Power production from geothermal brine with the rotary separator turbine
Abstract
The use of the rotary separator turbine for geothermal power generation was investigated. A pilot scale unit was tested with a clean water/steam mixture and with geothermal brine/steam flows at East Mesa, California; Raft River, Idaho; and Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah. The test turbine demonstrated 34% power addition to the output of a single stage flash steam system. Furthermore, the test unit provided clean steam for a steam turbine and high pressure brine for reinjection
- Publication:
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Energy to the 21st century; Proceedings of the Fifteenth Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980iece.conf..788C
- Keywords:
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- Brines;
- Engine Tests;
- Geothermal Energy Conversion;
- Separators;
- Steam Turbines;
- Turbine Engines;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Engine Design;
- Entropy;
- Geothermal Technology;
- Pilot Plants;
- Steam Flow;
- Energy Production and Conversion