Progress in Geothermal Waste Treatment Biotechnology
- Key words
- Brine Technology; Environmental; USA; Disposal System; Flow Rates; Costs; Feasibility Studies; Geothermal Sledge; Filter Cake; Waste Treatment
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1991
- Session
- Environmental aspects; Feasibility studies; Waste management
- Language
- English
Abstract
Studies directed at the development of an environmentally acceptable technology for the treatment and disposal of geothermal sludges have shown that a biotechnology based on microbial biochemical processes is technically and economically feasible. Process designs for the emerging biotechnology have to take several variables into consideration. In the present paper some of these variables will be discussed in terms of their effect on the cost and efficiently of potential processes.
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