Entries for Geothermal Manufacturing Prize

The Solar Geo-Drill is a process to drill & a method to additive manufacture a casing for geothermal bore holes using solar light energy.

Additive Mfg Case-While-Drilling (CWD) geothermal wells with hypersonic impact auger drill & continuous 3D monobore concrete printed casing

Develop closed loop geothermal system by utilizing metal 3D printing to engineer a highly efficient helical downhole heat exchanger

Additively manufactured mechanical metamaterials are a technology for improving EGS equipment survivability in the downhole environment

GeoMat - AI based material informatics platform for development of high-strength 3D printing materials for the geothermal energy industry.

Additive manufacturing is used to create backup rings for ultra-expansion HPHT packers for zonal isolation in geothermal wells.

We have designed a revolutionary air hammer bit that will stay intact up to 600°C drastically speeding up the drilling process.

By leveraging the geometric potential and available materials in additive manufacturing we plan to create a check valve with no moving parts

An additive manufacturing method through integrating welding and molding process to fabricate large scale multiple layer metal components