BESTEC at the World Geothermal Congress (postponed to May 2021)
Join us at our joint stand no. 41 (H2) at the World Geothermal Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The World Geothermal Congress has been postponed to May 2021.
BESTEC GmbH - Frost Consulting Group - Altcom Ltd.
Our presentations in the conference program:
- Industrial Experiences with Downhole Geothermal Line-Shaft Production Pumps in Hostile Environment in the Upper Rhine Valley
- Scale and Corrosion Mitigation: Economic Feasibility of Combined Mitigation Measures
- ThermoDrill - Fast Track Innovative Drilling System for Deep Geothermal Challenges
- International Cooperation to Address and Mitigate the Climate Change Issue Using Unconventional Geothermal Technology (EGS)
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Full steam ahead for Eden's hot rocks plan
Eden Geothermal Limited was able to secure funding of £ 16.8 m to drill a 4.5 km deep well at the Eden Project, and heat its famous Biomes, greenhouses and offices.
Eden Geothermal Ltd has been set up by three partners: Eden Project Ltd, EGS Energy Ltd, and Bestec (UK) Ltd to unlock the geothermal energy deep in the granite beneath Cornwall.
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Successful completion of the BMWi research project SUBITO
The selection of different inhibitors, combined with extensive laboratory testing and the application of products with accompanying monitoring at two geothermal energy plants in the Upper Rhine Graben, has enabled the development of a successful strategy to avoid scaling within the framework of this research project.
The combined application of two different product groups, inhibitors for scale prevention and corrosion inhibitors, successfully reduced the total amount of scales. Thus, the efficiency and the service lifetime of the heat exchangers have been significantly increased and, in addition, follow-up costs such as disposal costs for the scales have been significantly reduced.
A total of four partners were responsible for the research project SUBITO: BESTEC GmbH, BWG GmbH, VKTA and ZSM GmbH & Co KG. The companies and institutes GEIE EMC, AquaTitan GmbH, KIT-INE and GTN GmbH acted as subcontractors for the project partners.
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Revolutionary drilling technology
Together with European project partners, BESTEC has developed a revolutionary drilling technology in a research project.
The novel hybrid drilling technique combines standard rotary drilling with a technology called water jet cutting. The high-pressure water jet (approx. 2,000 bar) is used to pre-damage the rock on impact with the effect of significantly increasing the rate of penetration and thus the overall efficiency of the drilling process. Technical, economic and safety reasons demand that the high-pressure generation unit is directly placed below the drill bit. Despite several great challenges including confined space and harsh conditions at the borehole bottom, a prototype of the high-pressure generation unit was developed and successfully integrated as essential component of the ThermoDrill drilling system.
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