Geothermal Pumps

Geothermal Pumps for Brine Reinjection and Injection Testing

Rhino Pumps works on the surface side of geothermal projects. We supply Levare HPS horizontal pumping systems for brine reinjection, high pressure injection and fluid transfer, handle the application engineering and sizing, build optional controls in our UL 508A listed panel shop, and repair geothermal pumps in our Pleasant Grove, Utah shop.

We do not work downhole. For ESPs and other pumps in production wells, we put you in touch with Levare directly.

Levare HPS Surface Pumps for Reinjection

Levare's HPS is a multistage horizontal centrifugal pump on a rigid skid. Because it builds pressure across many stages, it can hold high discharge pressure continuously, which is what reinjection and injection testing ask for. And because it sits at the surface, crews can reach the pump, motor and seals without pulling anything out of a well.

Levare's ThermaGenix HPS line, built for high temperature surface pumping, covers flows to about 1,350 gpm (47,000 bpd) with motors from 100 to 2,000 hp. Standard builds use 316 stainless intake and discharge sections, Ni-Resist stages, and tungsten carbide bearings and sleeves for abrasion, with alternate materials available. We size each system to the well, the injection pressure and the brine.

Utah FORGE: High Pressure Injection Testing in Milford

At Utah FORGE, the Department of Energy's enhanced geothermal field lab near Milford, Levare HPS units provide the high pressure fluid injection used for reservoir pressure transient testing. Rhino Pumps was Levare's partner on the project, handling application engineering, system sizing and field support alongside the FORGE engineering team.

That is the same work we bring to commercial projects: pumps sized to the duty, materials matched to the fluid, and a Utah team that supports the system after startup. Read more in our FORGE project write-up.

Brine Chemistry, Temperature and Materials

Geothermal brine is hot, often high in dissolved solids, and can carry silica, chlorides and gases that attack standard pump materials. Scaling, corrosion and seal heat are what shorten pump life in this service. We look at temperature, total dissolved solids, pH and gas content before picking metallurgy, elastomers and seal arrangements, and we plan for the pump to be opened up and rebuilt, not thrown away.

Controls and VFDs from a UL 508A Listed Panel Shop

Reinjection pumps run around the clock, often at remote sites, so starting, stopping and protecting them matters. Kontrols, our UL 508A listed panel shop, builds VFD and pump control panels with the protection and SCADA integration a geothermal plant needs. Controls are optional, so we can also supply the pump package to work with the plant's existing control system.

Geothermal Pump Repair in Utah

When a geothermal pump comes out of service, it can come to our Pleasant Grove, Utah shop. We tear it down, find out why it failed, machine what needs it, dynamically balance to ISO 1940, and send it back with an eight-document QA package. Turnaround depends on the pump and the parts, so we give you a real estimate once we have seen it.

Rhino Pumps serves Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Washington and Colorado, with locations in Pleasant Grove, Elko, Phoenix, Caldwell, Kirkland and Longmont. The Milford area and Nevada's geothermal fields are both inside our core territory.