Chapter 9
Advanced Geothermal Energy Conversion Systems
“Why should we expect nature to be interested either positively or negatively in the purposes of human beings, particularly purposes of such unblushingly economic tinge?”
Percy W. Bridgman, on the thermodynamic prohibition against perpetual motion machines – 1941
9.2 Hybrid single-flash and double-flash systems
9.2.1 Integrated single- and double-flash plants
9.2.2 Combined single- and double-flash plants
9.3 Hybrid flash-binary systems
9.3.1 Combined flash-binary plants
9.3.2 Integrated flash-binary plants
9.4 Example: Integrated flash-binary hybrid system
9.5.1 Axial-flow impulse turbine
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