Drilling has began for a geothermal heating system on the web site of aviation engine producer MTU Aero Engines in Munich, Germany.
Drilling has begun for a geothermal doublet on the essential plant of MTU Aero Engines AG, an engine producer situated within the north of Munich, Germany.  Sooner or later, geothermal power as a warmth supply will largely substitute the plant’s present gas-powered warmth provide.  A geothermal output of not less than 10 MW is anticipated.
Boreholes might be drilled to a depth of round two kilometers, concentrating on the Malm formation. Each wells might be drilled from a cluster drilling web site situated instantly east of MTU’s manufacturing services. The deliberate manufacturing nicely is aimed in direction of the south and the deliberate reinjection nicely in direction of the north. Because of the deviated path, the drilling distances are as much as 3,300 m per gap. If all the things goes in line with plan, the deep drilling work, together with short-term exams, might be accomplished by mid-2024.
MTU is a Munich-based plane engine producer specializing in each navy and civil plane purposes. We had beforehand reported on the plans of MTU to combine geothermal heating to their services and a previous software for a geothermal exploration allow from the federal government of Higher Bavaria, in addition to the choice of German drilling firm Daldrup & Söhne AG as the overall contractor for the challenge.
ERDWERK has been managing MTU’s geothermal power challenge since 2020, beginning with the essential investigation, help within the mining approval course of together with the appliance for the Karlsfeld-Ost allow area, the feasibility examine, detailed planning and the tendering course of. In the course of the drilling and testing section, ERDWERK gives steady geological and drilling help and likewise acts because the consumer’s consultant on web site.
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