Potential CO2 leakage reduction through biofilm-induced calcium carbonate precipitation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 142-149

  Phillips, Adrienne J ^a,b   Lauchnor, Ellen ^a   Eldring, Joachim ^a   Esposito, Richard ^c   Mitchell, Andrew C ^d   Gerlach, Robin ^a,b   Cunningham, Alfred B ^a   Spangler, Lee H ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

^c Southern Company Generation   (United States)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP ROCK; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; FRACTURE SEALING; HIGH PERMEABILITY; INJECTION PRESSURES; INJECTION WELLS; LEAKAGE REDUCTION; LOW VISCOSITY FLUIDS; MINERAL PRECIPITATION; MITIGATION STRATEGY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIUS OF INFLUENCES; SAND COLUMNS; SANDSTONE CORES; SEALING TECHNOLOGY; UREA HYDROLYSIS; WELL BORE;

BIOFILMS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SANDSTONE; SEALING (FINISHING); UREA;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; UREA;

ABANDONED LAND; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOFILM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CAP ROCK; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROLYSIS; LEAKAGE; MINERALIZATION; PERMEABILITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEALING;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; EFFLUENT; HYDROLYSIS; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; SPOROSARCINA PASTEURII; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPOROSARCINA;

SPOROSARCINA PASTEURII;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIOFILMS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; SPOROSARCINA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871793549     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301294q     Document Type: Article

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