Systems and methods for improved subterranean granular resistive heaters

摘要

Systems and methods for improved subterranean granular resistive heaters. The methods may include forming a composite granular resistive heating material. These methods may include determining an expected operating range for an environmental parameter for the composite granular resistive heating material within a subterranean formation, selecting a first material, selecting a second material, and/or generating the composite granular resistive heating material from the first material and the second material. The methods may include forming a granular resistive heater. The methods may include determining the expected operating range and/or locating the composite granular resistive heating material within the subterranean formation. The systems may include a composite granular resistive heating material that includes a first material and a second material and that defines a composite functional relationship between an electrical property of the composite granular resistive heating material and the environmental parameter. The composite functional relationship includes a mathematical extremum.