Enabling Superhot Dry Rock Energy and Gigaton Carbon Storage
Profile
Enabling Superhot Dry Rock Energy and Gigaton Carbon Storage
PI: Jean-Phillipe Avouac
Research Team: Ruby Fu, Zach Ross, Allen Husker, Samson Marty, and Yijian Zhou
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Climate Science Initiative
This project will address fundamental roadblocks to the development of superhot enhanced geothermal systems, and subsurface storage of CO2 at the large scale needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. These operations involve injection or extraction of supercritical fluids in the subsurface, heat exchange with the rock formation, hydraulic fracturing and carry a risk of induced earthquakes. The project aims at monitoring and understanding these processes in collaboration with industry partners who are currently conducting field scale operations