Prime-mover dynamo plants – Miscellaneous – Drive gearing
Patent
1977-12-13
1979-02-27
Schaefer, Robert K.
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Miscellaneous
Drive gearing
60641, 290 52, 60398, F03G 700
Patent
active
041421086
ABSTRACT:
A geothermal energy recovery system of improved efficiency makes use of thermal energy stored in hot, solute-bearing well water as it is pumped upward to the earth's surface through an extended heat exchange element for continuously heating a downward flowing organic fluid to a supercritical state. Some of the energy of the latter fluid is used within the well for operating a turbine-driven pump for pumping the hot, solute-bearing well water at high pressure and always in liquid state to the earth's surface, where it is reinjected into the earth in another well. The temperature difference between the upward flowing brine and the downward flowing organic fluid is maintained finite in a predetermined manner along the subterranean extended heat exchange element. After driving the deep-well turbine-driven pump, the organic fluid arises to the earth's surface in a thermally insulated conduit; at the earth's surface, vapor turbine electrical power generation equipment is driven by the heated organic fluid which is then returned into the well for reheating in the extended heat exchanger.
Cefalo Albert P.
Redman John W.
Schaefer Robert K.
Sperry Rand Corporation
Terry Howard P.
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