Power generation model based on a transcritical cycle with an increasing-pressure endothermic process using CO2-based mixture working fluids for an enhanced geothermal system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11549495-B2
Application number	US-202117337225-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 2, 2021
Priority date	Sep 16, 2020
Publication date	Jan 10, 2023
Grant date	Jan 10, 2023

Abstract

It is provided a power generation model based on a transcritical cycle with an increasing-pressure endothermic process using CO2-based mixture working fluids for an enhanced geothermal system, including a geothermal water circulation, a mixture working fluid circulation and a cooling water circulation. A coaxial pipe-in-pipe downhole heat exchanger is provided in the mixture working fluid circulation. Innovations are reflected in that an increasing-pressure endothermic process is achieved due to making use of gravity and hence increase a heat quantity absorbed in a cycle, thereby improving power generation quantity of the cycle; and a binary mixture working fluid composed of CO2 and an organic working fluid is adopted to realize a transcritical power cycle with an increasing-pressure endothermic process and a decreasing-temperature exothermic process, thereby effectively reducing irreversibility of a heat transfer between a working fluid and a heat source and improving power cycle efficiency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power generation model based on a transcritical cycle with an increasing-pressure endothermic process using CO 2 -based mixture working fluids for an enhanced geothermal system, comprising a geothermal water circulation, a mixture working fluid circulation and a cooling water circulation, wherein a coaxial pipe-in-pipe downhole heat exchanger is provided in the mixture working fluid circulation; the mixture working fluid circulation adopts a binary mixture composed of CO 2 and an organic working fluid as a mixture working fluid, the mixture working fluid being selected from a group consisting of CO 2 /R32, CO 2 /R1270, CO 2 /R161, CO 2 /R1234yf, CO 2 /R134a, CO 2 /R152a, and CO 2 /R1234ze; and
wherein the power generation model comprises a geothermal production well, the coaxial pipe-in-pipe downhole heat exchanger, a turbine, a condenser, a working fluid pump, a geothermal water injection pump and a geothermal water reinjection well; the coaxial pipe-in-pipe heat exchanger is placed in the geothermal production well; an outlet of the coaxial pipe-in-pipe heat exchanger is connected to an inlet of the turbine; an outlet of the turbine is connected to an inlet of the condenser; an outlet of the condenser is connected to an inlet of the working fluid pump; an outlet of the working fluid pump is connected to an inlet of the coaxial pipe-in-pipe heat exchanger; an outlet of the geothermal production well is connected to an inlet of the geothermal water injection pump; an outlet of the geothermal water injection pump is connected to an inlet of the geothermal water reinjection well.

2. The power generation model according to claim 1 , wherein a mixing ratio of the mixture working fluid is within a range of 0.1 to 0.9; an injection pressure of the mixture working fluid is within a range of 10 MPa to 18 MPa; a mass flowrate of the mixture working fluid is within a range of 1 kg/s to 10 kg/s.

3. The power generation model according to claim 1 , wherein the inlet of the condenser comprises a mixture working fluid inlet and a cooling water inlet, the outlet of the condenser comprises a mixture working fluid outlet and a cooling water outlet; the outlet of the turbine is connected to the mixture working fluid inlet of the condenser, the mixture working fluid outlet of the condenser is connected to the inlet of the working fluid pump.

4. The power generation model according to claim 1 , wherein the condenser is connected to an external cooling device.

5. The power generation model according to claim 3 , wherein the condenser is connected to an external cooling device.

6. The power generation model according to claim 4 , wherein the cooling device is a cooling tower.

7. The power generation model according to claim 5 , wherein the cooling device is a cooling tower.

Assignees

• Univ Tianjin

Inventors

• Lu Xinli
• Geng Changyou
• Zhang Wei
• Zhang Jiaqi
• Yu Hao

Classifications

• F24T50/00

  Geothermal systems  (for producing mechanical power from geothermal energy F03G4/00) · CPC title

• Y02E10/10

  Geothermal energy · CPC title

• F24T10/20

  using underground water as working fluid; using working fluid injected directly into the ground, e.g. using injection wells and recovery wells · CPC title

• F03G4/035

  of the Organic Rankine Cycle [ORC] type or the Kalina Cycle type · CPC title

• F01K25/065

  with an absorption fluid remaining at least partly in the liquid state, e.g. water for ammonia (F01K5/00 takes precedence) · CPC title