Pore-scale study of transverse mixing induced CaCO3 precipitation and permeability reduction in a model subsurface sedimentary system

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 7833-7838

  Zhang, Changyong ^a   Dehoff, Karl ^b   Hess, Nancy ^a   Oostrom, Mart ^a   Wietsma, Thomas W ^c   Valocchi, Albert J ^b   Fouke, Bruce W ^d   Werth, Charles J ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CALCITE CRYSTALS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FLOW DIRECTION; FLUORESCENT TRACERS; GROUND WATER REMEDIATION; MINERAL PRECIPITATION; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; PORE SPACE; PRECIPITATION RATES; SATURATION STATE; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; STORAGE EFFICIENCY; TRANSVERSE MIXING; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VATERITE;

CALCITE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; GROUNDWATER; INLET FLOW; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON WAFERS; SODIUM;

CARBONATE MINERALS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GROUND WATER; SILICON;

CALCITE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REMEDIATION; TRACER; TURBULENT MIXING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CRYSTAL; DIFFUSION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PLUME; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION; RATING SCALE; REDUCTION KINETICS; SEDIMENTATION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERMEABILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 77958024688     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1019788     Document Type: Article

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