Geothermal Energy and Geofluids

The Geothermal Energy and Geofluids group conducts research in geophysical fluid dynamics of subsurface multiphase, multicomponent, reactive fluid (groundwater, hydrocarbon, CO₂, magma) and energy (heat, pressure) transfer over multiple scales employing computer simulations, laboratory experiments, and field analyses.

The group is endowed by the external page Werner Siemens Foundation and investigates the above processes both to gain fundamental insights into fluid and energy transfer processes acting within the Earth’s crust and to apply this knowledge to address a wide range of societal goals and concerns such as:

• water- and CO₂-based geothermal energy utilization for electricity and/or heat supply
• Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) operation
• geologic CO₂ sequestration
• Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS)
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
• grid-scale energy storage
• groundwater flow and supply
• fluid-induced seismicity
• volcano-hydrology