Pore-scale controls on calcite dissolution rates from flow-through laboratory and numerical experiments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 7453-7460

  Molins, Sergi ^a   Trebotich, David ^a   Yang, Li ^a   Ajo Franklin, Jonathan B ^a   Ligocki, Terry J ^a   Shen, Chaopeng ^a   Steefel, Carl I ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; SURFACE REACTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; DIFFUSIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSPORT LIMITATION; SUB-SURFACE MATERIALS; SURFACE REACTION CONTROL; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

INLET FLOW;

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

CALCITE; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CAPILLARY TUBE; CAPILLARY WALL; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENT; GRAIN; KINETICS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LABORATORIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS; WATER;

EID: 84903708228     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5013438     Document Type: Article

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