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DIRECT USES
 
Total thermal installed capacity in MWt:
1.0
Direct use in TJ/year
15.0
Direct use in GWh/year
4.2
Capacity factor
0.48
 
There was no country update report from Egypt; however a paper by Idris (2000) and personal communications with the author describes several spas with bathing located in the country. Among them is the Helwan sulphur bath, located east of the Nile River and south of Cairo, which is fed by a large sulphur spring, in the central part of the Helwan District that has been used for curing skin disorders since the VII century. Temperature is 31.6°C and discharge is 2.9 l/s. Springs can also be found in the Western Desert of Dakhla Oasis (Ain Elgabal – 40°C and 5.2 l/s), Farafra Oasis (Ain Elbalad – 28°C and 5.6 l/s), Baharya Oasis (Ain El Bishmou - 31.6°C and 4.4 l/s) (Ain El Ris - 28.3°C and 1.2 l/s), and Sinai (Ain Hammam Faroun – 70°C and 10.2 l/s) (Idris, personal communication). The WGC 2000 estimation of 1.0 MWt and 15 TJ/yr is assumed to still be current.

Taken from the papers:
"World-Wide Direct Uses of Geothermal Energy 2005", by John W. Lund, Derek H. Freeston, and Tonya L. Boyd, published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2005, Antalya, Turkey, 24-29 April 2005.
"World-wide direct uses of geothermal energy 2000", by John W. Lund and Derek H. Freeston, published in Geothermics, Vol. 30, no.1 (2001).
A Hypertext Document by Li Bellucci, Marnell Dickson, and Mario Fanelli
 

 

No data were submitted for WGC2005 or WGC2010. A paper by Idris (2000) and personal communications with the author in 2000 indicated that there are several spas with bathing facilities in Egypt. A spa at Hammam Faraun is also reference in Lashin and Al Arifi (2010).

The estimates in Lund et al. (2005) of 1.0 MWt and 15 TJ/yr are assumed to still be valid.
 

Taken from the paper by John W. Lund, Derek H. Freeston, and Tonya L. Boyd: "Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy 2010 Worldwide Review"; published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010, Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010