
Condensate in Iceland
Drilling 1 - Use of Carbon Microfibers for Reinforcement of Calcium Aluminate - Class F Fly Ash Cement Activated With Sodium
Metasilicate at up to 300°C, Pyatina, Tatiana &
Sugama, Toshifumi
Drilling 2 - Optimizing Geothermal Drilling With Petroleum Technology, Denninger, Kate & Eustes, Alfred & Baker, Walt & Bolton,
Dan & Bell, Jason & Bell, Sean & Jacobs, Amelia & Nagandran,
Uneshddarann & Quick, Ralph & Tilley, Mitch & Visser, Charles
East African
Rift - Stakeholder Engagement Through Participatory Research: A Case Study of
Eburru Geothermal Wellhead Generator in Nakuru County, Kenya, Barasa, Philip J. & Mathenge, Rose W.
EGS 1 - Permeability Measurement of Thermally Fractured Granite Under Confining
Stress at 350- 450°C, Numakura, Tatsuya
EGS 2 - Completion Design Considerations for a Horizontal Enhanced Geothermal
System, Olson, Jeffrey & Eustes, Alfred &
Fleckenstein, William & Eker, Erdinc & Baker, Reed & Augustine , Chad
EGS 3 - Production Well Targeting at Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration, Cladouhos, Trenton & Swyer, Michael W. & Uddenberg, Matthew E.
& Petty, Susan & Nordin, Yini
Exploration 1
- Will Stratigraphic Reservoirs Provide the
Next Big Increase in U.S.
Exploration 2
- Naval Air Station Fallon Mainside: An
Update of Geothermal Exploration, Blake, Kelly
& Tiedeman, Andrew & Sabin, Andrew & Lazaro, Michael & Meade,
Dave & Huang, Wei- Chuang
Geochemistry -
Applications of Downhole Lithogeochemistry to
Geothermal Exploration, Libbey, Ryan &
Williams- Jones, A.E.
Geology 1 - Examining Subsurface Processes Captured in Geothermal Host Rocks Using
Computerised Tomography and Scanning Electron Microscopy, Lynne, Bridget Y.
Geology 2 - The Structural Controls of the Black Warrior Blind Geothermal System, Truckee Range ,
Washoe- Churchill Counties ,
NV , USA
Geophysics 1 -
Separating Intrinsic From Scattering Seismic Wave
Attenuation From Sonic Logs in a Geothermal Field, Duran, Evert & Van Wijk, Kasper & Adam, Ludmila & Wallis,
Irene
Geophysics 2 -
Observations and Implications of Manetotelluric
Data For Resolving Stratigraphic Reservoirs Beneath the Black Rock Desert, Utah, Hardwick, Christian & Allis, Rick & Wannamaker, Philip
Oil & Gas
- A Basin- Scaled Geothermal Assessment of
Co- Produced Waters in Oil and Gas Fields: Uinta Basin , Utah , USA
Play Fairway 1
- Hydrogeologic Windows: Detection of Blind
and Traditional Geothermal Play Fairways in Southwestern New Mexico Using
Conservative Element Concentrations and Advective- Diffusive Solute Transport, Person, Mark & Kelley, Shari & Kelley, Richard & Karra,
Satish & Harp, Dylan & Witcher, James & Bielicki, Jeffrey &
Sutula, Glenn & Middleton, Richard & Pepin, Jeff
Play Fairway 2
- Geothermal Play- Fairway Analysis of
Washington State Prospects, Forson, Corina &
Swyer, Michael W. & Schmalzle, Gina M. & Czajkowski, Jessica L. &
Cladouhos, Trenton T. & Davatzes, Nicholas & Norman, David K. &
Cole, Ryan A.
Play Fairway 3
- Snake River Plain Play Fairway
Analysis- Phase 1 Report, Shervais, John W. & Glen, Jonathan M. & Liberty, Lee M. &
Dobson, Patrick & Gasperikova, Erika & Sonnenthal, Eric & Visser,
Charles & Nielson, Dennis & Garg, Sobodh & Evans, James P. &
Siler, Drew & DeAngelo, Jacob & Athens, Noah & Burns, Erick
Power Plants 1
- Thrust Bearing Load Observations in Deep-
Well Enclosed Lineshaft Pumps, Reede, Chris
& Doumanidis, Haris & Aureli, Matteo
Power Plants 2
- Geothermal Binary Power Plants at Raft River ,
San Emidio and Neal Hot Springs
Power Plants 3
- DOE - GTO Low Temperature Project Case
Study, Williams, Tom & Mines, Greg
Power Plants 4
- Tubular Biofilm Reactor for Hydrogen
Sulphide Removal From Geothermal Cooling Water, Bierre, Emily & Fullerton, Rob
Regulatory - Alternative Water Policy Assessment for Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- A Case Study, Schroeder, Jenna N. & Horner, Robert M. & Harto, Christopher
B. & Clark, Corrie E.
Reservoir Engineering/Modeling
- DNA- Encapsulated Silica Nanoparticle
Tracers for Fracture Characterization, Zhang, Yuran
& Manley, Timothy & Li, Kewen & Horne, Roland
Resource
Assessment - Geothermal Prospector:
Supporting Geothermal Analysis Through Spatial Data Visualization and Querying
Tools, Getman, Daniel & Anderson, Arlene &
Augustine , Chad
Scaling &
Mineral Extraction - Assessment of CHIM- XPT
and Watch in Predicting the Calcite Scaling Potential of Geothermal Wells, Clemente, Vicente C. & Faja, Kenneth S. & Reed, Mark H. &
Daco- AG, Lorena M. & Tamboboy, Remal J.T.
Sedimentary
Basins - Sedimentary Geothermal
Resources in the Piceance Basin , Colorado
Tools - Ultra- High Temperature (250°C+) and Wide Operating Temperature Range
Ultracapacitor Enabling Downhole Power Source For Geothermal Exploration, Brambilla, Nicolo & Martini, Fabrizio
The GRC has added all the papers associated with the
technical session presentations to the GRC Geothermal Library at
www.geothermal-library.org. Papers from the 2015 Annual Meeting are available
for members only. Papers from previous years are available for all.
In the next few weeks the GRC will issue a call for papers
to be presented at next year’s 40th GRC Annual Meeting taking place October
23-26, 2016 at the Sacramento Convention Center, California, USA.
Additional information about paper requirements and
submission forms will be found at www.geothermal.org/meet-new.html
or by contacting the GRC at (530) 758-2360.
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