Xi'an: Geothermal Water Recycling Should Be Strengthened

conservation office learned from the Xi'an: bearextraction; continuously increased after heating
Qu Yuan Jiang Chunxiao district heating and hotgeothermal tail water recharge test; use of pricing
water supply heat Xi'an shaoling Highlandas a means to force the use of geothermal wells,
Development Co., Ltd., using water source heattake water-saving measures. Xi'an shaoling
pump, the daily production of geothermal tailHighland Development Co., Ltd. is the heat
water (even if the used water) to After theprocessing sector in accordance with the
second heat exchanger recycling, until therequirements set geothermal water pumping wells
discharge temperature from 40 ? down to 10 ?,at the same time, set the recharge wells, but also
and then recharge to the ground throughto respond positively to the Government's call to
recharge wells. Stay in the residential area ofconserve water, investment 2.40 million in the city
more than 50,000 square meters of the case, thetake the lead in the acquisition of water source
company not only reduce the exploitation ofheat pump.
geothermal water per day is about 400 tons, butGround water recharge of the current technology
also extended the life of the geothermal wells,has been approved in the city in recent years,
excluding the sewage pipe and the surroundingnew geothermal wells in the mining sector to
environment, thermal pollution, improve thepromote, but in previous years, geothermal wells
enterprise economic benefits.approved in the promotion of the use of units
This is undoubtedly the sustainable use ofdifficult. Designed to recycle water, water source
geothermal water in an effective way. At thegeothermal heat pump tail spread is more difficult.
same time, this reporter was informed that, atThis is mainly due to recharge ground water and
present, Xi'an normal operation of geothermaladoption of water source heat pump, we must
wells in a total of 50. Among them, both the useincrease the number of millions of dollars of capital
of recycled water source heat pump geothermalinvestment. And even if no recharge, not using
water, but also through additional water rechargewater source heat pump, geothermal wells in a
to the underground, only Xi'an shaoling Plateau10-year life span is also ~ 15 years. Some people
Geothermal Development Co., Ltd. 1. Why arehold that only the cost of playing a well
both significant social economic benefits of savingapproximately 400 million, Adds recharge wells,
water and energy methods have not been widelyusing water source heat pump, the increase in the
promotion to date? This reporter interviews werecost of six years to recover the past, might as
conducted.well just play an exploration well, scrapped the
Xi'an geothermal exploration began in 1973. Afterresort to 1 In any case, it was exploitation of
1993, geothermal energy development andunderground water total.
utilization of Jianrugaochao. At that time,According to reports, the vast majority of
constrained by the technical level, ground watergeothermal wells, pumping is not only recharge,
extraction system, only the extraction wells, didbut also a waste of geothermal tail water, the
not recharge well. Can be used to recycle water,phenomenon has intensified the city's geothermal
water source heat pump tail, but also the last tenwater resources depletion. Since the last century
years, especially in the last five years, only insince the 90s, the city's geothermal wells
North America, China and Northern Europe theconstantly approval, kept scrapping, geothermal
United States, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden andwater level continued to decline. Among them,
other countries have made rapid development inmore geothermal wells in south-eastern suburbs,
the domestic use of water source heat pump tailsouthern suburbs and Western suburbs area,
water recycling less.ground water level dropped an average 15
Therefore, when the city's many enterprisesmeters to 20 meters, wellhead temperature fell
have to drill geothermal wells, carried out heating,by an average 3 ? ~ 5 ?. In a relatively small
bathing, physical therapy, leisure andnumber of geothermal wells, mining a lower
entertainment project, a large number ofintensity of the western suburbs, the northwest
geothermal tail water temperature is still about 35of the east suburb area, has yet to establish a
? on a wastewater discharge, and some of themlarge area of the head down, but exploitation of
due to thermal pollution caused by improperthe well head is still a single continuous downward
discharge, leading to serious waste of energy,trend, the annual average rate of decline of about
heat low rate of utilization of water resources.3 m ~ 5 meters.
In this case, in order to protect the exploitation ofProtection of non-renewable mineral resources,
geothermal water resources in the city sincenot only the need for greater investment, but
2002, has completed the hot water to householdsalso increase the development and utilization of
in the census, registration; serious waste ofnew energy-saving technologies. To work out
resources to the approval of the project inmore energy-efficient new technology, to extend
principle; reductions in Xi'an rapid decline in waterthe life of the geothermal wells, so that our
level of urban households in the region for waterendless stream of geothermal water.