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Geothermal Fluids in Saline Systems

Geothermal Fluids in Saline SystemsGeothermal fluids are usually highly mineralized reflecting the long-term mineral-fluid interactions. This salinity affects not only chemical reactions and impedes chemical analysis and modelling, but the high salinity can cause severe problems due to the formation of mineral scalings and/or corrosion. Understanding these reactions is crucial to guarantee the long-term efficiency and sustainability of geothermal power plants. This special issue is a collection of studies presented at the joint KIT-GFZ-UFZ workshop dealing with field analysis, lab experiments, and geochemical modeling on the salinity effect.

Edited by: Simona Regenspurg and Thorsten Schäfer

  1. Reduction or prevention of scaling is commonly achieved by injecting scaling inhibitors into the geothermal circuit. Inhibitor-efficiency tests can be carried out in static or dynamic experiment set-ups allowi...

    Authors: Joerg Zotzmann, Alexandra Vetter and Simona Regenspurg
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2018 6:18
  2. Leaching tests with synthetic brines (25 g/L NaCl) between 25 °C and 90 °C were performed under oxic and anoxic conditions over 7 days on two pyrite-bearing siliciclastic rocks from the Lower Jurassic Hettangi...

    Authors: Daniel Richard Müller and Simona Regenspurg
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2017 5:25
  3. It is commonly known that heat extraction and decompression can lead to mineral precipitation and reservoir clogging in geothermal systems. In the Upper Rhine Graben, the precipitating minerals are mainly bari...

    Authors: Pia Orywall, Kirsten Drüppel, Dietmar Kuhn, Thomas Kohl, Michael Zimmermann and Elisabeth Eiche
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2017 5:20

    The Correction to this article has been published in Geothermal Energy 2017 5:23

  4. To simulate the growth of geological veins, it is necessary to model the crystal shape anisotropy. Two different models, classical and natural models, which incorporate the surface energy anisotropy into the obje...

    Authors: Oleg Tschukin, Alexander Silberzahn, Michael Selzer, Prince G. K. Amos, Daniel Schneider and Britta Nestler
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2017 5:19
  5. Earth’s crust offers a vast resource of heat that can be used and converted into energy both for electricity and heating/cooling purposes. The utilization of this geothermal energy can make an important contri...

    Authors: Simona Regenspurg and Thorsten Schäfer
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2017 5:18
  6. The determination of reservoir temperatures represents a major task when exploring geothermal systems. Since the uncertainties of classical solute geothermometry are still preventing reliable reservoir tempera...

    Authors: Fabian Nitschke, Sebastian Held, Ignacio Villalon, Thomas Neumann and Thomas Kohl
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2017 5:12
  7. Decreasing production rates and massive precipitation of native copper (Cu(0)) were observed in the production well at the geothermal research facility Groß Schönebeck (Germany). The Cu precipitates filling up...

    Authors: Simona Regenspurg, Ives Geigenmüller, Harald Milsch and Michael Kühn
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2017 5:11
  8. In this study, we report results of the analysis of a particularly interesting scaling sample from the geothermal plant in Neustadt-Glewe in northern Germany, which contained 19% Galena (PbS) and 81% of a hete...

    Authors: Frank Heberling, Dieter Schild, Detlev Degering and Thorsten Schäfer
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2017 5:9

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