Research on Heat Exchange Characteristics Between Rock and High-Pressure Fluid Through the Cranny Among Dry Hot Rocks
Owing to energy crisis and global warming, people have to seek for new energy sources to substitute fossil fuels. Human being would maintain persistent development by means of new replaceable energy sources. As a kind of replaceable energy source, geothermal power is attracting people more and more attention. The technology of geothermal power generation has been gradually recognized and applied around the world. Heat exchange is the basic principle of geothermal power generation. A lot of heats stored in dry hot rocks under the ground can be carried out by high-pressure medium. The heat energy drives the steam turbine generator to work. Therefore, the heat exchange between rock and high-pressure fluid through the dry hot rock crannies is a key problem which needs to be solved. Based on the geological structure of rocks, the hypothetical cranny among dry hot rocks is put forward in this paper. The model of a single cranny is established too. The heat exchange between rock and high-pressure fluid through the dry hot rock crannies is analyzed based on the theory of heat transfer and hydrodynamics. The relationship among high-pressure fluid temperature, fluid velocity, dry hot rock crannies length and dry hot rock temperature field is obtained using the single cranny model. It may be useful for the development and application of geothermal resources.