Carbon mineralization in fractured mafic and ultramafic rocks: A review

H Nisbet, G Buscarnera, JW Carey… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral carbon storage in mafic and ultramafic rock masses has the potential to be an
effective and permanent mechanism to reduce anthropogenic CO2. Several successful pilot …

Seismic response of hectometer‐scale fracture systems to hydraulic stimulation in the Bedretto Underground laboratory, Switzerland

A Obermann, M Rosskopf, V Durand… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We performed a series of hydraulic stimulations at 1.1 km depth in the Bedretto underground
laboratory, Switzerland, as part of an overall research strategy attempting to understand …

DNA-based tracers for the characterization of hydrogeological systems—Recent advances and new Frontiers

Y Zhang, T Huang - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tracer technologies based on naturally occurring substances or intentionally introduced
compounds have a broad spectrum of applications in hydrogeological research and …

Three‐dimensional thermoporoelastic modeling of hydrofracturing and fluid circulation in hot dry rock

S Li, D Zhang - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Geothermal energy, featured as a renewable low‐carbon energy resource, exhibits great
potential in mitigating global warming. However, efficient mining of geothermal energy from …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-disciplinary characterizations of the BedrettoLab–a new underground geoscience research facility

X Ma, M Hertrich, F Amann, K Bröker… - Solid Earth, 2022 - se.copernicus.org
The increased interest in subsurface development (eg, unconventional hydrocarbon,
engineered geothermal systems (EGSs), waste disposal) and the associated (triggered or …

Heat extraction performance of fractured geothermal reservoirs considering aperture variability

X Gao, Y Zhang, Y Cheng, Z Yu, Z Hu, Y Huang - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
It is still a challenging task to explain the uncertainty of the production of fractured
geothermal reservoirs by using a parallel plate model without considering the variable …

A catalogue of fiber optics strain-rate fracture driven interactions

G Ugueto, K Wu, G Jin, Z Zhang, J Haffener… - SPE Hydraulic …, 2023 - onepetro.org
The downhole monitoring of strain using Fiber Optics (FO) can reveal unique information
about the propagation and geometry of hydraulic fractures between nearby wells during …

Hydro‐mechanical measurements of sheared crystalline rock fractures with applications for EGS Collab Experiments 1 and 2

M Meng, LP Frash, W Li, NJ Welch… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present hydro‐mechanical measurements that characterize shear on natural fractures in
schist, amphibolite, and rhyolite specimens from the enhanced geothermal system (EGS) …

Crustal permeability generated through microearthquakes is constrained by seismic moment

P Yu, A Mali, T Velaga, A Bi, J Yu, C Marone… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We link changes in crustal permeability to informative features of microearthquakes (MEQs)
using two field hydraulic stimulation experiments where both MEQs and permeability …

Laboratory hydraulic shearing of granitic fractures with surface roughness under stress states of EGS: permeability changes and energy balance

T Ishibashi, H Asanuma, Y Mukuhira… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
To offer key parameters and constitutive laws required for field-scale multiphysics
simulations that can accurately predict created fracture network structures in enhanced …