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Table 2 A listing of software reported in the technical literature for computing geothermal reservoir temperatures
No | Open-source computer programs | Computational platform/language | Number of gas geothermometers | Working temperature interval (°C) | Gas concentration units | Geothermal reservoir-typea | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CO2B | Fortran | 1 | 140–370 | % mol | VAPDR | Saracco and D’Amore (1989) |
2 | Spreadsheet application | Excel | 5 | 100–350 | % mol | LIQDR and VAPDR | Powell and Cumming (2010) |
3 | GasGeo | Visual Basic | 21 | 100–350 | mmol/kg; mole fraction; mmol/mol; %mol; %vol | LIQDR and VAPDR | Pandarinath et al. (2011) |
4 | EQUILGAS | Visual Fortran | 3 | 100–350 | % vol | LIQDR | Barragán et al. (2016) |
5 | GasGeoPlus | Fortran | 21 | 100–350 | mmol/kg; mole fraction; mmol/mol; %mol; %vol | LIQDR and VAPDR | Pérez-Zárate et al. (2019) |
6 | SYS_GASCHEM | Perl | 21 | 100–350 | mmol/kg; mole fraction; mmol/mol; %mol; %vol | LIQDR and VAPDR | GarcÃa-Mandujano (2019) |
7 | GaS_GeoT | Java | 8 | 170–374 | mmol/mol | LIQDR and VAPDR | This work |