Geoenergy
The Topic Geoenergy will address multiple utilization scenarios – also beyond the supply of steerable base-load electricity from the subsurface – and provide essential contributions to meet the heating demand in Germany if the underground can be used to extract or seasonably store medium-temperature heat (<150°C).
The multidisciplinary approach encompassing fundamental and applied research in close collaboration with industry covers a wide range of scales and issues: from nano scale (e.g., development of smart nano particles as tracers), to microscale (e.g., investigation of scalings including naturally occurring radioactive materials, porosity/permeability evolutions, multiphysics processes), and reservoir/system scale (e.g., seismicity mitigation, life-cycle assessment).
“All competences from pure physics to natural sciences such as geology are represented and show excellence in modeling and engineering analysis at several scales”. The outstanding rated research unit at KIT is encouraged to demonstrate geothermal high-temperature storage systems and heat production, e.g., at the KIT Campus North. Furthermore, the geothermal underground laboratory GeoLaB was designed as the first geothermal reservoir simulator for reservoir technology and borehole safety.
Publications
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Späth, M.; Urai, J. L.; Nestler, B.
Formation of radiator structures in quartz veins - Phase-field modeling of multi-crack sealing
2022. Journal of Structural Geology, 158, Art.-Nr.: 104576. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104576 -
Ismail-Zadeh, A.; Soloviev, A.
Numerical Modelling of Lithospheric Block-and-Fault Dynamics: What Did We Learn About Large Earthquake Occurrences and Their Frequency?
2022. Surveys in geophysics. doi:10.1007/s10712-021-09686-w
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Rosa, J. W. C.; Rosa, J. W. C.; Walde, D. H. G.; Bauer, F.; Tröger, U.; Fuck, R. A.
Origin of the Caldas Novas dome (Brazil) and its thermal water circulation
2021. Journal of South American earth sciences, 109, Article no: 103265. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103265 -
Tsepelev, I. A.; Ismail-Zadeh, A. T.; Melnik, O. E.
Lava Dome Evolution at Volcán de Colima, México During 2013: Insights from Numerical Modeling
2021. Journal of volcanology and seismology, 15 (6), 491–501. doi:10.1134/S0742046321060117 -
Ismail-Zadeh, A.; Kumar, A.
Deterministic, Probabilistic, and Data-enhanced Models of Seismic Hazard Assessments with some Applications to Central Asian Regions
2021. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 97 (12), 1508–1513. doi:10.1007/s12594-021-1906-9 -
Siefert, D.; Wolfgramm, M.; Kölbel, T.; Glodny, J.; Kolb, J.; Eiche, E.
Geothermal reservoir rocks of the Büyük Menderes Graben (Turkey): stratigraphic correlation by a multiproxy approach
2021. Turkish journal of earth sciences, 30, 1008–1031. doi:10.3906/yer-2104-11 -
Bernasconi, S. M.; Daëron, M.; Bergmann, K. D.; Bonifacie, M.; Meckler, A. N.; Affek, H. P.; Anderson, N.; Bajnai, D.; Barkan, E.; Beverly, E.; Blamart, D.; Burgener, L.; Calmels, D.; Chaduteau, C.; Clog, M.; Davidheiser-Kroll, B.; Davies, A.; Dux, F.; Eiler, J.; Elliott, B.; Fetrow, A. C.; Fiebig, J.; Goldberg, S.; Hermoso, M.; Huntington, K. W.; Hyland, E.; Ingalls, M.; Jaggi, M.; John, C. M.; Jost, A. B.; Katz, S.; Kelson, J.; Kluge, T.; Kocken, I. J.; Laskar, A.; Leutert, T. J.; Liang, D.; Lucarelli, J.; Mackey, T. J.; Mangenot, X.; Meinicke, N.; Modestou, S. E.; Müller, I. A.; Murray, S.; Neary, A.; Packard, N.; Passey, B. H.; Pelletier, E.; Petersen, S.; Piasecki, A.; Schauer, A.; Snell, K. E.; Swart, P. K.; Tripati, A.; Upadhyay, D.; Vennemann, T.; Winkelstern, I.; Yarian, D.; Yoshida, N.; Zhang, N.; Ziegler, M.
InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards
2021. Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems, 22 (5), Art.Nr.e2020GC009588. doi:10.1029/2020GC009588 -
Ismail-Zadeh, A.
Natural hazards and climate change are not drivers of disasters
2021. Natural hazards. doi:10.1007/s11069-021-05100-1 -
Späth, M.; Spruženiece, L.; Urai, J. L.; Selzer, M.; Arndt, M.; Nestler, B.
Kinematics of Crystal Growth in Single‐Seal Syntaxial Veins in Limestone ‐ A Phase‐Field Study
2021. Journal of geophysical research / Solid earth, 126 (10), e2021JB022106. doi:10.1029/2021JB022106 -
Banks, J.; Poulette, S.; Grimmer, J.; Bauer, F.; Schill, E.
Geochemical Changes Associated with High-Temperature Heat Storage at Intermediate Depth: Thermodynamic Equilibrium Models for the DeepStor Site in the Upper Rhine Graben, Germany
2021. Energies, 14 (19), 6089. doi:10.3390/en14196089 -
Haaf, N.; Schill, E.
“Noise” during long-term continuous magnetotelluric monitoring of RN-15/IDDP-2 well engineering (Reykjanes peninsular, Iceland): A geogenic origin?
2021. Geothermics, 96, Article: 102192. doi:10.1016/j.geothermics.2021.102192 -
Wannous, M.; Theilen-Willige, B.; Troeger, U.; Falk, M.; Siebert, C.; Bauer, F.
Hydrochemistry and environmental isotopes of spring water and their relation to structure and lithology identified with remote sensing methods in Wadi Araba, Egypt
2021. Hydrogeology journal, 29 (6), 2245–2266. doi:10.1007/s10040-021-02343-x -
Wannous, M.; Jahnke, C.; Troeger, U.; Falk, M.; Bauer, F.
Hydrochemistry and environmental isotopes (O, H, H, He/He) of groundwater and floodwater in the great area of Hurghada, Eastern Desert of Egypt
2021. Environmental Earth Sciences, 80 (11), Art.-Nr. 407. doi:10.1007/s12665-021-09487-9 -
Kontar, Y. Y.; Ismail-Zadeh, A.; Berkman, P. A.; Duda, P. I.; Gluckman, S. P.; Kelman, I.; Murray, V.
Knowledge exchange through science diplomacy to assist disaster risk reduction
2021. Progress in disaster science, 11, Article no: 100188. doi:10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100188 -
Spruženiece, L.; Späth, M.; Urai, J. L.; Ukar, E.; Selzer, M.; Nestler, B.
Wide-blocky veins explained by dependency of crystal growth rate on fracture surface type: Insights from phase-field modeling
2021. Geology, 49 (6), 641–646. doi:10.1130/G48472.1 -
Prajapati, N.; Späth, M.; Knecht, L.; Selzer, M.; Nestler, B.
Quantitative Phase-Field Modeling of Faceted Crystal Dissolution Processes
2021. Crystal growth & design, 21 (6), 3266–3279. doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01715 -
Starodubtseva, Y. V.; Starodubtsev, I. S.; Ismail-Zadeh, A. T.; Tsepelev, I. A.; Melnik, O. E.; Korotkii, A. I.
A Method for Magma Viscosity Assessment by Lava Dome Morphology
2021. Journal of volcanology and seismology, 15 (3), 159–168. doi:10.1134/S0742046321030064 -
Helfrich-Schkabarenko, A.; Ismail-Zadeh, A.; Sommer, A.
Active cloaking and illusion of electric potentials in electrostatics
2021. Scientific reports, 11 (1), Article: 10651. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89062-1 -
Egert, R.; Nitschke, F.; Gholami Korzani, M.; Kohl, T.
Stochastic 3D Navier‐Stokes Flow in Self‐Affine Fracture Geometries Controlled by Anisotropy and Channeling
2021. Geophysical research letters, 48 (9), e2020GL092138. doi:10.1029/2020GL092138 -
Esmaeilpour, M.; Gholami Korzani, M.
Analyzing Impacts of Interfacial Instabilities on the Sweeping Power of Newtonian Fluids to Immiscibly Displace Power-Law Materials
2021. Processes, 9 (5), 742. doi:10.3390/pr9050742 -
Tsepelev, I. A.; Ismail-Zadeh, A. T.; Melnik, O. E.
3D Numerical Modeling of the Summit Lake Lava Flow, Yellowstone, USA
2021. Izvestiya / Physics of the solid earth, 57 (2), 257–265. doi:10.1134/S1069351321020129 -
Seiz, M.; Offenhäuser, P.; Andersson, S.; Hötzer, J.; Hierl, H.; Nestler, B.; Resch, M.
Lustre I/O performance investigations on Hazel Hen: experiments and heuristics
2021. The journal of supercomputing. doi:10.1007/s11227-021-03730-7 -
Anderson, N. T.; Kelson, J. R.; Kele, S.; Daëron, M.; Bonifacie, M.; Horita, J.; Mackey, T. J.; John, C. M.; Kluge, T.; Petschnig, P.; Jost, A. B.; Huntington, K. W.; Bernasconi, S. M.; Bergmann, K. D.
A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5–1,100°C) Using Carbonate‐Based Standardization
2021. Geophysical research letters, 48 (7), No: e2020GL092069. doi:10.1029/2020GL092069 -
Ismail-Zadeh, A.
Data-driven Geodynamics
2021. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 97 (3), 223–226. doi:10.1007/s12594-021-1670-x -
Seiz, M.; Nestler, B.
Modelling and simulation of the freeze casting process with the phase-field method
2021. Computational materials science, 193, Art.-Nr.: 110410. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110410 -
Spruženiece, L.; Späth, M.; Urai, J. L.; Ukar, E.; Selzer, M.; Nestler, B.; Schwedt, A.
Formation of wide-blocky calcite veins by extreme growth competition
2021. Journal of the Geological Society, 178 (2), jgs2020–104. doi:10.1144/jgs2020-104 -
Breuer, S.; Schilling, F. R.
Anisotropic thermal transport properties of quartz: from −120 °C through the α-β phase transition
2021. European journal of mineralogy, 33 (1), 23–38. doi:10.5194/ejm-33-23-2021 -
Petrescu, L.; Borleanu, F.; Radulian, M.; Ismail-Zadeh, A.; Maţenco, L.
Tectonic regimes and stress patterns in the Vrancea Seismic Zone: Insights into intermediate-depth earthquake nests in locked collisional settings
2021. Tectonophysics, 799, Article no: 228688. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228688 -
Walter, B. F.; Giebel, R. J.; Steele-MacInnis, M.; Marks, M. A. W.; Kolb, J.; Markl, G.
Fluids associated with carbonatitic magmatism: A critical review and implications for carbonatite magma ascent
2021. Earth science reviews, 215, Art. Nr.: 103509. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103509 -
Esmaeilpour, M.; Gholami Korzani, M.
Enhancement of immiscible two-phase displacement flow by introducing nanoparticles and employing electro- and magneto-hydrodynamics
2021. Journal of petroleum science and engineering, 196, Art.-Nr.: 108044. doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2020.108044 -
Laxmipathy, V. P.; Wang, F.; Selzer, M.; Nestler, B.
A two-dimensional phase-field study on dendritic growth competition under convective conditions
2021. Computational materials science, 186, Art.-Nr.: 109964. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109964