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Cascade use of geothermal energy in Mexico
Autor
ALFONSO GARCIA GUTIERREZ
HECTOR MIGUEL AVIÑA JIMENEZ
MIGUEL ANGEL BENITEZ TORREBLANCA
Institución
Resumen
Geothermal cascade systems are widely used around the globe. Once the geothermal resource is utilized in a main application, like power generation, it is led to secondary processes in which the thermal energy can still be utilized. The iiDEA Group, an applied research group part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is currently developing three major projects aimed at the exploitation of low-enthalpy geothermal energy: a Flash Evaporation Binary Cycle (FEBC), a Modular Geothermal Desalination Unit (MGDU), and a Geothermal Food Dehydrator (GFD). In this article, an overall discussion of the aforementioned projects is presented as a proposal for cascade use of geothermal energy in Mexico.