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PROCEEDINGS, Thirty-Sixth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 31 - February 2, 2011 SGP-TR-191 LABORATORY EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEAT EXTRACTION FROM POROUS MEDIA BY MEANS OF CO2 Mario Magliocco1,2 2 2 1,2 , Timothy J. Kneafsey , Karsten Pruess , and Steven Glaser 1Department Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720 e-mail: mag@berkeley.edu ABSTRACT dependent on a number of factors including an optimized combination of geological conditions such The use of CO2 as a heat transfer fluid has been as presence of hydrothermal fluid, high heat flux, proposed as an alternative to water in enhanced high rock permeability and/or high rock porosity. geothermal systems (EGS). Numerical simulations Enhanced (or Engineered) Geothermal systems have shown that under expected EGS operating (EGS) are