Dr. Haibing Shao Staff Scientist (Tenure-Track) Leader of the Group Geothermal System Analysis Contact Department Environmental Informatics Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ Permoserstr. 15, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel: +49 341 6025 1884 Email: haibing(dot)shao(at)ufz(dot)de |
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General Research Topics
- Shallow Geothermal- Numerical modeling of heat transfer between Borehole Heat Exchangers and surrounding subsurface
- Analysis and optimization of long-term performance of Ground Source Heat Pump System (GSHP)
- Application of shallow subsurface for thermal storage - Deep Geothermal- Geothermal reservoir numerical model construction and analysis
- Analysis of coupled processes in the vicinity of wellbore
- Modelling partially saturated and multiphase flow process in the subsurface, with particular focus on the non-isothermal phase change behavior.
- Scaling and corrosion issues in high-temperature geothermal reservoirs - Reactive Transport Modeling- Numerical modeling of water-rock interactions
- Geochemical processes under high temperature high pressure environment
- Geochemically coupled processes in the context of nuclear waste repository - Software Development
- Implementation of relevant numerical schemes and features for the scientific software OpenGeoSys.
Current Research Projects
Featured Recent Publications
* Corresponding author
- Vehling, F., Kosakowski, G., Shao, H. (2024): Two-phase reactive transport modeling of heterogeneous gas production in a low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste repository, Appl. Geochem., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2024.106219
- Selzer, P., Shao, H., Behrens, C., Lehmann, C., Seydewitz, R., Lu, R., Kreye, P., Rühaak, W., Kolditz, O. (2024): The value of simplified models of radionuclide transport for the safety assessment of nuclear waste repositories: A benchmark study, J. Contam. Hydrol. 267 , art. 104417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104417
- Cai, W., Wang, F., Chen, S., Chen, C., Zhang, Y., Kolditz, O., Shao, H.*, (2022): Importance of long-term ground-loop temperature variation in performance optimization of Ground Source Heat Pump system
Appl. Therm. Eng. 204 , art. 117945. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117945 - Chen, C., Witte, F., Tuschy, I., Kolditz, O., Shao, H.*, (2022): Parametric optimization and comparative study of an organic Rankine cycle power plant for two-phase geothermal sources, Energy 252 , art. 123910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.123910
- Lu, R., Nagel, T., Poonoosamy, J., Naumov, D., Fischer, T., Montoya, V., Kolditz, O., Shao, H.*, (2022): A new operator-splitting finite element scheme for reactive transport modeling in saturated porous media, Comput. Geosci. 163 , art. 105106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2022.10510
ISI listed journal publications as of 12.2024: 57,
with 2300+ citations and an h-index of 27
For the detailed publication list, please refer to my profile on the following websites:
Web of Science, ResearchGate, ORCID
Teaching Experience
- Winter Semester 2014 - 2019
Lecture, exercise and practice: Geoströmungsmodellierung (Geo-Fluid Modeling)
3 SWS, TU Bergakamedie Freiberg (TUBAF)
- Winter Semester 2015 - 2019
Lecture: Hydrogeological Flow and Transport Modelling for GW-Management
4 SWS together with Dr. Nils Hothe, TU Bergakamedie Freiberg (TUBAF)
Career
since 08.2018
Staff Scientist (Tenure-Track), Group Leader
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany;
05.2014 -04.2020
W1-Junior Professor “Geothermal System Analysis”
in the Faculty of Geoscience, Geotechnics and Mining,
TU Bergakamedie Freiberg (TUBAF)
04.2010 – 10.2010
Earth Science Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.,
visiting researcher on the topic of numerical modeling of CO2 geological sequestration process.
08.2009 - 07.2018
PostDoc Research Assistant, Staff Scientist.
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany;
Education
PhD: 06.2007 – 07.2010
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden)
Grade: magna cum laude (sehr gut)
Master: 09.2005 – 05.2007
Applied Environmental Geosciences,
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
Grade: 1.2/5 (excellent)
Bachelor: 09. 2001 – 08. 2005
Environmental Engineering,
Tongji University, Shanghai, China