Capillary pressure and saturation relations for supercritical CO 2 and brine in sand: High-pressure Pc(Sw) controller/meter measurements and capillary scaling predictions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4566-4579

  Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a   Wan, Jiamin ^a   Jung, Jong Won ^a,b   Kim, Tae Wook ^a,c   Kim, Yongman ^a   Dong, Wenming ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

capillary pressure; capillary scaling; geologic carbon sequestration; wettability

Indexed keywords

AIR; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CARBON CAPTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; WETTING;

CAPILLARY SCALING; GEOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATIONS; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR; IMBIBITION PROCESS; NON-WETTING PHASIS; SCALING PREDICTION; SUPERCRITICAL CO2; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84880854393     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20316     Document Type: Article

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