• press release Out of sight, not out of mind
Starting in September, the DFG (German Research Foundation) will be supporting a new Priority Programme for rhizosphere research with €6 million in funding. It will be coordinated at UFZ, with 18 German research institutions involved in 25 projects.»
UFZ environmental biotechnologists Prof. Roland A. Müller and Dr. Manfred van Afferden, UFZ economist Dr. Mi-Yong Lee and Wolf-Michael Hirschfeld built a new wastewater sector in Jordan. Federal President Steinmeier to grant award in Erfurt on 28 October.»
At the final conference in June, project members from 39 institutions in 17 countries met at the UFZ in Leipzig. In the video you get an interesting insight into the results of SOLUTIONS and the importance of this project from different perspectives.»
The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society presents an overview on conceptually and methodologically exciting research on energy-society relations that has evolved dramatically over the past decade.»
International scientists gave an insight into their current research on bacteria, fungi and algae and their work in very different areas of everyday life. To watch the six presentations, visit our youtube channel.»
Geothermal energy is one of the most promising renewable energies due to its independence of climate. As clean energy demands increasing all over the world, how to use this kind of energy economically and environmentally becomes increasingly important. So far, geothermal energy can be utilized to meet buildings’ heat and cool demand and electricity generation. Usually, there are two kinds of systems implemented to extract geothermal energy according to the circulating way of heat-carrier fluid, open loop system and closed loop system. However, the temperature variation in geothermal reservoir is still uneasy to predict while exploiting geothermal energy because of the complicated coupling processes. In this context, OpenGeoSys, as an open source numerical software, has proven to be an powerful tool to simulate and evaluate the Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) processes, will be used to investigate the performance and sustainability of geothermal system. In my research, simulating the system of Deep Borehole Heat Exchanger (DBHE) coupled Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) wound be the first two year's task, which is mainly utilized to extract deep geothermal energy for building heating. After that, a typical open loop system called Enhanced Geothermal System will be studied for better design of the geothermal plant.
