Effect of Vertical Heterogeneity on Long-Term Migration of CO2 in Saline Formations

Energy Procedia

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1823-1830

  Green, C ^b   Ennis King, J ^a,b   Pruess, K ^c  

^a Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Technologies ^*

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Convection; Saline aquifer; Upscaling; Vertical permeability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BREAKTHROUGH TIME; CONVECTION; FREE-GAS PHASE; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; IMPERMEABLE BARRIERS; INJECTION RATES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ONSET-TIME; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SALINE AQUIFER; SALINE FORMATION; SIMPLE MODEL; TWO-DIMENSION; UPSCALING; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES; VERTICAL PERMEABILITY;

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DISSOLUTION;

CAPILLARITY;

EID: 67650109463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18766102     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.01.238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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