US 12,188,691 B2
GeoHeat harvesting enhancement
Piotr D. Moncarz, Palo Alto, CA (US); Sharat Vishwanath Chandrasekhar, Dallas, TX (US); and Poodipeddi V. Suryanarayana, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to XGS Energy, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by Geothermic Solution, LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/970,892.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/270,191, filed on Oct. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0130246 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. F24T 50/00 (2018.01); F24T 10/10 (2018.01)
CPC F24T 50/00 (2018.05) [F24T 10/10 (2018.05)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of installing a closed loop geoheat harvesting system, comprising:
obtaining data from a deployment location;
calculating heat flux in a model using a finite volume (3D) numerical calculation, wherein the model calculates the heat flux as a function of time at a wall of a casing of the closed loop geoheat harvesting system and/or the model further calculates heat flux from the formation into a mass flow of a working fluid in the closed loop geoheat harvesting system;
using the data in the model to determine one or more configuration and/or operational parameter for a closed loop geoheat system, wherein the model further uses determined or calculated thermal conductivity of a formation at the deployment location; and
constructing and assembling the closed loop geoheat system based on the configuration and/or operational parameters determined by the model.