Residual trapping, solubility trapping and capillary pinning complement each other to limit CO2 migration in deep saline aquifers

Energy Procedia

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 3833-3839

  Zhao, Benzhong ^a   MacMinn, Christopher W ^b   Juanes, Ruben ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary pinning; Capillary trapping; Convective dissolution; Geologic storage; Migration distance; Post injection; Sharp interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922933531     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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