Book chapter

Eduardo González-Mora, Álvaro E. Lentz-Herrera, Ma. Dolores Durán-García
Artur Zaporozhets, Systems, Decision and Control in Energy VIII: Volume III: Energy and Environmental Safety, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2027, pp. 289--317

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-30580-0_16

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González-Mora, E., Lentz-Herrera, Á. E., & Durán-García, M. D. (2027). Comparative Annual Analysis of Therminol VP1 and Direct Steam Generation for Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Power at Cerro Prieto. In A. Zaporozhets (Ed.), Systems, Decision and Control in Energy VIII: Volume III: Energy and Environmental Safety (pp. 289–317). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-30580-0_16

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González-Mora, Eduardo, Álvaro E. Lentz-Herrera, and Ma. Dolores Durán-García. “Comparative Annual Analysis of Therminol VP1 and Direct Steam Generation for Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Power at Cerro Prieto.” In Systems, Decision and Control in Energy VIII: Volume III: Energy and Environmental Safety, edited by Artur Zaporozhets, 289–317. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2027.

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González-Mora, Eduardo, et al. “Comparative Annual Analysis of Therminol VP1 and Direct Steam Generation for Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Power at Cerro Prieto.” Systems, Decision and Control in Energy VIII: Volume III: Energy and Environmental Safety, edited by Artur Zaporozhets, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2027, pp. 289–317, doi:10.1007/978-3-032-30580-0_16.

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@inbook{gonz2027a,
  title = {Comparative Annual Analysis of Therminol VP1 and Direct Steam Generation for Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Power at Cerro Prieto},
  year = {2027},
  address = {Cham},
  pages = {289--317},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-30580-0_16},
  author = {González-Mora, Eduardo and Lentz-Herrera, Álvaro E. and Durán-García, Ma. Dolores},
  editor = {Zaporozhets, Artur},
  booktitle = {Systems, Decision and Control in Energy VIII: Volume III: Energy and Environmental Safety}
}

Abstract

The integration of complementary renewable energy sources represents a critical strategy for improving the stability, efficiency, and output of clean power generation. Geothermal energy supplies consistent baseload power, while concentrating solar thermal (CST) technology delivers high-temperature heat, creating a synergistic relationship ideal for hybridization. This approach proves particularly valuable for addressing challenges in aging geothermal fields where steam production and enthalpy are declining. This study tackles the essential problem of identifying the optimal solar field configuration for augmenting a geothermal facility—a decision with significant technical and economic implications. Through comparative thermo-hydraulic analysis, we demonstrate that a direct steam generation (DSG) system outperforms a conventional system using Therminol VP-1 at the Cerro Prieto geothermal plant in Mexico. The DSG configuration achieves higher annual energy efficiency (0.61 versus 0.49) and an increased solar fraction (29.13% versus 28.38%), all while requiring a smaller solar field area. This finding challenges the conventional preference for synthetic heat transfer fluids and confirms that the characteristically higher pressure drop in DSG systems remains operationally manageable within the annular flow regime and the plant's existing pressure limits. Our results deliver a validated framework for renewable energy integration, establishing direct steam generation as a new performance benchmark for solar-geothermal hybrids. This work advances the broader scientific objective of creating dispatchable, fully renewable power systems by optimizing the synergistic use of geothermal and solar resources.