STEP BY STEP GEOTHERMAL ORIFICE PLATE DETAIL

AND CALCULATION METHOD COMPARISON

Discharge test is one of most important action that should be done before a
geothermal well will be produced. Discharge test as an important action for field
development also could provide fluid flow characteristic data such as mass flow
rate total, liquid enthalpy, heat flow rate, and dryness. Furthermore, all data that
provided by the test resulting production capacity at megawatt thermal. One of the
discharge tests method is orifice method with orifice meter tool. In terms of
calculating data at discharge test should be carried out in detail by reducing
assumptions that allow the result will be inaccurate due to the uncertainties.
Discharge test calculation data from well X consider parameters such as orifice’s
diameter and pipe’s diameter correction for any difference in tool’s material,
atmospheric pressure (Patm) changes for any difference in sea surface elevation
altitude, heat specific ratio numbers for each upstream pressure at different
atmospheric condition, expansibility factor (ϵ), and tapping orifice graphs types
selecting to determine basis coefficients (c) based on different orifice’s diameter
and pipe’s diameter comparison (m) to obtain mass flow rate. Furthermore, this
mass flow rate data must be corrected again with total correction factor (Z) based
on the number of correction factor with Reynold Number (ZR) and pipe’s diameter
correction factor (ZD). Mass flow rate result from calculating with correction Z and
ϵ above thereafter compared with discharge test orifice method calculation in
general step that known generally with assumed correction factor and assumed
correction number. It is important to know thoroughly at processing and calculating
discharge test results data. Errors in these processes will lead to uncertainty,
inaccurate data result, and decreasing interest number on that geothermal well.

Keywords : Discharge Test, Production , Orifice Plate, Method Comparison

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