Chapter 7
Geothermal Energy
KEY CONCEPTS
- Geothermal energy and classification
- Geothermal resource utilization for direct heat applications and for electrical power
- Conversion technology for electrical power generation
- Prospects of geothermal fields in india
- Electrical and mechanical features of geothermal power plants and their operations
- Environmental and other associated problems
Geothermal energy is the clean and sustainable heat resource from the Earth. It ranges from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few kilometres beneath the earth’s surface and even deeper down to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.
The shallow ground of the earth’s surface maintains a nearly constant temperature between ...
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