Subsurface Environmental Processes
The main objective of our research is to quantify the links between the physical heterogeneity of subsurface environments, including porous and fractured media, the heterogeneity of the resulting flow fields, and the effective transport behavior, including solute dispersion, mixing, and (bio-)chemical reactions. We tackle these problems using both experiments — performed over scales ranging from micro to field scale — and (numerical and theoretical) modelling. The environmental and industrial applications of our research include the study of the impact of climate change on groundwater resources, remediation of polluted sites, nuclear waste storage, geothermal energy, geological sequestration of CO2, recovery of hydrocarbons, and hydraulic fracturing.
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New publication
January 22, 2022
A review on how pore-scale processes control biomineralization and suggestions on how to tame it published in Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology. This has been a collaborati... SEP Group is now a member of the World Food System Center!
December 20, 2021
It is a great honor to be part of the competence center World Food System Center. Looking forward to contributing to sustainability and food security from a water resources angle!
Podcast aims at young women to inform and motivate them to get into engineering
November 25, 2021
The podcast aims at young women to inform and motivate them to get into engineering. If you are curious about why Dorothee Kurz studied Bioprocess engineering, why she chose to switch unive...