Toughreact: A simulation program for subsurface reactive chemical transport under non-isothermal multiphase flow conditions

Groundwater Reactive Transport Models

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 74-95

  Xu, T ^a   Sonnenthal, E ^a   Spycher, N ^a   Zhang, G ^b   Zheng, L ^a   Pruess, K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 sequestration; Environmental remediation; Geothermal development; Nuclear waste disposal; Toughreact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884111867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2174/978160805306311201010074     Document Type: Chapter

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