Thermal Drawdown-Induced Flow Channeling in Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs

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• 作者：Pengcheng Fu ; Yue Hao ; Stuart D. C. Walsh…
• 关键词：Geothermal ; Enhanced geothermal system ; Hot wet rock ; Thermal breakthrough ; Flow channeling ; THM model
• 刊名：Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：49
• 期：3
• 页码：1001-1024
• 全文大小：17,266 KB
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• 作者单位：Pengcheng Fu (1)
  Yue Hao (1)
  Stuart D. C. Walsh (1)
  Charles R. Carrigan (1)
  
  1. Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Geophysics and Geodesy
  Civil Engineering
  
• 出版者：Springer Wien
• ISSN：1434-453X

文摘

We investigate the flow-channeling phenomenon caused by thermal drawdown in fractured geothermal reservoirs. A discrete fracture network-based, fully coupled thermal–hydrological–mechanical simulator is used to study the interactions between fluid flow, temperature change, and the associated rock deformation. The responses of a number of randomly generated 2D fracture networks that represent a variety of reservoir characteristics are simulated with various injection-production well distances. We find that flow channeling, namely flow concentration in cooled zones, is the inevitable fate of all the scenarios evaluated. We also identify a secondary geomechanical mechanism caused by the anisotropy in thermal stress that counteracts the primary mechanism of flow channeling. This new mechanism tends, to some extent, to result in a more diffuse flow distribution, although it is generally not strong enough to completely reverse flow channeling. We find that fracture intensity substantially affects the overall hydraulic impedance of the reservoir but increasing fracture intensity generally does not improve heat production performance. Increasing the injection-production well separation appears to be an effective means to prolong the production life of a reservoir.