The Iceland Renewable Power Cluster invited all corporations and people to submit their improvements for the IGC 2024 Innovation Award, which is being awarded for the primary time this 12 months.
The award goals to acknowledge and rejoice excellent technological improvements and tasks in geothermal vitality within the fields of local weather resilience, sustainability and emission discount, technological breakthroughs, new geothermal functions, and enhancements in vitality output or effectivity.
This award is a good alternative to focus on the groundbreaking contributions of the distinctive improvements at present rising inside our sector. The IGC committee goals for these options to be acknowledged internationally.
The winner is ÍSOR – Iceland Geosurvey, selling versatile couplings.
In keeping with our evaluate, all members of the nomination committee agreed that the winner is ÍSOR, for his or her versatile couplings. Typically, wells are an operator’s most essential asset in an influence plant. Versatile couplings signify a novel patented expertise, which has been in improvement for the previous 10 years. Their objective is to mitigate casing failures in high-temperature wells, thereby rising the reliability of wells and presumably resulting in elevated flexibility within the operation of energy vegetation utilizing the expertise in drilling. Right here, the focus is on Novelty and Technical Achievement.
The ÍSOR challenge exceeded vastly within the fields of safety and stability, promotes elevated security for drilling, and enhances the present information throughout the area to innovate a brand new expertise – with the potential of being utilized on a worldwide scale!
Honorable recognition goes to Blue Spark Power, selling expertise to mitigate scaling in geothermal techniques.
Higher understanding and elevated choices to enhance the utilization of geothermal vitality, even with variable traits, embody new challenges akin to scaling in boreholes and pipelines.
Blue Spark Power brings new and most appreciated expertise to the trade which if all goes in one of the simplest ways might improve the safety of geothermal and even additional in different fields.
Once more, the main focus is on Novelty and Technical achievement but additionally on adapting expertise proved in different industries to geothermal environments. This innovation gives new methods for scale elimination and expands the potential of present technological options accessible throughout the area of scale elimination. The panel of consultants believes strongly within the Blue Spark Power expertise and appears ahead to following the long run developments within the coming months and years.
