Impact of Capillary Pressure, Salinity and In situ Conditions on CO2 Injection into Saline Aquifers

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 799-819

  Alkan, H ^a   Cinar, Y ^b   Ulker E B ^c  

^a ISTec Institute for Safety Technology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; CO2 injection; Dissolution; Drying out; Saline aquifers

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CO2 INJECTION; COMBINED EFFECT; FORMATION WATER; GRAVITY SEGREGATION; HIGH INJECTION; IN-SITU; INJECTION PRESSURES; INJECTION RATES; INJECTIVITY; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; ROCK INTERACTION; SALINE AQUIFERS; SALT PRECIPITATION; STORAGE CAPACITY; THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS;

AQUIFERS; BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPRESSIBILITY; DISSOLUTION; DRYING; HYDROGEOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

WATER INJECTION;

AQUIFER; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISSOLUTION; FORMATION WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77956012112     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9541-8     Document Type: Article

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