The evolving role of geothermal energy for decarbonizing the United States

JW Tester, KF Beckers, AJ Hawkins… - Energy & environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Geothermal energy is often referred to as a niche technology that is too localized, too small
or too expensive to make much of a difference in how renewable energy will be supplied in …

In situ remediation of subsurface contamination: opportunities and challenges for nanotechnology and advanced materials

T Zhang, GV Lowry, NL Capiro, J Chen… - Environmental …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex subsurface contamination domains and limited efficacy of existing treatment
approaches pose significant challenges to site remediation and underscore the need for …

Dissolution control and stability improvement of silica nanoparticles in aqueous media

L Spitzmüller, F Nitschke, B Rudolph, J Berson… - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2023 - Springer
Silica nanoparticles have become an important tool in material sciences, nanomedicine,
biotechnology, and pharmaceutics, with recent suggested applications also in …

A comprehensive review of tracer tests in enhanced geothermal systems

Y Ren, Y Kong, Z Pang, J Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tracers are materials injected into reservoirs of enhanced geothermal systems (EGSs) for
reservoir characterization and thermal performance assessment. This work presents a …

Silica-encapsulated DNA-based tracers for aquifer characterization

G Mikutis, CA Deuber, L Schmid, A Kittilä… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Environmental tracing is a direct way to characterize aquifers, evaluate the solute transfer
parameter in underground reservoirs, and track contamination. By performing multitracer …

In-situ tracer test in fractured rocks for nuclear waste repository

Z Zhao, S Chen, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Wu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to sustained interest in underground nuclear waste repositories since the 1970s,
numerous in-situ tracer tests have been extensively conducted in underground research …

Field comparison of DNA‐labeled nanoparticle and solute tracer transport in a fractured crystalline rock

A Kittilä, MR Jalali, KF Evans… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Field tracer experiments were conducted to examine tracer transport properties in a fracture‐
dominated crystalline rock mass at the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland. In the experiments …

Imaging hydraulic conductivity in near-surface aquifers by complementing cross-borehole induced polarization with hydraulic experiments

L Römhild, G Fiandaca, L Hu, L Meyer… - Advances in Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Precise information about the spatial distribution of hydraulic conductivity (K) in an aquifer is
essential for the reliable modeling of groundwater flow and transport processes. In this …

Anomalous transport of colloids in heterogeneous porous media: A multi-scale statistical theory

D Fan, E Chapman, A Khan, F Iacoviello… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Transport of suspended colloids in heterogeneous porous media is a multi-scale
process that exhibits anomalous behavior and cannot be described by the Fickian …

Advanced workflow for multi-well tracer test analysis in a geothermal reservoir

S Erol, P Bayer, T Akın, S Akın - Geothermics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Interpretation of tracer tests in geothermal reservoirs is carried out by fitting the
measured data either with simplified two-dimensional (2-D) analytical solutions or with …