Interpretation of gravity and magnetic data on the hot dry rocks (HDR) delineation for the enhanced geothermal system (E
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Interpretation of gravity and magnetic data on the hot dry rocks (HDR) delineation for the enhanced geothermal system (EGS) in Gonghe town, China Xueyu Zhao1,2 · Zhaofa Zeng1 · Yangang Wu1 · Rongqin He1 · Qiong Wu1 · Senqi Zhang3 Received: 29 May 2019 / Accepted: 10 August 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract As a new kind of renewable and environmental-friendly energy to generate electricity, hot dry rocks (HDR) geothermal reservoirs have been studied, along with the enhanced geothermal system (EGS). Geophysical methods have been used for the geological characterisation in different scales. The small-scale geophysical data are required for the local geological analysis so as to provide prior information for HDR modelling. Gonghe basin is in the northeast margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Several drilling records indicate that this basin is a potential HDR prospecting area with high geothermal gradient, high heat flow and widespread igneous rock distribution, especially the Gonghe town (Qiabuqia) along with its neighbouring area. Gravity and magnetic surveys were carried out here. To better understand the areal and vertical distribution of the HDR, the gravity and magnetic data were inverted using 2D manual inversion and 3D cross-gradient joint inversion based on the smooth l0 norm constraint of minimum support functional stabiliser. The 2D model showed the sedimentary cap with a thickness of around 1000–1500 m. Granites of different periods and intrusion process were widely distributed and underlined the sediments accompanied by some deep faults. As for the HDR delineation, 3D models showed a potential area along Gonghe town and Dongba. The density and susceptibility were estimated at over 2.6 g/cm3 and 4 × 10–3 SI separately, when referred with exiting HDR distribution along the geological profile of DR4–QR1–DR3–DR2 wells. The upper boundary of HDR was outlined at the depth of around 2000 m, and the volume of HDR was then estimated around 6100 km3 above 3500 m depth. The appearance of the density and susceptibility models was affected by the lithology, stress and hydrothermal alteration. More precise geophysical methods including the microgravity, seismic and MT (magnetotelluric) surveys would be more applicable at the HDR exploitation stage. Keywords Hot dry rocks (HDR) · Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) · Gravity and magnetic data · 2D manual modelling · 3D joint inversion · Gonghe area
Introduction
* Xueyu Zhao [email protected] * Zhaofa Zeng [email protected] 1
College of Geoexploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China
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School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
3
Center for Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, China Geological Survey, Baoding 071051, China
Hot dry rock (HDR) is a new kind of renewable and environmental-friendly energy to be exploited for electricity generation (Zarrouk and Moon 2014). Typically, this geo
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