GEOTHERMAL TRAINING PROGRAMME Reports 2008 Orkustofnun, Grensásvegur 9, Number 7 IS-108 Reykjavík, Iceland LECTURES ON GEOTHERMAL AREAS IN CHINA Wang Kun Department of Geothermal Management Tianjin Bureau of Land, Resources and Real Estate Management Heping District, Tianjin 300042 P.R. CHINA
[email protected] Lectures given in August 2008 United Nations University, Geothermal Training Programme Reykjavík, Iceland Published in December 2008 ISBN 978-9979-68-253-0 ISSN 1670-7400 Wang Kun ii Lectures PREFACE The UNU Visiting Lecturer in 2008 was Dr. Wang Kun, Senior Engineer and Deputy Director of the Geothermal Management Department at Tianjin Bureau of Land, Resources and Real Estate Management (TBLRREM), Tianjin, China. TBLRREM is responsible for the geothermal development, monitoring and utilization in Tianjin. Tianjin is the leading province in geothermal in China. In 2007, the space heating area was approximately 12 Mm2 in Tianjin alone. Seventy geoscientists and engineers from China have graduated from the UNU-GTP and many of these are from Tianjin. Dr. Wang Kun is a former UNU-GTP Fellow (1998) and specialized in reservoir engineering. She obtained her BSc in numerical mathematics at Nankai University in Tianjin 1989, and her PhD in geology at Peking University 2005. She worked as a senior engineer at the Design Institute of Geothermal Exploration and Development until 2001, when she moved to the TBLRREM. Wang Kun is one of the leading geothermal reservoir engineers in China. She gave a series of lectures on geothermal development and resource management in China. Her lectures were excellent and well attended by members of the geothermal community in Iceland as well as the UNU Fellows and MSc Fellows.