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Geothermal Power Plants - Turbines

Calculations on how we formulated the figure of equivalent cars globally. For the Potential CO2 Savings for Mechanical Seal Usage in Industries.
Calculation A  
   
Calculate Pump Time  
500 Total Number of Rotating Equipment Per Site
5% Proportion Turbines
25 Total Number of Turbines Per Site
90% Utilisation
7,884 Utilisation Hours Per Year Per Turbine
197,100 Total Turbine Utilisation Hours Per Year Per Site
   
Calculate Pump Seal Energy Saving Usage  
100% % Turbines
25 Turbines per site
90 kg/hr LP steam loss per turbine
709,560 kg/year per turbine
0.18 kg CO2 eq per unit
129,140 kg/year CO2 eq per turbine
28 cars/year per turbine
3,228,498 kg CO2 eq per refinery
702 cars per refinery
   
Scale Up For Global Usage  
221 global number of sites
713,498,058 kg CO2 eq
155,108 total number of equivalent cars globally

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 Calculation Notes

We know that the US produces 3.639 GW from 64 sites and the global total is 12.7 Gw therefore we assume that there are approx 221 plants around the world. We also know that the biggest Geothermal site "Geyser's Geothermlal Complex California" produces 1205 Mw and Mitshbshi Hitachi's turbine output is a maximum of 110 Mw per turbine therefore the number of turbines is assumed to be 12

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