Effect of Mineral Scaling on Geothermal Wells

Abstract

As of 2040, Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects an increase of 28% in world energy consump- tion. The majority of this consumption is projected to account from developing countries such as India, China and other third world countries since the economy is increasing rapidly. [3]
In order to overcome this fast increase, the human kind cannot rely only on fossil fuels and other sustain- able technologies like solar, wind, geothermal are required. However, the emmision of CO2 is also increasing from 6000 million metric tons carbon in year 2000 to 10000 million metrics tons in 2010. That’s why many countries such as Denmark, Norway, Germany, The Netherlands etc., are moving away from traditional fuel sources to the new energy. One of these energy is Geothermal energy. Despite the fact that geothermal is a clean energy and almost CO2 emission free, it does have some challenges mainly, scaling and corrosion. Moreover, thats not the only problem associated with this. Scaling is site spe- cific which is a major problem in the wells.