Associate professor
University of Miskolc
Tamás Madarász, geologist engineer. MSc and PhD from University of Miskolc. Head of the Institute of Environmental Management at the University of Miskolc. His research area is related to environmental geology, contaminated site remediation design and human health risk assessment. He took part in more than 40 contaminated site remediation projects, his teaching experience covers programs in risk assessment, site remediation and well drilling and completion subjects. He has been involved in numerous EU funded and domestic research projects, in most of them as a coordinator. Member of NICOLE and IAH. He is the member of the Coordinating Team of the CHPM2030 H2020 project.
CHPM2030 - A novel research concept of combined heat power and metal extraction from geothermal brines
CHPM2030 is a 42-months H2020 project funded by the European Commission that started on 1 January 2016. CHPM2030 aims to develop a novel and potentially disruptive technology solution that can help satisfy the European needs for energy and strategic metals in a single interlinked process. Working at the frontiers of geothermal resources development, minerals extraction and electro-metallurgy the project aims at converting ultra-deep metallic mineral formations into an “orebody-Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)” that will serve as a basis for the development of a new type of facility for “Combined Heat, Power and Metal Extraction” (CHPM). In the envisioned technology the metalbearing geological formation will be manipulated in a way that the co-production of energy and metals will be possible, and may be optimised according to the market demands at any given moment in the future.