Jan 8 2010
Mannvit Engineering offers geothermal development services for developing a geothermal power plant. The five phases involved in the development of a geothermal development plant are exploration and reconnaissance, pre-feasibility, feasibility, detailed design and construction, and operation and maintenance. The geothermal development service starts with the exploration and reconnaissance phase. This phase is undertaken to identify whether the location has enough geothermal resource that can be exploited commercially. First a desk study is conducted to collect the available data on the field.
The desk study is followed by field work, which involves geological mapping, geophysical exploration, geochemical analysis, and drilling of shallow exploration wells. The second phase is the pre-feasibility, in which focused explorations are conducted on favorable locations. Other activities of the pre-feasibility phase include slim well drilling, deep exploration well drilling, assessment of production potential, and fluid chemical analysis. During the feasibility phase, Mannvit Engineering undertakes different activities to demonstrate the commercial level of the resource.
The activities of the feasibility phase include environmental impact assessment, fluid sampling, conceptual modeling, preliminary power plant design and analysis of feasibility data. If the geothermal project proves to be feasible from the information gathered, the next phase, detailed design and construction phase is undertaken. The activities of this phase include designing of production wells, infrastructure facilities design, power transmission lines design, power plant construction, and commissioning. The final phase of the geothermal project development is the operations and maintenance.
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