COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GEOTHERMAL WATER CHEMISTRY AND MODELING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GEE 5080 GEOTHERMAL WATER CHEMISTRY AND MODELING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜLTEKIN TARCAN

Offered to

Applied Geology
Applied Geology

Course Objective

To define water chemistry methods and computer codes on the basis of the geothermal system researhes during the prospection, development and monitoring stages

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define geothermal systems and chemical characteristics of geothermal fluids
2   To be able to define water chemistry codes used in geothermal system researhes
3   To be able to use water chemistry data in geothermal system researhes
4   To be able to estimate engineering problems on the stages of production and utilization of geothermal energy
5   To be able to apply water chemistry methods during the studies on control and moitoring of the geothermal fluids

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The stages of geothermal researches and water chemistry
2 General chemical characteristics of the geothermal fluids
3 Mineral equilibrium and mineral saturation states of the geothermal fluids
4 Calculations of the mineral saturation indices of the geothermal fluids
5 The estimations of the reservoir temperatures of geothermal field
6 Aquifer chemistry calculations in the geothermal field
7 Midterm exam
8 Computer codes and general properties used upon geothermal water chemistry
9 Hydrowin-95 (Calmcach, 1995) ve AquaChem-97 (Calmbach, 1997) computer codes and practice
10 WATCH (Arnórsson vd., 1982 ve Bjarnason, 1994) chemical speciation code and practice
11 Solmineq.88 (Kharaka vd., 1988) chemical speciation code and practice
12 PhreeqCi (Parkhurst ve Appelo, 1999) chemical speciation and reaction path code and practice
13 Preparing project design
14 Project presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Arnórsson, S., 2000, Isotopic and chemical techniques in geothermal exploration, development and use. IAEA, Austria, 351pp.
Nicholson, K., 1993, Geothermal Fluids; Chemistry and Exploration Techniques. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures and tutorials

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

E-mail: gultekin.tarcan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 14 2 28
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Design Project 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Midterm 1 2 2
Project presentation 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 169

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15545455
LO.2545554445554
LO.354445555555
LO.454544455544
LO.554545455554