Imaging wellbore cement degradation by carbon dioxide under geologic sequestration conditions using X-ray computed microtomography

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 283-289

  Jung, Hun Bok ^a   Jansik, Danielle ^a   Um, Wooyong ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CEMENT MATRIX; CEMENT PASTE; CHEMICAL DEGRADATION; GEOLOGIC SEQUESTRATIONS; HOST ROCKS; MATERIAL DENSITY; MICROSTRUCTURE CHANGES; NON DESTRUCTIVE; SATURATED WATER; STEEL CASING; STEEL COUPON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WELLBORE; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; PHOTODEGRADATION; POROSITY; PORTLAND CEMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEMENT; WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CEMENT; DEGRADATION; HOST ROCK; MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); STEEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DENSITY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HOT TEMPERATURE; MATERIALS TESTING; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SILICATES; STEEL; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871771896     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3012707     Document Type: Article

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