Chin-Fu Tsang

Project Experience

Dr. Tsang is principal investigator and project manager for a large number of projects over the years. These include projects on groundwater contaminant transport; underground thermal energy storage; geothermal reservoir modeling; deep injection disposal of hazardous wastes; basic study of reservoir dynamics; and technical issues in geologic disposal of nuclear wastes.  He initiated a number of new research areas for the Berkeley Laboratory, such as underground thermal energy storage, flowing borehole fluid logging methods, and coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in fractured rocks.

Further, he initiated, organized and served as the Director of the Russian-American Center for Contaminant Transport Studies at the Berkeley Laboratory, 1993-1998, and led the first joint Russian-American field test at the radioactively contaminated Mayak site at Chelyabinsk, Southern Urals, Russia.

He is also the Chair of the Steering Committee of the international DECOVALEX project, a research collaboration among over 10 countries on coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in geological systems, managed by SKI, Sweden, with Secretariat based at KTH, Stockholm, from 1992 to the present.