Dissolution trapping - Convection enhancement limited by geology

Energy Procedia

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 5467-5478

  Frykman, Peter ^a   Wessel Berg, Dag ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Convection; Diffusion; Dissolution; Storage security; Trapping mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922896584     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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