Publication detail

Geothermal Power Potential Assessment in North Eastern Morocco

Barkaoui, A.E. Zarhloule, Y. Varbanov, P.S. Klemeš, J.J.

English title

Geothermal Power Potential Assessment in North Eastern Morocco

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

The volumetric method is one of the most applicable methods of low-temperature geothermal resource assessment. While applying volumetric method, the values of uncertain parameters should be determined. An add-in software program to Microsoft EXCEL, @RISK, is used as a tool to define the uncertainties of the parameters in the volumetric equation. Monte Carlo simulation is used as the probabilistic approach for the assessment of low temperature in north-eastern Morocco. In this region, the utilisation of this resource is limited. Assessment studies using triangular and uniform distribution type functions for each parameter are used to give the mean values of recoverable heat energy of the field.

English abstract

The volumetric method is one of the most applicable methods of low-temperature geothermal resource assessment. While applying volumetric method, the values of uncertain parameters should be determined. An add-in software program to Microsoft EXCEL, @RISK, is used as a tool to define the uncertainties of the parameters in the volumetric equation. Monte Carlo simulation is used as the probabilistic approach for the assessment of low temperature in north-eastern Morocco. In this region, the utilisation of this resource is limited. Assessment studies using triangular and uniform distribution type functions for each parameter are used to give the mean values of recoverable heat energy of the field.

Keywords in English

Distribution functions; Geothermal fields; Intelligent systems; Monte Carlo methods; Temperature; Uncertainty analysis; Geothermal power; Low temperatures; Low-temperature geothermal; Probabilistic approaches; Uncertain parameters; Uniform distribution; Volumetric equation; Volumetric methods; Geothermal energy;

Released

01.10.2017

Publisher

Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC

ISBN

978-88-95608-51-8

ISSN

2283-9216

Book

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Number

61

Pages from–to

1627–1632

Pages count

6

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT146103,
  author="Jiří {Klemeš} and Petar Sabev {Varbanov},
  title="Geothermal Power Potential Assessment in North Eastern Morocco",
  booktitle="Chemical Engineering Transactions  ",
  year="2017",
  number="61",
  month="October",
  pages="1627--1632",
  publisher="Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC",
  isbn="978-88-95608-51-8",
  issn="2283-9216"
}