Power Generation and Energy Utilities

An effective water cycle management in power generation and energy utilities is to a large degree dependent on the efficiency of the system to cope with increasing residual solids through time. Increased salt build up in different components of the water cycle can progressively reduce the efficiency of operations and lead to significant operation costs. Improvements can be achieved by physical extraction of the dissolved salts and this is where Geo’s technologies can be applied beneficially for a variety of operational conditions. For example, selective or sequential extraction of dissolved salts can help to stabilize the salt load in large operating systems and provide an effective residuals management tool. A similar approach may be applied to co-located power and desalination plants to help management of the water cycle of the total system. An attractive attribute of Geo’s technologies relate to the opportunity to recycle residuals for reducing the operation costs in large power generation and energy facilities. This together with Geo’s advisory services for design of evaporation ponds and effluent storage basins provides a complete package of services and products for this particular industry.

In the case of coal power plants producing large volumes of saline-alkaline waters Geo’s CCPR technology may be applied beneficially to address water management issues while also mitigating air CO2 gas for carbon credit generation.