This book highlights the importance of geothermal energy by studying its potential either alone or in combination with solar energy, focusing on its industrial application. Its starting point is to identify in a thorough and precise manner the barriers that hinder the implementation of geothermal energy in Spain and the European Union and the measures to be taken to achieve its diffusion and regular use.
Next, the book looks at how geothermal energy could contribute to this sector and to the desalination industry in particular, analysing a specific case in the south of Spain and extrapolating its results to a set of existing desalination plants in the Spanish Mediterranean with really interesting results in terms of economic amortisation and CO2 emissions avoided to the atmosphere.Beyond the desalination industry, this work demonstrates that almost 85% of the industrial processes of all industry in Spain can be carried out with very low, low and medium temperature geothermal resources and even applies its results to a set of existing solar plants, comparing in economic terms the results already obtained with those that would have been obtained if geothermal energy had been applied.
Author(s): Elisabet Palomo, Antonio Colmenar-Santos, Enrique Rosales-Asensio
Series: Green Energy and Technology
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 170
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Measures to Remove Geothermal Energy Barriers in the European Union
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Materials and Methods
2.3 Results and Discussion
2.3.1 Block 1: Level of Implementation
2.3.2 Block 2: Barriers
2.3.3 Block 3: Measures
2.3.4 Block 4: Advantages
2.3.5 Block 5: Closed Questions Questionnaire
2.4 Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
References
3 Thermal Desalination Potential with Parabolic Trough Collectors and Geothermal Energy in the Spanish Southeast
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Materials and Methods
3.2.1 Starting Data
3.2.2 Analytical Thermodynamic Modeling for the Solar Resource
3.2.3 Experimental Modeling of the Geothermal Resource.
3.2.4 Configurations of the Solar and Geothermal Resource to Feed the MED
3.3 Results and Discussion
3.3.1 An Approach to the Mix Solar-Geothermal Desalination Potential of the A.G.U.A Project
3.4 Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C. Geological and Hydrographical Conditions in Almeria
Appendix D
References
4 Economic and Environmental Benefits of Geothermal Energy in Industrial Processes
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Materials and Methods
4.2.1 Thermal Criterion
4.2.2 Geothermal Criterion
4.2.3 Business Criterion
4.2.4 Calculation of CO2 Emissions Avoidance to the Atmosphere
4.2.5 Calculation of the Return on Investment: Calculation of the Next Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, and Payback Period
4.3 Results and Discussion
4.3.1 Analysis of the Geothermal Potential of the SHIP-Plants Companies in Spain
4.4 Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix A
Classification of the Industrial Processes
Appendix B
B.1 Range 1
B.2 Range 2 and 3
B.3 Range 4
B.4 Range 5
Appendix C
Appendix D
Classification of Economic Activities
Appendix E
Energy Consumption by Sector of Activity in Spain
Appendix F. Information and Calculations for this Appendix Are in These Links:
References
5 Conclusions
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