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25 January 2007 -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced it has signed a shared-cost Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to work on the production of commercial electricity using hot water produced during the process of oilfield production. The project will be conducted at the DOE's Rocky Mountain Oil Test Center (RMOTC), near Casper Wyoming, and will use an Ormat organic rankine cycle (ORC) power generation system to generate electricity.
The test will use a commercial air-cooled, skid mounted standard design ORC system. Ormat will supply the ORC power unit while the DOE will install and operate the facility for a 12- month period. Ormat and the DOE will share the total cost of the test and the study, with Ormat providing approximately two thirds of the $1 million in funding.
According to Ormat, there are two large unutilized sources of hot water at the RMOTC Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3, which produces water in excess of degrees Fahrenheit and at flow rates sufficient for generation of approximately 200 kW. The project will consist of the installation, testing and evaluation of a binary geothermal power unit in the field near these hot water sources. The ORC power unit will be interconnected into the field electrical system and the energy produced will be used by RMOTC and monitored for reliability quality.
Ormat said that similar ORC units are in operation using 210 F geothermal water in Austria, Nevada and Thailand.
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