Lifetime of carbon capture and storage as a climate-change mitigation technology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5185-5189

  Szulczewski, Michael L ^a   MacMinn, Christopher W ^a   Herzog, Howard J ^b   Juanes, Ruben ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Pressure dissipation; Residual trapping; Solubility trapping

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; GEOLOGY; MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STORAGE; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859447695     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115347109     Document Type: Article

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