A geothermal heat pump system includes a main heat exchanger, a borehole that penetrates an aquifer, and a ground loop. The main heat exchanger is configured to exchange heat between a ground loop flow and a heat distribution system. The ground loop includes a first and second groundwater heat exchangers, an input pipe and an output pipe. The groundwater heat exchangers are respectively contained in first and second zones within the borehole and are exposed to a groundwater flow within the aquifer. The input pipe is configured to deliver the ground loop flow from the main heat exchanger to the groundwater heat exchangers. The output pipe is configured to deliver the ground loop flow from the groundwater heat exchangers to the main heat exchanger. Heat exchange occurs between the ground loop flow within the groundwater heat exchangers and the groundwater flow.

A geothermal heat pump system includes a main heat exchanger, a borehole that penetrates an aquifer, and a ground loop. The main heat exchanger is configured to exchange heat between a ground loop flow and a heat distribution system. The ground loop includes a first and second groundwater heat exchangers, an input pipe and an output pipe. The groundwater heat exchangers are respectively contained in first and second zones within the borehole and are exposed to a groundwater flow within the aquifer. The input pipe is configured to deliver the ground loop flow from the main heat exchanger to the groundwater heat exchangers. The output pipe is configured to deliver the ground loop flow from the groundwater heat exchangers to the main heat exchanger. Heat exchange occurs between the ground loop flow within the groundwater heat exchangers and the groundwater flow.

A well completion to convert a hydrocarbon production well into a geothermal well includes flow tubes to transport a working fluid through the well and a heat exchanger at a downhole location coupled to the flow tubes to exchange heat of the formation at the downhole location with the working fluid. A heat exchange fluid surrounds the heat exchanger at the downhole location to be heated by the formation at the downhole location. The heat exchanger heats the working fluid to a state in which the working fluid rises to the surface. At the surface, a power plant uses the heated working fluid to generate work. The working fluid is then cooled and returned to the downhole location to repeat the work generation cycle.

A well completion to convert a hydrocarbon production well into a geothermal well includes flow tubes to transport a working fluid through the well and a heat exchanger at a downhole location coupled to the flow tubes to exchange heat of the formation at the downhole location with the working fluid. A heat exchange fluid surrounds the heat exchanger at the downhole location to be heated by the formation at the downhole location. The heat exchanger heats the working fluid to a state in which the working fluid rises to the surface. At the surface, a power plant uses the heated working fluid to generate work. The working fluid is then cooled and returned to the downhole location to repeat the work generation cycle.

A groundwater heat exchanger includes a distributor, a collector, a plurality of heat exchange pipes, and a housing. The distributor includes a first interior chamber and a first port. The collector includes a second interior chamber and a second port. Each heat exchange pipe includes a first end attached to the distributor and a second end attached to the collector, and defines a fluid passageway between the first and second interior chambers. The housing surrounds the heat exchange pipes and defines a groundwater passageway along the heat exchange pipes that is configured to receive a groundwater flow. In one example, a loop fluid flow received at the first port flows into the first interior chamber, then flows from the first interior chamber to the second interior chamber through the plurality of heat exchange pipes, and flows from the second interior chamber out the second port.

A device for energy transfer and for energy storage in a liquid reservoir has a water heat exchanger arranged on a bottom and has an air heat exchanger arranged above the water heat exchanger, wherein the water heat exchanger is arranged in a liquid reservoir that is surrounded by an inner shell which delimits the device with respect to an outer shell covering the inner shell from the bottom, wherein the outer shell is at least partially inserted into an earth layer, and the device is closed upwardly by a lid in such a way as to make it possible to generate a flow of air from an air inlet to an air outlet of the air heat exchanger.

A heat exchange circuit for a geothermal plant comprising a well excavated in the rock, a casing arranged inside the well, integral with it and comprising at least a first perforated section extending along a first portion of the well and at least a second perforated section extending along a second portion of the well, the perforated sections allowing the exit and the entry of a flow of geothermal fluid contained in an aquifer, an internal duct, located inside the casing in which a heat transfer fluid flows, wherein the well, the casing and the internal duct being arranged as a substantially closed ring, except for at least one surface interruption, at least one heat-exchange section at the bottom of the well between the first portion and the second portion of the well within which the geothermal fluid transfers heat to the heat transfer fluid.

A heat exchange circuit for a geothermal plant comprising a well excavated in the rock, a casing arranged inside the well, integral with it and comprising at least a first perforated section extending along a first portion of the well and at least a second perforated section extending along a second portion of the well, the perforated sections allowing the exit and the entry of a flow of geothermal fluid contained in an aquifer, an internal duct, located inside the casing in which a heat transfer fluid flows, wherein the well, the casing and the internal duct being arranged as a substantially closed ring, except for at least one surface interruption, at least one heat-exchange section at the bottom of the well between the first portion and the second portion of the well within which the geothermal fluid transfers heat to the heat transfer fluid.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of geothermal energy production using a dual thermosiphon heat exchange system. In one system two working fluids in which a thermosiphon flow is induced to recover thermal energy from depth. The system has a subterranean heat exchanger that is formed into an underground formation by drilling, and which is flooded with a first working fluid. Heat from the formation is transferred into the first working fluid. A recovery loop extends from the earth's surface and into the heat exchanger and carries a second working fluid. Heat from the formation is transferred into the first working fluid, and heat from the first working fluid is transferred into the second working fluid. The heat flow from the formation into the first working fluid and from the first working fluid into the second working fluid causes a thermosiphon flow in the working fluids.

System, method, and apparatus for harnessing geothermal power from superhot geothermal fluid (SHGF) and magma reservoirs. An exemplary embodiment is directed to a cased wellbore includes a well casing suspended within a borehole that extends between a surface and an underground reservoir of magma and a boiler casing housed within the well casing and extending between the surface and the underground reservoir of magma. The boiler casing has a first end submerged within the underground reservoir of magma and a terminal end opposite to the first end. The cased wellbore also includes a fluid conduit housed within the boiler casing and configured to deliver a liquid-phase fluid to the terminal end of the boiler casing. A temperature and a pressure at the terminal end of the boiler casing converts the liquid-phase fluid into a gas-phase fluid that travels through the boiler casing towards the surface. The cased wellbore also includes a well head connected to the first end of the boiler casing.