The enhanced geothermal system (EGS) reservoir consists of a heterogeneous fracture network and rock matrix, and the heterogeneity of the reservoir has a significant influence on the system’s electricity generation performance. In this study, we numerically investigated the influence of reservoir heterogeneity on system production performance based on geological data from the Gonghe Basin geothermal field, and analyzed the main factors affecting production performance. The results show that with the increase of reservoir heterogeneity, the water conduction ability of the reservoir gradually reduces, the water production rate slowly decreases, and this causes the electric power to gradually reduce, the reservoir impedance to gradually increase, the pump power to gradually decrease and the energy efficiency to gradually increase. The fracture spacing, well spacing and injection temperature all have a significant influence on electricity generation performance. Increasing the fracture spacing will significantly reduce electric power, while having only a very slight effect on reservoir impedance and pump power, thus significantly decreasing energy efficiency. Increasing the well spacing will significantly increase the electric power, while having only a very slight effect on the reservoir impedance and pump power, thus significantly increasing energy efficiency. Increasing the injection temperature will obviously reduce the electric power, decrease the reservoir impedance and pump power, and thus reduce energy efficiency.
The constitutive equation of rock and soil has always been the core problem in rock and soil mechanics. Up to now, the nature of nonlinear shear strength of rock and soil has not been revealed. In many engineering practices, it is still considered that the failure mode of rock and soil is always shear failure, and Coulomb linear constitutive equation is adopted, or Mohr envelope is fitted by data. However, the constitutive equation of rock mass is nonlinear, and its failure mode is not only shear failure. A large number of single triaxial tests show that there is not only shear stress, but also tensile stress in the failure process of rock and soil. Theoretical and experimental research on failure mode of rock mass under pressure are one of the important means to improve and develop soil mechanics. It is important to understand the nonlinear nature of rock and soil constitutive equation to explore the energy variation and the distribution of tensile stress and shear stress in different failure modes of rock and soil.
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