GeoTU6 – a geothermal Research Project for Tunnels

Thanks to the logging of data from the operation of the Jenbach thermal power plant since 2012, and also from additional tests, it is now possible to make more detailed statements about the energy...

1 Introduction About 32 % of the German energy consumption is used for the provision of heating and hot water in buildings, which corresponds to 40 % of all CO2 emissions. The share of renewable...

Temperatures in the ground are not distributed evenly. Outside of Europe there are sections of the earth’s crust, where the geothermal depth range amounts to between 90 and 125 m/°C, whereas in...

The deep geothermal exploitation of energy in the form of heat and electricity is bound to grow considerably in significance both ecologically and economically in future owing to the scarcity of...

1 Introduction and Objective At Düsseldorf airport, the future line U81 will run through an underground section with a running tunnel and the underground station “Flughafen-Terminal” (Fig. 1)....