| Title | Experiment of creating and operating the Paratunka geothermal power plant |
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| Authors | L.A.Ogurechnikov, Yu.M.Petin, D.L.Slavutskiy |
| Year | 2003 |
| Conference | International Geothermal Workshop, Russia |
| Keywords | Freon, turbine, cycle, geothermal power plant |
| Abstract | Russia was the first country to implement the idea of non-water vapors as the working substance of power and heat stations producing electric energy. In 1965 the freon power installation UEF-90/0,5 was manufactured and launched to generate electric energy. The warming medium of the low-temperature installation was the geothermal water of the Middle-Paratunka deposit with the temperature of 80? C. During 1967-1971 on Kamchatka peninsular relevant tests and studies of the cooling agent plant were being carried out in the Nature Testing Laboratory under the Institute of Thermal Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In all, in the process of the testing UEF-90/0,5 operated for 2140 hours including 820 hours under industrial regime. The ëParatunka experimentà showed that a safe power plant with a strong capacity was created. Successful utilization of a low-boiling substance at the Paratunka geothermal power plant widened the area of effective transformation of the low-potential thermal power into the electric power and enabled to heighten the efficiency of utilizing the power resources heat. |