Zhen Qin successfully defends his master's thesis
Master's candidate of Sustainable Energy Engineering and dual-degree student from Tianjin University, Zhen Qin has just successfully delivered his master's thesis project on lumped parameter models for a two-phase geothermal reservoir with their multi-objective optimization at the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavik University.
Master's candidate of Sustainable Energy Engineering and dual-degree student from Tianjin University, Zhen Qin has just successfully delivered his master's thesis project on lumped parameter models for a two-phase geothermal reservoir with their multi-objective optimization at the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavik University.
In the past few years, the usage of lumped parameter models (LPM) or tank models in geothermal reservoir analysis and production planning has been rapidly increasing. In his project, Zhen Qin studied the responses of fluid in high-temperature geothermal reservoir using a generalized, two-phase lumped parameter model. These responses include parameters such as porosity, permeability, volume of rock system and initial conditions. In other words, Zhen Qin's models can be used to predict the properties of a high-temperature geothermal reservoir with considerable accuracy and less time as compared to numerical models. Specifically, he used the MATLAB software to build these models.
