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Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences |
Main geothermal research topics:
- Exploration and characterisation (i.e. providing solutions to discover targets for urban heating and subsurface storage)
- Underground Target Engineering (i.e. workflows to develop targets for the energetic underground use)
- Exploitation and monitoring (i.e. exploitation technologies demonstrated by operation of plants to recover geothermal heat)
Laboratories / Sites:
https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/geoenergy/infrastructure/
- Labs for rock (incl mechanics) and fluid physics, fluid-fluid-rock/mineral interactions, seismic & electrical tomography (Lab and field)
- Geothermal well logging tools incl. fibre optics, HTMC-modelling codes
- Operation of research platforms (Groß Schönebeck, innercity Berlin, …), integrative multimethod monitoring systems
Contact:
Katrin Kieling (katrin.kieling@gfz-potsdam.de)
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT |
Main geothermal research topics:
- Reservoir processes, engineering and monitoring,
- Geochemical processes in the thermal water circuit
Laboratories / Sites:
Contact:
Thomas Kohl (thomas.kohl@kit.edu)
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Technische Universität Darmstadt, Departament of Geothermal Science and Technology |
Main geothermal research topics:
- Reservoir characterization by determination of geothermal rock properties
- Simulation and measurements under reservoir conditions
- Fluid-formation-interaction
- Medium deep borehole thermal energy storage systems
- Direct and indirect utilization of geothermal energy for heating, cooling and thermal storage purposes
- Integration of geothermal systems into networks of other (renewable) energy systems
- Development and optimization of materials for geothermal and power line construction applications
- Thermal and hydraulic optimization of buried cable routes
Laboratories / Sites:
Contact:
Ingo Sass (sass@geo.tu-darmstadt.de@geo.tu-darmstadt.de)
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University of Bayreuth |
Main geothermal research topics:
- Process simulations and LCA of geothermal power plants
- Experimental investigations of power plant concepts
Laboratories / Sites:
- ORC test rigs
- Analytic devices for fluid properties of ORC working fluids
Contact:
Florian Heberle (florian.heberle@uni-bayreuth.de)
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Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems IEG |
Main geothermal research topics:
- Exploration and resevoir simulation
- Geothermal Geology
- Globle Georesources
Laboratories / Sites:
- Drilling operation
- Engery Technology
- Geoscience Laboratory
- Geotechnology Laboratory
- Field Scale Laboratory
- Reserach infrastructure
Contacts:
David Bruhn (david.bruhn@ieg.fraunhofer.de)
Florian Wellmann (florian.wellmann@ieg.fraunhofer.de)
Thomas Reinsch (thomas.reinsch@ieg.fraunhofer.de)
Isabella Nardini (isabella.nardini@ieg.fraunhofer.de)