• Geothermal Energy

Note: All publications are PDF documents.

Geothermal Research Program Annual Reports

• FY-2004 — 8.0MB
• FY-2003 — 3.4MB
• FY-2002 — 4.8MB
• FY-2001 — 1.1MB
• FY-2000 — 1.1MB
• FY-1999 — 6.8MB
• FY-1998 — 6.4MB

INL Reports

• The Future of Geothermal Energy – Impact of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) on the United States in the 21st Century, January 2007 — 14.1MB
• Monitoring Biological Activity at Geothermal Power Plants, Septemer 2005 — 1.6MB
• Improving Vortex Generators to Enhance the Performance of Air-Cooled Condensers in a Geothermal Power Plant, Septemer 2005 — 45.7MB
• Estimating Well Costs for Enhanced Geothermal System Applications, August 2005 — 2.5MB
• Design Considerations for Artificial Lifting of Enhanced Geothermal System Fluids, July 2005 — 769kB
• Finding Hidden Geothermal Resources in the Basin and Range Using Electrical Survey Techniques - A Computational Feasibility Study December 2004 — 46.5MB
• Parametric Sensitivity Study of Operating and Design Variables in Wellbore Heat Exchangers May 2004 — 916kB
• Development of New Geothermal Wellbore Holdup Correlations Using Flowing Well Data March 2004 — 2.4MB
• Rock Mechanics and Enhanced Geothermal Systems: A DOE-Sponsored Workshop to Explore Research Needs October 2003 — 127kB
• 2001 University Research Summaries — 9.6MB
• A Study of Production/Injection Data from Slim Holes and Large-Diameter Wells at the Okuaizu Geothermal Field, Tohoku, Japan June 2002 — 6.4MB
• An Integrated Approach to Reservoir Engineering at Pleasant Bayou Geopressured-Geothermal Reservior, December 1992 — 3.9MB

Other Reports

• Geothermal Resources of the Eastern United States, December 1979 — 862kB

INL Research Presented at the 2002 Annual GRC Meeting in Reno, NV

• An Inverse Model for TETRAD: Preliminary Results — 169kB
  - G. Michael Shook and J.L. Renner
• Evaluation of Fluorocarbon Tracer Retention in Dry and Wet Sand Column Tests — 193kB
  - Blake T. Maxfield, Daniel M. Ginosar and Ryan D. McMurtrey
• Evaluation of the Impact of Off-Design Operation on an Air-Cooled Binary Power Plant — 242kB
  - Greg L. Mines
• Internal Metallic Pipe Coatings for the Geothermal Industry — 917kB
  - Karen A Moore, Ronald E Mizia, and Ray A. Zatorski
• Investigation Of An Electrochemical Monitor For Tracking Biofilm Development At The Bonnett Geothermal Plant, Cove Fort, Utah — 234kB
  - P. A. Pryfogle, G. L. Mines, T. L. Sperry, and R. G. Allred
• Investigation Of Optical Technologies For Measuring Geothermal Fluid Properties — 733kB
  - J. K. Partin and J. R. Davidson
• Predicting Future Performance from Reservoir Management Cycling — 218kB
  - K. K. Bloomfield and G. L. Mines
• Preliminary Results of a High-Resolution Aeromagnetic Survey to Identify Buried Faults at Dixie Valley, Nevada — 545kB
  - R.P. Smith, V.J.S. Grauch, and D.D. Blackwell

Workshops

• “Dixie Valley Geothermal Research,” June 12 & 13, 2002 — 202kB with links to presentations (large PDF files)

Articles

• The U.S. Geothermal Industry: Three Decades of Growth — 196kB
  - Lynn McLarty and Marshall J. Reed
• Environmental Compatibility of Geothermal Energy — 149kB
  - Marshall J. Reed and Joel L. Renner
• Tracer Test Design and Sensitivity Studies of the Cove Fort Geothermal Resource Tracer Test — 105kB
  - K. K. Bloomfield, J. N. Moore, M. C. Adams, and T. L. Sperry
• Continual Removal of Non-Condensable Gases for Binary Power Plant Condensers — 64kB
  - Charles Mohr, Greg Mines, and Kit Bloomfield
• Predicting Thermal Velocities in Fractured Media from Tracer Tests — 55kB
  - G. Michael Shook
• Thermal Velocities Arising From Injection In 2-Phase And Superheated Reservoirs — 58kB
  - G. Michael Shook
• Geologic and Geophysical Evidence for Intra-basin and Footwall Faulting at Dixie Valley, Nevada — 239kB
  - Richard P. Smith, Kenneth W. Wisian, and David D. Blackwell
• Improving Air-Cooled Condenser Performance Using Winglets And Oval Tubes In A Geothermal Power Plant — 1.9MB
  - M. S. Sohal and J. E. O’Brien