Community Talks - Decarbonization Patterns
Tuesday 8 December, 17:00 - 18:00 CET
Speakers
Hadi Hajibeygi is an associate professor at TU Delft, where he teaches and leads research on modeling, simulation and sensitivity analysis of subsurface processes for large-scale renewable energy storage, geo-energy exploitation, and greenhouse gas storage. He co-leads Delft Advanced Reservoir Simulation (DARSim) and Leads TU Delft Subsurface Storage Theme. He has been co-chair of the Interpore scientific program committee for 3 years, and is in the committee of ECMOR & MIT Energy Symposium. He was the most Innovative Teaching Talent of TU Delft in 2018, and holds PhD (with medal) from ETH Zurich, and has experience with Chevron Energy Technology Company in California. He did his post-doctoral research at Stanford University, until 2013 when he joined TU Delft. He is a Dutch National Science ViDi Laurette of 2019.
Subsurface Energy Storage: the largest battery ever is under our feet!
Subsurface geological formations provide giant capacities for storing renewable energy, when it is converted into green gas (e.g. hydrogen) or compressed and hot fluids. While the utilisation of subsurface formations have a long track of success in the past decades, their successful contribution in the energy transition towards a green world comes with new scientific challenges too. The cyclically stored fluids are expected not only to be stored safely, but to be reclaimed efficiently and with the same purity as in the injection phase. The critical stress also will impose restrictions on the volume, rate, and frequency of the storage cycles. In this talk, I will introduce this exciting topic to the EAGE colleagues and open a discussion about its technical feasibility.
János Szanyi is a professor at the University of Szeged Hungary. He has graduated master degree from the József Attila University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, majoring in Mathematical and Computer Science, and Geology. He has a PhD in Environmental Sciences. Finally he is specialized in Hydrogeology as a Hydrogeologist-engineer at the Miskolc University, Hungary. After the university years he worked for the Hungarian Geological Survey for 12 years, first as a field geologist later as a head of the Regional Office in Szeged. At the university, and even in Hungarian Geological Survey years he took part in many hydrogeological and geothermal activities, like planning and doing field work, organizing geothermal database. He coordinated several international geothermal projects, which dealt with transboundary aquifers. He also took part as a modeler expert and project manager for several geothermal energy utilization projects. He has lectures in Hydrogeology, Modelling groundwater and heat flow, and Geothermics. He is the coordinator of the PE on Geothermal Energy at EFG.
Working at the frontiers of geothermal resources development and minerals extraction
Geothermal energy is widely known for its reliable, weather-independent and renewable nature. It is commonly used in many countries all over the world for power generation purposes and direct heat applications. But there is also a third additional utilization option. Working on the frontiers of the development of geothermal resources may provide an opportunity to transform ultra-deep metallic mineral formations into “orebody-Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)”. In the imagined technology, the metal-containing geological formation is manipulated in such a way that cogeneration of energy and metals is possible and can be optimized in the future according to market needs. My presentation is about research on the application of new types of metal leaching technologies.
Hosts
Diego Rovetta is a research geophysicist working for Aramco on multi-geophysics integration and joint inversion. He received his MSc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering (2002) and his Ph.D. in Information Engineering (2006) from Politecnico di Milano, studying inverse problem applications. Diego is currently the president of the EAGE Local Chapter Netherlands.
Joeri Brackenhoff is a Ph.D. candidate at Delft University of Technology working on wave propagation and the monitoring and forecasting of induced seismicity. He received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Geophysics from the IDEA League, a joint master between TU Delft, ETH Zürich and RWTH Aachen in 2016. He is the former president of the EAGE student chapter of TU Delft and is currently a board member of the EAGE local chapter Netherlands.
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