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Research Papers

GreenFire Energy has authored, published, and presented a series of research papers regarding closed-loop geothermal, sCO2 power cycles and more. Most of these projects were conducted in close collaboration with national laboratories, major universities and experts in a wide variety of disciplines.

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Progress for Closed-Loop Geothermal Projects in Steam and Two-Phase Dominated Reservoirs, NGAP Conference 2022 (presentation)

Joseph Scherer
October 2022

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Progress for Closed-Loop Geothermal Projects in Steam and Two-Phase Dominated Reservoirs, NGAP Conference 2022

Joseph Scherer1, Alvaro Amaya1, Harish Chandrasekar1, Hollis Chin1, Glenn Golla1, Fred Manuel2,Robert Klenner3, Erlindo Angcoy, Jr.4
1GreenFire Energy Inc., 2Manuel Weyman Group, 3Baker Hughes, 4Energy Development Corporation
October 2022

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Progress for Closed-Loop Geothermal Projects in Steam and 2-Phase Dominated Reservoirs

Joseph Scherer a, Alvaro Amaya a, Harish Chandrasekar a, Fred Manuel b, Benson Gilbert c and Taylor Mattied

a GreenFire Energy, b Manuel Weyman Group, c California Energy Commission, d Baker Hughes

August 2022

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Progress for Closed-Loop Geothermal Projects in Steam and 2-Phase Dominated Reservoirs (presentation)

Joseph Scherer a, Alvaro Amaya a, Harish Chandrasekar a, Fred Manuel b, Benson Gilbert c and Taylor Mattied

a GreenFire Energy, b Manuel Weyman Group, c California Energy Commission, d Baker Hughes

August 2022

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Geothermal Energy as a Premium Power Source

John R. Muir, Andrew J. Van Horn, Joseph Hill
August 2022

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Geothermal Energy as a Premium Power Source (presentation)

John R. Muir, Andrew J. Van Horn, Joseph Hill
August 2022

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  • Closed-Loop Geothermal in Steam and 2-Phase Dominated Reservoirs, NGAP Conference 2021

    Alvaro Amaya, Harish Chandrasekar, Joseph Scherer, Brian Higgins
    October 2021

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  • Closed-Loop Geothermal in Steam Dominated Reservoirs, GRC Transactions, Vol 45, 2021

    Brian Higgins, Joseph Scherer, Alvaro Amaya, Harish Chandrasekar, and Andrew Van Horn
    October 2021

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  • The Benefits of Geothermal Power, Evolution of the U.S. Electricity Grid, and the Need for Geothermal Research

    Andrew Van Horn, Phillip Muller, Robert Pilko, Alvaro Amaya, John Muir, and Joseph Scherer
    October 2021

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  • Causes of California’s Rotating Outages and A Resilient, Reliable Remedy: Geothermal Power. IAEE Energy Forum, Second Quarter 2021

    Andrew Van Horn
    May 2021

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  • New Opportunities and Applications for Closed-Loop Geothermal Energy Systems

    Andrew Van Horn, Alvaro Amaya, Brian Higgins, John Muir, Joe Scherer, Robert Pilko, Malcolm Ross
    July 2020

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  • California Energy Commission, Consultant Report: Closed-Loop Geothermal Demonstration Project

    Joseph A. Scherer, Brian Higgins, John R. Muir, Alvaro Amaya
    June 2020

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  • GreenFire Energy Closed-Loop Geothermal Demonstration using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as Working Fluid

    Alvaro Amaya, Joseph Scherer, John Muir, Mehul Patel, and Brian Higgins
    February 10-12, 2020

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  • GreenFire Energy Closed-Loop Geothermal Demonstration at the Coso Geothermal Field

    Brian Higgins, John Muir, Joe Scherer, and Alvaro Amaya
    September, 2019

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  • The Effect of Well Density on Resource Depletion for a Vertical Closed-Loop sCO2 Geothermal Well System

    Don Fox and Brian Higgins
    October 25, 2016

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  • Is the Plastic Zone the New Geothermal Frontier? Geothermal Resources Council Bulletin

    John R. Muir
    May/June 2016

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  • Process Modeling of a Closed-Loop sCO2 Geothermal Power Cycle

    Brian Higgins
    March 30, 2016

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  • Numerical Simulation of Critical Factors Controlling Heat Extraction from Geothermal Systems Using a Closed-Loop Heat Exchange Method

    Curtis M. Oldenburg, Lehua Pan, Mark P. Muir, Alan D. Eastman, and Brian S. Higgins
    February 22-24, 2016

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  • GreenFire Energy Presentation for CEC Clean Energy Workshop, Feb 18 2016

    John R. Muir and Andrew J. Van Horn
    February 18, 2016

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  • Using Supercritical CO2 for Closed-Loop Geothermal

    Brian Higgins
    February 5, 2016

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