Geothermal Energy and Geofluids
The group conducts research in geophysical fluid dynamics of subsurface multiphase, multicomponent, reactive fluid and energy transfer over multiple scales employing computer simulations, laboratory experiments, and field analyses.
The Geothermal Energy and Geofluids group is endowed by the 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
- 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
The group is lead by Martin O. Saar.
Power generation: the ideal transcritical power cycle
Contact
Prof. Dr. Martin O. Saar
Full Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences
Institut für Geophysik
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092
Zürich
Switzerland
