Controlled CO 2 injection into heterogeneous geologic formations for improved solubility and residual trapping

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Shamshiri, Hossein ^a   Jafarpour, Behnam ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; AQUIFER PROPERTIES; AQUIFER STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; COMPETING MECHANISMS; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; HORIZONTAL CHANNELS; IMPROVED SOLUBILITY; INJECTION SCHEMES; LATERAL MIGRATION; LOW PERMEABILITY; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; POROSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; POSTINJECTION; ROCK PERMEABILITY; SALINE AQUIFERS; SENSITIVE ZONES; SHALE LAYERS; STORAGE MECHANISM; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; TRAPPING MECHANISMS; VERTICAL FLOWS;

AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUBILITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AQUIFER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEAKAGE; PERMEABILITY; PLUME; POROSITY; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84857853509     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010455     Document Type: Article

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