Exploitable results Role and Control of Organic Matters -Microbial Corrosion in Geothermal Plants The project aimed to evaluate and rank the three factors - organic matter, bacteria, and the mineral content of geothermal fluids - which are known to be responsible for causing corrosion in geothermal wells. This would allow scientists to predict the risk of microbial corrosion in geothermal plants as a function of other variables, and therefore propose effective preventative or curative solutions to the problem. A large number of geothermal wells and plants across Europe suffer from corrosion. This can have a detrimental effect on the efficiency and therefore the profitability of the plant. Previous experimental work has demonstrated the role of organic matter contained in geothermal water as a limiting factor for microbial corrosion of metals in geothermal environments. Organic matter serves as nutrient material for the microorganisms, particularly for corrosion-causing bacteria (sulphate-reducing bacteria) and common bacteria which form cell attachments (biofilms) on immersed surfaces. Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available
