RockDefTUD

Disco-salt! This is a very salty day, meeting with PhD Jop on his salt project but also sitting in a national salt meeting talking about what's happening in salt. This salt block is standing in our lab post-lab-torture 😁 happy Friday all!

For those at the European #geothermal congress: go see @entelakane.bsky.social , in session 6F: Rock mechanics and petrophysics, Gartensaal 1A

3 months of failed attempts but finally some progress on pressing our own salt samples from NaCl powder #teamSalt not yet perfect but at least it doesn't crumble...

Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for CCS - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for CCS

Our former postdoc Kai Li started his new job at KIT Karlsruhe already in January, but nonetheless he has been diligently working on publishing his postdoc "Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for #CCS" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's basalt time! Working on a few samples for Njord Oslo, who invited Anne to join their trip to PSI in November to shoot neutrons at rocks again

Team Salt on the move! Brazilian disc testing with camera plus acoustics on healed samples fractured last spring 🤓😁

Tonight our team caught the last rays of the summer sun in the pretty area of Meijendel, near the beach 🥰

Former PD Debanjan Chandra is visiting from Norway to run experiments with an #EPOS-NL grant and he is explaining his new experiments whilst monitoring his stuff. Multi-tasking at its finest!

A first attempt at cold pressing our own salt samples, which will be baked afterwards for Jops PhD project. If anyone has any tips, we gladly take them!

Want to come break rocks with us? Or scan some of your pretty samples? Apply for #EPOS funding! epos-nl.nl/facilities/

*he=Milad Naderloo, in case the algorithm only showed the second post 😅

Even more proud as a supervisor: he won the best presentation prize ❤️🤓💪💪💪

Proud of our postdoc Milad Naderloo, presenting his work on sandstone-H2 interaction at the #hydrogenstorage summer school!

@entelakane.bsky.social branching out from geothermal energy to H2 storage ❤️🤓

The last batch of experiments for @entelakane.bsky.social will take place in Utrecht at TNO, thanks to #EPOSNL funding 🤓

At least microstructures are small... All these 30 mm rock cores are adding up 🤭

Question to those rock crushing people out there: how long do you keep your post-experimental samples after a project finished? Here we are contemplating 2-5 years post-publication.... Though the thought of tossing those beauties away pains us :( we are seriously struggling for space!

Almost back home after looking at broken rocks with our 2nd year BSc students in France. Also for lab rats it's energizing to see faults in their natural habitat!

At this year's #EAGEAnnual2025 my colleague Anne gave a truly passionate and compassionate pitch why #geoscience #education needs to become more inclusive and diverse if we are serious about inspiring new talents to enter this field and work on the #energytransition @rockdeftud.bsky.social ⚒️💡🔋

It's a bit quiet on here, since Anne is in the field with our 2nd year students :) now in the train to EAGE for a panel discussion about education in geosciences in these times of energy transition...

More BSc thesis time! Jesse worked today with BSc Iris to scan the heterogeneous Rotliegend cores .. always good to scan before breaking! #breakingrocks #rocks

We made use of the spring weather to do a lab&friends BBQ at Anne's place, including our wonderful BSc and MSc students... Always good to have good food and good company!

Not a basket full of cookies but a small box of different types of saw cut Dinantian samples. If I were a grandmother, it'd be totally my kind of gift!

PhD Jesse came by in the afternoon and made my day with these freshly cored heterogeneous #Rotliegend #sandstone samples for #CrossScale w/ @geoenergyprof.bsky.social Aren't they pretty? Next: cutting them (and deciding where...), CT scan, porosimetry and then... Break them! 😎😎 #breakingrocks #rocks

Summer School

Interested in #CCS? Our colleagues Denis Voskov and Rouhi Farajzadeh are organising the 11th edition of the CCUS summer school 30 June to 4 July. Subscriptions until 15 May www.tudelft.nl/citg/over-fa...

Meanwhile in Delft the thesis season is in full swing... Sybrand is now nicely into obtaining his Brazilian disc dataset on salt samples for his BSc thesis with Jop and Shihao

Today it was former PD Debanjan Chandra who took the stage, to talk about using sonic velocities to monitor CO2 plume migration #CCS #breakingrocks #rocks

Proud of the current and former team 🤓🤘💪

If you are at #EGU25 and into structural geology, fieldwork, faults, tectonics and thinking about the future of Structural Geology and Tectonics @egu.eu @ts.egu.eu @structuralgeology.bsky.social @joaocduarte.bsky.social , please come to the overarching session discussing the field, at 16h in 0.51!