Engineering Geology @ KIT Applied Geosciences

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Engineering geology is part of the Applied Geosciences Karlsruhe. It stands for geologically underpinned development in construction and mining, the energy sector, environmental technology as well as transport, supply and disposal infrastructures. Engineering geology is the link between geo and engineering sciences.

News

Klimawandel: Wärme im Untergrund kann recycelt werden

Wärme aus dem städtischen Untergrund kann nachhaltig zur Deckung des Heizbedarfs recycelt werden. Zum Artikel

Kathrin Menberg forscht zur nachhaltigen Nutzung der Geoenergie – Umfassende Unterstützung auf dem Weg zur Professur

Wrangell Programme Promotes KIT Geoscientist

Kathrin Menberg researches the sustainable use of geoenergy - Comprehensive support on the way to a professorship

Simple, precise, inexpensive: New method for researching groundwater

Researchers have developed a new method to investigate groundwater resources more cost-effectively, more simply and more comprehensively than before. To the article

Groundwater reservoirs help to save energy

Groundwater storage systems have proven to be more efficient and environmentally friendly alternatives to heating and cooling systems. To the article

Latest publications

Shallow subsurface heat recycling is a sustainable global space heating alternative
Benz, S. A.; Menberg, K.; Bayer, P.; Kurylyk, B. L.
2022. Nature Communications, 13, Article no: 3962. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31624-6

Experimental evidence for local thermal non-equilibrium during heat transport in sand representative of natural conditions
Baek, J.-Y.; Park, B.-H.; Rau, G. C.; Lee, K.-K.
2022. Journal of Hydrology, 608, Artk.Nr.: 127589. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127589

Tunnel geothermics – A review = Tunnelgeothermie – Ein Überblick
Stemmle, R.; Menberg, K.; Rybach, L.; Blum, P.
2022. Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 15 (1), 104–111. doi:10.1002/geot.202100084

Berechnung von Temperaturfahnen im Grundwasser mit analytischen und numerischen Modellen : Calculation of temperature plumes in groundwater with analytical and numerical models
Ohmer, M.; Klester, A.; Kissinger, A.; Mirbach, S.; Class, H.; Schneider, M.; Lindenlaub, M.; Bauer, M.; Liesch, T.; Menberg, K.; Blum, P.
2022. Grundwasser. doi:10.1007/s00767-022-00509-2

Global climate-driven trade-offs between the water retention and cooling benefits of urban greening
Cuthbert, M. O.; Rau, G. C.; Ekström, M.; O’Carroll, D. M.; Bates, A. J.
2022. Nature Communications, 13 (1), 518. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28160-8

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