Upscaling geochemical reaction rates accompanying acidic CO 2-saturated brine flow in sandstone aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kim, D ^a   Peters, C A ^b   Lindquist, W B ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION METHOD; CONTINUUM MODEL; FLOW HETEROGENEITY; GEOCHEMICAL REACTION; MASS BALANCE; MICRO-SCALES; MINERAL DISTRIBUTION; NETWORK FLOW MODEL; NETWORK MODELS; PORE NETWORKS; RATE DEPENDENCE; RATE LAWS; SANDSTONE AQUIFER; SATURATED BRINES; UPSCALING;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISSOLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS;

REACTION RATES;

ACIDITY; ANORTHITE; AQUIFER; BRINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLOW REGULATION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KAOLINITE; REACTION KINETICS; SANDSTONE; SATURATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78751522151     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009472     Document Type: Article

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