United Kingdom: British Company to Coordinate Project on Highly Flexible Operational Capability for Geothermal Installations

TWI Wins €17 Million Geosmart Project (News Release)

TWI, a U.K.-based independent research and technology organisation, will coordinate part of a new €17 million collaborative project to develop technologies to allow geothermal plants to cost-effectively respond to network heat and power demands.

The project, which is funded through the EU’s H2020 fund, has 19 partners across Europe, with TWI overseeing a €3.8 million budget to combine thermal energy storage with flexible organic rankine cycle (ORC) solutions to provide a highly flexible operational capability for geothermal installations.

The project aims to find methods to store heat energy when demand is low so that it can be released later at times when demand is high. This will not impact critical infrastructures under variable energy generation as the approach will not influence the flow condition at the wellhead.

The project also plans to create a hybrid cooling system for the ORC plant that will prevent efficiency degradation due to seasonal changes and thereby improve efficiency.

Read More..........

From the Global Geothermal News archives:

• Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - Science & Technology: Researching Corrosion Resistant Coatings for High Temperature Geothermal Applications