DIMOPREC
The general aim of Dimoprec is to accelerate energy efficient geothermal development. Through knowledge development, we minimize operational risks and prolong the lifespan of geothermal systems, reduce operational costs with environmental-societal risk minimization and improve subsurface integrity.
Our direct goals are:
- Develop a clogging and mineralization prediction tool, which can be used to tested with a newly developed scaling skid in the field.
- Develop a generic decision-making tool for treating or avoiding precipitation and clogging, which facilitates productivity and injectivity improvement.
This is how we aim to achieve our goals:
- Modelling study on a selection of geothermal doublets in The Netherlands, which includes:
- Predictive geochemical models of the precipitation process, including impact of modified operational conditions.
- Effect of mineral precipitation and dissolution on flow, energy efficiency and environmental aspects.
- Field scaling skid
- Field-test the scaling mechanisms at injection and production sides (validate modelling study).
This research is a collaboration between TU Delft (Civil Engineering and Geosciences; Applied Mathematics), research institute Deltares, and industry partner Veegeo B.V..
Keywords: Geo-fluids, training and education, deep geothermal
TUD researchers involved:
Dr. Karl-Heinz Wolf
Dr. Ahmed Hussain
Dr. Bernhard Meulenbroek
Negar Khoshnevis Gargar, MSc.
Prof. Hans Bruining
Funder: RVO, funder; TU Delft, co-sponsor; VEEGEO, co-sponsor; Deltares, co-sponsor
