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Course Name	Turkish	Jeotermal Rezervuar Mühendisliği
	English	Geotermal Reservoir Engineer.
Course Code	PET 502E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Abdurrahman Satman Emine Didem Korkmaz Başel
Course Objectives		To discuss the current state of geothermal energy in Turkey and in the world, 2. To teach the fundamentals of geothermal reservoir engineering, 3. To introduce the classification of reservoirs and the energy production methods, 4. To discuss the static and dynamic wellbore pressure and temperature profiles and the ways to model, 5. To teach the reinjection and its modeling, 6. To discuss the reservoir modeling approaches, 7. To study the renewability and sustainability aspects of geothermal fields.
Course Description		Geothermal energy in Turkey and in the world. Introduction to geothermal reservoir engineering. Thermodynamics and phase behavior. Classification of reservoirs based on the types of fluid contents and phase properties. Estimation of recoverable energy from reservoirs. Calculating wellbore temperatures, pressures and enthalpies in production and injection wells. Reinjection. Modeling the field production performance. Renewability and sustainability for geothermal fields.
Course Outcomes		Graduate students who successfully complete this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects; I. The current state of geothermal energy in Turkey and in the world, II. The fundamentals of geothermal reservoir engineering, III. The classification of reservoirs and the energy production methods, IV. The static and dynamic wellbore pressure and temperature profiles and the ways to model them, V. The reinjection and its modeling, VI. The reservoir modeling approaches, VII. The renewability and sustainability aspects of geothermal fields.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities		PC, library
Other
Textbook		(1) H.J.Jr. Ramey, Reservoir Engineering Assessment of Geothermal Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1981. (2) A. Satman, E.Didem. K. Başel Course Notes on PET502E, ITU Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department, 2018.
Other References		(1) M.A. Grant, I.G. Donaldson, P.F. Pixley, Geothermal reservoir Engineering, Academic Press, New York, 1982. (2) G. Axelsson, E. Gunnlaugsson, Long Term Monitoring of High- and Low-Enthalpy Fields Under Exploitation, CNR, Pisa, Italy, 2000.

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