The footprint of the CO2 plume during carbon dioxide storage in saline aquifers: Storage efficiency for capillary trapping at the basin scale

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-30

  Juanes, Ruben ^a   MacMinn, Christopher W ^a   Szulczewski, Michael L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity estimates; Capillary trapping; Geologic storage; Gravity currents; Hysteresis; Residual trapping; Saline aquifers; Sharp interface; Storage efficiency

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY TRAPPING; GEOLOGIC STORAGE; GRAVITY CURRENTS; SALINE AQUIFERS; STORAGE EFFICIENCY;

ADVECTION; AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYSTERESIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AQUIFER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MOBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINE INTRUSION;

EID: 76749170729     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9420-3     Document Type: Article

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