Mineral sequestration of carbon dioxide in basalt: A pre-injection overview of the CarbFix project

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 537-545

  Gislason, Sigurdur Reynir ^a   Wolff Boenisch, Domenik ^a   Stefansson, Andri ^a   Oelkers, Eric H ^b   Gunnlaugsson, Einar ^c   Sigurdardottir, Hólmfridur ^c   Sigfusson, Bergur ^c   Broecker, Wallace S ^d   Matter, Juerg M ^d   Stute, Martin ^d   Axelsson, Gudni ^e   Fridriksson, Thrainn ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c formerly at Iceland GeoSurvey   (Iceland)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e ICELAND GEOSURVEY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Basalt carbonation; Dissolution rate; Mineral carbonation; Mineral storage

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CARBONATION; DISSOLUTION; GLASS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESITE; POSITIVE IONS; SILICATE MINERALS; TEMPERATURE;

DISSOLUTION RATES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; GEOCHEMICAL MODELLING; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MINERAL CARBONATION; MINERAL SEQUESTRATION; MINERAL STORAGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BASALT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISSOLUTION; SILICATE MINERAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77950862132     PISSN: 17505836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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