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| Titel |
H2S and CO2 emissions from Cerro Prieto geothermal power plant, Mexico |
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Oscar Peralta, Luis Franco, Telma Castro, Yuri Taran, Ruben Bernard, Salvatore Inguaggiato, Rafael Navarro, Isabel Saavedra |
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EGU General Assembly 2014
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250094128
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-9522.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Cerro Prieto geothermal power plant has an operation capacity of 570 MW distributed in four powerhouses being the largest geothermal plant in Mexico. The geothermal field has 149 production wells. It is located in Cerro Prieto, Baja California, 30 km to the south of the Mexico-US border. Two sampling campaigns were performed in December 2012 and May 2013 where geothermal fluids from 46 production wells and 10 venting stacks were obtained and analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Average CO2 and H2S composition of samples from venting stacks were 49.4% and 4.79%, respectively.
Based on the chemical composition of samples, the geothermal power plant emits every day from venting stacks 869 tons of CO2, plus 68 tons of H2S, among other non-condensable gases. |
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