Recent Advances of the Basic Concepts in Geothermal Turbines of Low and High Enthalpy

Abstract:

A few numbers of countries in the world are involved in geothermal exploration and geothermal development projects. In order to provide a stable power supply without increasing carbon dioxide on global environment problem, a basic condition need to be fulfilled. This condition is high reliability and high maintainability for the geothermal energetic pumps and turbines. Effective efficiency improvement and geothermal turbines system upgrading are very important and also fundamental economical factor. This means that CO₂ emissions into the atmosphere are minimal and a higher reliance on geothermal power generation would work on preventing global warming.The solution to climate changes threat is based now, mainly, on renewable and ecological sources of energy. Geothermal energy has the potential to play a significant role in moving the Europe and other regions of the world toward a cleaner and more sustainable energy system. In order to increase the reliability of geothermal steam turbines, assessing the materials life under geothermal environment condition will be an important step. The corrosion process in the geothermal turbine and pumps depends on temperature, pressure, chemistry, mechanical and vaporous carryover of impurities and water treatment (distribution between the vapors, the surface film and rotor blades material, heat transfer properties etc).The aim of this paper is to present a new coating method for geothermal turbines and pumps components using multi composite technology in order to obtain a protective layer to reduce corrosion damages. The results were very promising and the technique used, plasma jet spraying is a very good method to be used on the geothermal turbines and pumps components.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1114)
• Pages: 233-238
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1114.233
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Aurelian Buzăianu, Ioana Csáki, Petra Moţoiu, Gabriela Popescu, Ingolfur Thorbjornsson, Kolbrun R. Ragnarsodottir, Sæmundur Guðlaugsson, Daniel Goubmunson
• Keywords: Composite, Geothermal Turbine, SEM, Thermal Spray Process

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