FINAL ASSASMENT

Gothermal Power Plant

Milford, Utah, USA
Blundell Plant

TIARA NOOR UTAMI 371410000

BIDARA KALIANDRA 37141000
HUSNIA NUR ANNISA 3714100037

DEPARTEMEN TEKNIK GEOFISIKA

INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI SEPULUH NOPEMBER SURABAYA
Geothermal Power Plant
Milford, Utah, USA
Blundell Plant

Fig 1. The Blundell Geothermal Power Plant

The Blundell Geothermal Power Plant is a singleflash plant with a net capacity of 23 MWe
(26 MWe gross). The geothermal brine is produced from four wells that tap highly fractured
crystalline rock of the Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal resource. This geothermal resource is a
hydrothermal field where groundwater is heated by underlying magma. Production depths generally
range from between 1,253 to 7,321 ft (382-2,231 m) at reservoir temperatures of 464F to 514F
(240-268C)(Blackett, et al., 2004).

The Blundell Plant, named after a former president of Utah Power, is located in Beaver
County, UT, approximately 15 miles northeast of the town of Milford and about 165 miles south of
Salt Lake City. The plant itself is currently owned by PacifiCorp (who merged with Scottish Power in
1999), but the geothermal field is owned by Intermountain Geothermal Company, a subsidiary of
California Energy Company. The Blundell project was completed in June 1984, at which time the
geothermal field was developed by Phillips Petroleum and the power generation plant was built by
Utah Power & Light (UP&L). The plants claim to fame was that it was the first commercially-
produced geothermal power in the United States outside of California. The project earned the U.S.
Department of Energys innovation award in 1984

LOCATION

The Blundell Power Plant is located in the Roosevelt Hot Springs Known Geothermal Area (KGRA), on
the eastern margin of the Basin and Range Province near the Colorado Plateau. It sits on the
Roosevelt Hot Springs, a known geothermal resource area that spans just more than 30,000 acres.
The plant is on 2,000 acres of private and U.S. Bureau of Land Management land, 800 acres of Utah
State School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration and 400 acres they own near Milford, Utah.
GEOLOGY STRUCTURE

Fig 2. Blundell Geothermal Location

The commercial geothermal reservoir is associated with the Negro Mag and Opal Dome faults.
Production from the geothermal system is primarily from highly fractured Tertiary granite and
Precambrian metamorphic rocks bounded to the west by the Opal Dome fault, to the north by the
Negro Mag fault, and to the east by the Mineral Mountains.

The Mineral Mountains, the first range west of the Wasatch front, are a north-south trending
granitic intrusive complex intruded into Precambrian rocks beginning about 25 million years ago.
Subsequent rhyolitic volcanism occurred beginning about eight million years ago and ended about
500,000 years ago, resulting in the formation of rhyolite domes in the central Mineral Mountains.

SINGLE-FLASH PLANTS

Fig 3. Single-flash plants scheme

 The geothermal fluid enters the well at the source inlet temperature, station 1. Due to the
well pressure loss the fluid has started to boil at station 2, when it enters the separator. The brine
from the separator is at station 3, and is re-injected at station 4, the geothermal fluid return
condition. The steam from the separator is at station 5, where the steam enters the turbine. The
steam is then expanded through the turbine down to station 6, where the condenser pressure
prevails.
The condenser shown here is air cooled, with the cooling air entering the condenser at
station c1 and leaving at station c2. The condenser hot well is at station 7. The fluid is re-injected at
station 4.

POWER PLANT

PacifiCorp is the sole owner of the 38-megawatt geothermal plant which consists of two different
generating units. The 26.1-megawatt Unit 1 uses flash technology and was commissioned in 1984.
In 2007, they expanded the plants capacity by 12 megawatts with the addition of the Unit 2
bottoming cycle. The bottoming cycle employs an innovative binary heat-recovery process to
extract more energy from the hot geothermal brine left over from the steam separation cycle.

In the flash process, steam and brine from the production wells are separated in centrifugal,
wellhead separators. Pipes carry the steam from the separators to the Unit 1 steam turbine which
rotates the generator to produce electricity. In the bottoming cycle, wellhead brine from the
centrifugal separators is sent through heat exchangers to heat iso-pentane, a fluid similar to
propane, to expand through a separate turbine and generate electricity in a closed loop binary
process. The geothermal brine, after passing through the iso-pentane heat exchangers, is returned
to the geothermal reservoir through the injection wells. The system uses four production wells and
three injection wells that are distributed across an area approximately 4 miles long. About 6 miles of
brine piping and 2 miles of steam piping tie the system together.
TURBINE CHARACTERISTIC

The 26 MW condensing turbine uses a complete SST-400 GEO turbine, installed by Siemens Energy
Service. This steam path has been operating successfully for over 12 years. The steam path used
here is the model for the SST-400 GEO and is reference unit for this frame. The original casing was
replaced with a design which has the same features as the SST-400 fabricated casing. This first
geothermal casing was completely machined and validated at the Siemens manufacturing facility in
Goerlitz, Germany.
OTHER COMPONENTS

GEOTHERMAL VENTS
The geothermal vent is the first component of a geothermal plant. A geothermal vent is a deep well
drilled into the Earth that the power plant uses to tap into the Earths heat. A geothermal plant may
have two goals for its vent; most current geothermal plants draw superheated, pressurized water
upward; these are called flash steam plants. Geothermal plants may also simply dig far enough
underground, as many as three kilometers, to reach a point where the Earth is warm enough to boil
water, these are called dry steam vents.

STEAM GENERATOR
Another key component of a geothermal plant is the steam production unit, which can take multiple
forms. In a flash steam vent, superheated pressurized water is drawn from its place underground to
low-pressure tanks. The pressure of the Earth kept the water in liquid form despite its high
temperature, and by removing that pressure the hot water instantly turns to steam, hence the term
flash steam. In a dry steam plant, the plant technicians pump water to the bottom of the vent where
the Earths heat boils the water and turns it into steam.

CONDENSER
After the steam passes through the turbine, it continues to a condenser chamber. This chamber
condenses the steam back into liquid water by cooling it. The excess heat lost as the steam turns to
liquid water may be used for other applications, such as heating or greenhouse farming. The cooled
liquid water is then typically pumped back into the ground to either restart the boiling process for
dry steam or to replenish the natural heated aquifer for flash steam plants.

PRODUCTION WELL
A well or pipe-joints that distributes the first fluid generated from the earth. The fluid will be
contained in this.

WELL PUMP
A pump that takes the fluid from beneath the earth surface onto the earth surface by taking
advantages of the pressure system.

WELL VALVES
Controls the flow and pressure of fluids from the well.

SEPARATOR
A pipe or containment of wet steam where the separation of steam and water takes place.

MOISTURE REMOVER
Fluids are forbidden to enter the turbine, moisture remover is the one that make sure and vanishing
all type of fluid before the steam enters the turbine.

CONTROL STOP VALVE

Controls the steam flow in the turbine.