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                            Ormat geothermal combined cycle (GCCU)

                         Steam
            Separator                                  Condenser


                        Steam               Organic
                        turbine             turbine  Fan           Injection system
                                 Generator
                                 Vaporizer
                                                                            Noncondensable  gases (NCG)  compressor
                                                                      Condensate pump
                                                         Motive
                                                        fluid pump




                                Ormat binary geothermal cycle


                                                       Condenser


                                            Turbine  Fan
                                                                      Injection pump
                                 Generator
                                 Vaporizer
                         Brine
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                                  Preheater
                                                    Motive fluid pump


              Production                                          Injection
                well                                               well


                            Hot                              Cooled
                          geothermal                        geothermal
                            fluid                             fluid
           Fig. 3.13 One of possible schematics of integrated geothermal combined cycle (IGCC)
           power plant.
           Courtesy of ORMAT, United States: http://www.ormat.com/geothermal-power.
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