Tracer Testing At Coso Geothermal Area (1993)

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

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Exploration Activity: Tracer Testing At Coso Geothermal Area (1993)

Exploration Activity Details
Location	Coso Geothermal Area
Exploration Technique	Tracer Testing
Activity Date	1993
Usefulness	useful
DOE-funding	Unknown

 

Exploration Basis

To determine the steam and water mass flow rate

 

Notes

The method involves precisely metered injection of liquid and vapor phase tracers into the two-phase production pipeline and concurrent sampling of each phase downstream of the injection point. Subsequent chemical analysis of the steam and water samples for tracer content enables the calculation of mass flowrate for each phase given the known mass injection rates of tracer.

 

References

• Hirtz, P.; Lovekin, J.; Copp, J.; Buck, C.; Adams, M.   (28 January 1993) Enthalpy and mass flowrate measurements for two-phase geothermal production by Tracer dilution techniques