A comprehensive review of tracer tests in enhanced geothermal systems

Y Ren, Y Kong, Z Pang, J Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tracers are materials injected into reservoirs of enhanced geothermal systems (EGSs) for
reservoir characterization and thermal performance assessment. This work presents a …

Artificial DNA in hydrology

JW Foppen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The use of artificial DNA (artDNA) in hydrological applications is becoming increasingly
popular, either in dissolved form (dissolved artDNA) or encapsulated and protected by a …

Hydraulic stimulation and fluid circulation experiments in underground laboratories: Step** up the scale towards engineered geothermal systems

VS Gischig, D Giardini, F Amann, M Hertrich… - … for Energy and the …, 2020 - Elsevier
The history of reservoir stimulation to extract geothermal energy from low permeability rock
(ie so-called petrothermal or engineered geothermal systems, EGS) highlights the difficulty …

Multiscale fractures integrated equivalent porous media method for simulating flow and solute transport in fracture-matrix system

L Ma, D Gao, J Qian, D Han, K **ng, H Ma, Y Deng - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The fracture–matrix system, in which water is stored and transported, has a significant
impact on the hydraulic behaviors of fractured geologic media (FGM). However, it is very …

Predicting thermal performance of an enhanced geothermal system from tracer tests in a data assimilation framework

H Wu, P Fu, AJ Hawkins, H Tang… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the thermal performance of an enhanced geothermal system (EGS) requires a
comprehensive characterization of the underlying fracture flow patterns from practically …

Anomalous transport of colloids in heterogeneous porous media: A multi-scale statistical theory

D Fan, E Chapman, A Khan, F Iacoviello… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Transport of suspended colloids in heterogeneous porous media is a multi-scale
process that exhibits anomalous behavior and cannot be described by the Fickian …

Transient hydraulic tomography approach to characterize main flowpaths and their connectivity in fractured media

M Klepikova, B Brixel, M Jalali - Advances in Water Resources, 2020 - Elsevier
In sparse fracture systems flow and transport patterns are often dominated by main
flowpaths and characterized by a strong complexity induced by the fractures' surface …

Temperature stability and enhanced transport properties by surface modifications of silica nanoparticle tracers for geo-reservoir exploration

L Spitzmüller, J Berson, T Schimmel, T Kohl… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Tracer tests are an important tool for characterizing and monitoring subsurface reservoir
properties. However, they are limited both because of the tracer molecules constraining …

In-situ tracer test in fractured rocks for nuclear waste repository

Z Zhao, S Chen, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Wu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to sustained interest in underground nuclear waste repositories since the 1970s,
numerous in-situ tracer tests have been extensively conducted in underground research …

Magnetic nanoparticles to unique DNA tracers: Effect of functionalization on physico-chemical properties

A Sharma, JW Foppen, A Banerjee, S Sawssen… - Nanoscale research …, 2021 - Springer
To monitor and manage hydrological systems such as brooks, streams, rivers, the use of
tracers is a well-established process. Limited number of potential tracers such as salts …