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Meeting Future Energy Demand of Saudi Arabia through High Heat Generating Granites

International Journal of Earth science and Engineering • 2015
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Authors D. Chandreasekharam; Aref Lashin; Nassir Al Arifli, Hemant K. Singh
Keywords Saudi Arabia, High heat generating granite, EGS
Journal International Journal of Earth science and Engineering
Publisher www.cafetinnova.org
Volume 7
Issue 1
Pages 01-04
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
Supplementary Materials Not Available
Abstract
In Saudi Arabia has extensive high heat generating granites along the west coast shield. The heat generated by these granites varies from about 2 to 134 μW/m3. Exploiting the heat from these granites through engineered geothermal system (EGS) technology can generate about 120 x 106 terawatt hour of electricity. By adopting clean development mechanism through geothermal, the country can offset CO2 emission and save billions of oil and gas and also can supply large volume of fresh water through desalination process.