Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) offer tremendous potential to support energy security in the US and worldwide. Dr. Neupane will discuss the EGS Collab Project. This program brought together researchers and engineers from multiple national labs, universities and commercial entities. The group performed process and model validations to look at how generating appropriate hydraulic communication between injection and production wells could allow for more effective energy source mining. He will discuss the results and lessons learned during the six-year program to better our understanding of stimulation in crystalline rock for improving EGS.
Bio:
Dr. Ghanashyam “Hari” Neupane is a subsurface research scientist & experimentalist at INL. Hari worked as INL’s principal investigator and task lead for tracer and earth modeling efforts for EGS Collab project. His current work ranges from laboratory simulation of geothermal and thermal energy storage reservoirs to geochemical modeling, geothermal exploration, critical minerals in geothermal and oil & gas brines, in situ mining critical minerals, and carbon dioxide mineralization in mafic rocks.
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