Effect of fluid topology on residual nonwetting phase trapping: Implications for geologic CO2 sequestration

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-58

  Herring, Anna L ^a   Harper, Elizabeth J ^a   Andersson, Linnéa ^a   Sheppard, Adrian ^b   Bay, Brian K ^a   Wildenschild, Dorthe ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary trapping; CO2 sequestration; Connectivity; Porous media; Topology; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CAPILLARY TRAPPING; CONNECTIVITY; PHASE CONNECTIVITIES; PHASE SATURATIONS; SUPERCRITICAL CO; X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

AIR; CAPILLARITY; EXPERIMENTS; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; SINTERING; TOPOLOGY; X RAYS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONNECTIVITY; DRAINAGE; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; SANDSTONE; SATURATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOLOGY; TUFF;

EID: 84887101161     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.09.015     Document Type: Article

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