Implementation period: 2014-11-30 - 2017-10-31
Type: National
Division: Division of Renewable Energy Sources
The aim of the project was to determine new applications for waste thermal water; this was achieved through complex and interdisciplinary geothermal, hydrogeological, water purification, environmental protection, water management, balneological, and hydrogeological analyses, as well as geothermal modelling.
The Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as a Consortium Leader, implemented the project “Obtaining of drinking water and liquids and balneological substances in the treatment of cooled thermal waters” (Project No. 245079 financed by the National Centre for Research and Development) under the framework of the Applied Research Programme (programme path A). Barbara Tomaszewska, D. Sc., Eng. worked as a project director and coordinator. The consortium included the representatives of the AGH University of Science and Technology, the Silesian University of Technology, the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, and the Geotermia Mazowiecka and Geotermia Uniejów.
The result of the project was the determination of practical solutions in terms of their industrial applications, which can limit the negative impact of discharges of saline or waste thermal water into surface watercourses.
