Long Term Reliability of Geothermal Plants - Examples from Germany
- Key words
- scale, lead, geochemistry, radionuclides, NORM
- Location
- Neustadt-Glewe, Germany
- Conference
- European Geothermal Conference
- Year
- 2007
- Session
- Direct Use of Geothermal Energy
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 137
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Abstract
The paper presents first results of a project aiming at the improvement of the long term reliability of geothermal installations. Scaling, corrosion, thermal water and gas geochemistry and naturally occurring radioactivity are discussed. Results of corrosion experiments show that materials have to be adapted to the thermal water properties of the reservoir. Formation of scales is strongly linked to corrosion problems and degassing of the brine.
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