CO₂-Plume Geothermal (CPG) System
GEG ski day - Flumserberg February 2019
Visit of Werner Siemens Foundation at ETH - GEG Group
The first GEG Group Relay Running Team. SOLA on May 4, 2019
Inauguration Werner Siemens Foundation plate with ETH President Professor Dr. Lino Guzzella.
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) experimental equipment for reactive flow visualization in fractured porous media - M. Ahkami
Geophysical Field Course for students.
Modeling the effect of pressure propagation and tracer injection in the DUG-Lab. The bottom left panel shows the layout used with tunnels (blue), shear zones (red lines) and the modeled injection point (black dot). Top panels: pressure propagation as a result of constant 0.5 l/min water injection. Bottom panels: tracer transportation of 1 ppm pulse injection to steady-state system with simultaneous constant 0.5 l/min injection of tracer free water.
GEG Group June 2019
Friedemann Samrock - Underground magnetotellurik measurements in the Black Forest Observatory
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Mission Statement

The Geothermal Energy & Geofluids group is endowed by the Werner Siemens Foundation and investigates reactive fluid (water, CO2, CxHy, N2) and (geothermal) energy (heat, pressure) transfer in the Earth’s crust employing computer simulations, laboratory experiments and field analyses to gain fundamental insights and to address a wide range of societal goals and concerns.

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Top Ranking for ETH Zurich’s Earth Sciences in Nature Index 2018

20.12.2018

ETH is listed number one among the 200 best academic institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences in the Nature Index 2018. This index is based on publications in the 82 journals selected as the most important journals by two panels of scientists, which are independent of the Nature Publishing Group.
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SNF Ambizione Grant

25.10.2018

Dr. Allan Leal has been awarded an SNF Ambizione grant to develop innovative computational methods for ultra-fast simulations of coupled physical and chemical processes using machine learning and GPU parallel computing, starting on January 1, 2019.
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Dr. Allan Leal

SNF R4D Grant

01.10.2018

Dr. Friedemann Samrock has been awarded an SNF R4D grant to develop a geoscientific framework for geothermal exploration and energy utilization in Mongolia, started on September 1, 2018.
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Dr. Friedemann Samrock

Top Ranking for ETH Zurich’s Earth Sciences in QS World University Rankings

14.03.2018

Earth and marine sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich was ranked the best in the world for the 4th time in a row. The results were published by the QS World University Rankings.
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Inauguration of commemorative plaque for the Werner Siemens Foundation

12.09.2017

Werner Siemens Foundation visits the Geothermal Energy & Geofluids Group and has a guided tour at the GEG Laboratories.

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Grimsel rock lab, feasibility of geothermal power plants.
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Grimsel rock laboratory, safer drilling methods.
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22.10.2019

Rok, a reactive transport simulator (in its infancy!) using Reaktoro and Firedrake

Allan Leal (GEG group presentation)
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05.11.2019

Passive quantification of subsurface properties using the groundwater response to Earth and atmospheric tides

Gabriel Rau (GEG group presentation)
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Towards a spatio-temporal understanding of dolomite dissolution in sandstone by CO2-enriched brine circulation

Ma, J., L. Querci, B. Hattendorf, M.O. Saar, and X.-Z. Kong Environmental Science & Technology, 2019. Download

Field Comparison of DNA-Labeled Nanoparticle and Solute Tracer Transport in a Fractured Crystalline Rock

Kittilä, A., M.R. Jalali, K.F. Evans, M. Willmann, M.O. Saar, and X.-Z. Kong Water Resources Research, 2019. Download

Thermally driven fracture aperture variation in naturally fractured granites

Lima, M.M., D. Vogler, L. Querci, C. Madonna, B. Hattendorf, M.O. Saar, and X.-Z. Kong Geothermal Energy Journal, 7/1, pp. 1-28, 2019. Download

Simulation of hydro-mechanically coupled processes in rough rock fractures using an immersed boundary method and variational transfer operators

von Planta, C., D. Vogler, X. Chen, M.G.C. Nestola, M.O. Saar, and R. Krause Computational Geosciences, pp. 1-16, 2019. Download

Quantification of thermal conductivity uncertainty for basin modeling

Elison, P., J. Niederau, C. Vogt, and C. Clauser AAPG Bulletin, 103/8, pp. 1787-1809, 2019. Download

Compressive and Tensile Behavior of 3D-Printed and Natural Sandstones

Perras, M.A., and D. Vogler Transport in Porous Media, 129/2, pp. 559-581, 2019. Download

High-resolution temporo-ensemble PIV to resolve pore-scale flow in 3D-printed fractured porous media

Ahkami, M., T. Roesgen, M.O. Saar, and X.-Z. Kong Transport in Porous Media, 129/2, pp. 467-483, 2019. Download

3D non-conforming mesh model for flow in fractured porous media using Lagrange multipliers

Schädle, P., P. Zulian, D. Vogler, S. Bhopalam R., M.G.C. Nestola, A. Ebigbo, R. Krause, and M.O. Saar Computers & Geosciences, 132, pp. 42-55, 2019. Download

Overview of recent TJ-II stellarator results

Ascasíbar, E., et al., M. Ezzat, et al., J. M. García-Regaña, et al., and the TJ-II team Nuclear Fusion, 59/11, pp. 1-13, 2019. Download

Guaranteed error bounds and local indicators for adaptive solvers using stabilized space-time IgA approximations to parabolic problems

Matculevich, S., U. Langer, and S. Repin Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2019. Download

Contribution of Pore-Scale Approach to Macroscale Geofluids Modelling in Porous Media

Romano, E., J. Jimenez-Martinez, A. Parmigiani, X.-Z. Kong, and I. Battiato Geofluids, 2019, 2019. Download

Characterization of transport-enhanced phase separation in porous media using a lattice-Boltzmann method

Parmigiani, A., P.R. Di Palma, S. Leclaire, F. Habib, and X.-Z. Kong Geofluids, 2019, 2019. Download

Field-scale modeling of microbially induced calcite precipitation

Cunningham, A. B., H. Class, A. Ebigbo, R. Gerlach, A. J. Phillips, and J. Hommel Computational Geosciences, 23/2, pp. 399-414, 2019. Download

Stress magnitudes in the Basel enhanced geothermal system

Valley, B., and K.F. Evans International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 118, pp. 1-20, 2019. Download

Tippers at island geomagnetic observatories constrain electrical conductivity of oceanic lithosphere and upper mantle

Morschhauser, A., A.V. Grayver, A. Kuvshinov, F. Samrock, and J. Matzka Earth, Planets and Space, 71/17, pp. 1-9, 2019. Download

Using TNT-NN to Unlock the Fast Full Spatial Inversion of Large Magnetic Microscopy Datasets

Myre, J.M., I. Lascu, E.A. Lima, J.M. Feinberg, M.O. Saar, and B.P. Weiss Earth Planets and Space, 71/14, 2019. Download

The value of bulk energy storage for reducing CO2 emissions and water requirements from regional electricity systems.

Ogland-Hand, J.D., J.M. Bielicki, Y. Wang, B.M. Adams, T.A. Buscheck, and M.O. Saar Energy Conversion and Management, 181, pp. 674-685, 2019. Download

On the direct measurement of shear moduli in transversely isotropic rocks using the uniaxial compression test

Dambly, M.L.T., M. Nejati, D. Vogler, and M.O. Saar International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences (IJRMMS), 113, pp. 220-240, 2019. Download