Inhaltsbereich
International Centre for Geothermal Research
Head of Centre: Dr. Ernst Huenges
The use of geothermal energy becomes an important issue of future energy supply within strategies for the mitigation of climate changes. The International Center for Geothermal Research (ICGR) meets this challenge by developing reliable geothermal technologies and innovative concepts of a sustainable economic energy supply. ICGR covers research in a holistic approach along the whole chain of geothermal technologies from the geothermal reservoir to the provision of power, heat, and chill. Especially, the center is focused to reduce risks and costs of geothermal exploration and exploitation and to expand accessible reservoirs addressing most of European and worldwide geological settings. The center offers a closely interface between research and industry bundling international geothermal expertise and experience in a global geothermal network based on self developed large scale hands on projects which plot the whole process for a geothermal energy supply.
Focus of Research & Development Activities
The demands on geothermal technology are:
- Improvement of reservoir characterisation and pre-drilling subsurface (geophysical) imaging of the target areas.
- Enhancement of the productivity of geothermal reservoirs by improving drilling and stimulation techniques.
- Ensurance of long-term operation and optimization of economic output of a plant by developing innovative subsurface monitoring-systems and
- Optimization of technical procedures for the recovery of energy from and energy storage within a variety of geological settings.
Poster:
Exploration (PDF)Poster:
Reservoirengineering (PDF)Poster:
Geothermal Energy Provision (PDF)
The following competence clusters provide multidisciplinary expertise:
- Exploration
- Rockphysics
- Reservoirmonitoring
- Reservoirengineering
- Plant Technology
- Microbial Geoengineering
- Geophysics