Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy (한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집)

Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy (한국지열·수열에너지학회)
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Review on the induced seismic event for artificial reservoir

인공저류층 생성을 위한 유도진동에 관한 사전연구

  • Jeon, Jong-Ug (Department of system development, INNOGEO Technologies Inc.) ;
  • Myoung, Woo-Ho (Department of geothermal development, INNOGEO Technologies Inc.) ;
  • Kim, Young-Deug (Department of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, INDUK University)
  • 전종욱 ((주)이노지오테크놀로지 시스템개발부) ;
  • 명우호 ((주)이노지오테크놀로지 지열개발부) ;
  • 김영득 (인덕대학 기계자동차학과)
  • Received : 2012.04.30
  • Accepted : 2012.05.25
  • Published : 2012.06.01
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Abstract

In many cases, geothemal wells will not be opened up a geothermal reservoir under such conditions that an extraction of geothermal energy is economically viable without any further measures. Geothermal wells often have to be stimulated, in order to increase productivity. For the non-volcanic area, such as Korea, the hydraulic stimulation is necessary to complete geothermal power plant. The analysis of induced seismic event showed that the thermal resource might have a much wider extent and a much higher generation potential than previously assumed. In order to record compressional and shear waves emitted during fracture stimulation, three-component geophones are placed in a seismometer. The recorded data from one seismometer is the convolution of the source magnitude, the transmission media, and the sensitivity of the instrument.

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