Start and End Date

01 September 2018-30 September 2022

Coordinator

Reykjavik Enerji, İzlanda

Project Total Budget

18.220.330,50 €

Turkish Partners

Zorlu Enerji Elektrik Üretim A.Ş., ODTÜ

Supported Framework Program

Horizon 2020

Project Website
https://geco-h2020.eu/
geco

GECO will advance in the provision of cleaner and cost-effective non-carbon and sulphur emitting geothermal energy across Europe and the World. The core of this project is the application of an innovative technology, recently developed and proved successfully at pilot scale in Iceland, which can limit the production of emissions from geothermal plants by condensing and re-injecting gases or turning the emissions into commercial products. To both increase public acceptance and to generalise this approach, it will be applied by GECO in four distinct geothermal systems in four different European countries. Our approach to waste gas storage is to capture and inject the soluble gases in the exhaust stream as dissolved aqueous phase. This approach leads to the long-term environmentally friendly storage of waste gases, while it lowers considerably the cost of cleaning geothermal gas compared to standard industry solutions. A detailed and consistent monitoring program, geochemical analysis, and comprehensive modelling will allow characterising the reactivity and consequences of fluid flow in our geologically diverse field sites letting us create new and more accurate modelling tools to predict the reactions that occur in the subsurface in response to induced fluid flow.

Keywords: CO2, CCS, CCU, carbon, geothermal, gases, mineralisation, utilisation, NCG

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