Experimental study on effects of geologic heterogeneity in enhancing dissolution trapping of supercritical CO2

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1635-1648

  Agartan, Elif ^a   Trevisan, Luca ^a   Cihan, Abdullah ^b   Birkholzer, Jens ^b   Zhou, Quanlin ^b   Illangasekare, Tissa H ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

convective mixing; geologic heterogeneity; low permeability zones; Small scale experimental analysis; stable trapping of dissolved CO2

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MIXING; NETWORK SECURITY; PROPYLENE; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

CONVECTIVE MIXING; DISSOLVED CO; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC HETEROGENEITY; LOW PERMEABILITY ZONE;

DISSOLUTION;

BRINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONVECTION; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; HOST ROCK; MIXING; PERMEABILITY; PLUME; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW;

EID: 85027923930     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015778     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Aggelopoulos, C. A., and, C. D. Tsakiroglou, (2012), Effects of micro-heterogeneity and hydrodynamic dispersion on the dissolution rate of carbon dioxide in water-saturated porous media, Int. J. Greenh. Gas Cont., 10, 341-350.
2. 2 in solution, Energy Convers. Manage., 44 (20), 3151-3175.
3. 2: Hydrodynamic and mineral trapping, Energy Convers. Manage., 35 (4), 269-279.
4. Backhaus, S., K. Turitsyn, and, R. E. Ecke, (2011), Convective instability and mass transport of diffusion layers in Hele-Shaw geometry, Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 104501, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.104501.
5. Beck, J. L., (1972), Convection in a box of porous material saturated with fluid, Phys. Fluids, 15 (8), 1377-1383.
6. Benson, S. M., and, P. Cook, (2005), Underground geological storage, in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, edited by, P. Freund, pp. 195-276, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
7. Cinar, Y., A. Riaz, and, H. A. Tchelepi, (2009), Experimental study of CO2 injection into saline formations, SPEJ Soc. Pet. Eng. J., 14 (4), 588-594, doi: 10.2118/110628-PA.
8. Combarnous, M. A., and, S. A. Bories, (1975), Hydrothermal convection in saturated porous media, Adv. Hydrosci., 10, 231-307.
9. Cook, P. J., (1999), Sustainability and nonrenewable resources, Environ. Geosci., 6 (4), 185-190.
10. Cooper, C. A., R. J. Glass, and, S. W. Tyler, (1997), Experimental investigation of the stability boundary for double-diffusive finger convection in a Hele-Shaw cell, Water Resour. Res., 33 (4), 517-526.
11. Elder, J. W., (1967), Steady free convection in a porous medium heated from below, J. Fluid Mech., 27 (1), 29-48.
12. Ennis-King, J., and, L. Paterson, (2003), Role of convective mixing in the long-term storage of carbon dioxide in deep saline formations, paper SPE 84344 presented at the SPE annual technical conference and exhibition, Denver, Colo.
13. Ennis-King, J., and, L. Paterson, (2005), Role of convective mixing in the long-term storage of carbon dioxide in deep saline formations, SPE J., 10 (3), 349-356.
14. Ennis-King, J., and, L. Paterson, (2007), Coupling of geochemical reactions and convective mixing in the long-term geological storage of carbon dioxide, Int. J. Greenh. Gas Cont., 1 (1), 86-93.
15. Epherre, J. F., (1977), Criterion for the appearance of natural convection in an anisotropic porous layer, Int. Chem. Eng., 17, 615-616.
16. 2 injection projects, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 50 (25), 5054-5064.
17. 2 injection projects, paper presented at 11th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Bergen, Norway.
18. 2 overlying a brine layer, Adv. Water Resour., 34 (3), 327-339.
19. Freyberg, D. L., (1986), A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer: 2. Spatial moments and the advection and dispersion of nonreactive tracers, Water Resour. Res., 22 (13), 2031-2046, doi: 10.1029/WR022i013p02031.
20. 2 sequestration in depleted oil or gas reservoirs, paper presented at SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
21. 2, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Paper, LBNL-49023, Berkeley, Calif.
22. Glass, R. J., (1993), Modeling gravity-driven fingering in rough-walled fractures using modified percolation theory, paper presented at 4th Annual High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Am. Soc. of Civ. Eng., Las Vegas, Nev.
23. 2 in saline formations, Transp. Porous Media, 82 (1), 31-47.
24. 2-rich gases: Reaction design for added capacity, Energy Convers. Manage., 34 (9), 941-948.
25. 2 storage, J. Can. Petrol. Technol., 44 (10), 43-51.
26. 2 sequestration, J. Fluid Mech., 640, 441.
27. Holzbecher, E. O., (1998), Modeling Density-Driven Flow in Porous Media: Principles, Numerics, Software, Springer, Berlin, Germany.
28. Horton, C. W., and, F. T. Rogers, (1945), Convection currents in a porous medium, J. Appl. Phys., 16 (6), 367-370.
29. Hovorka, S. D., and, P. R. Knox, (2003), Frio brine sequestration pilot in the Texas Gulf Coast, Greenh. Gas Cont. Technol., 1, 583-586.
30. Kneafsey, T. J., and, K. Pruess, (2010), Laboratory flow experiments for visualizing carbon dioxide-induced, density-driven brine convection, Transp. Porous Media, 82 (1), 123-139.
31. Lapwood, E. R., (1948), Convection of a fluid in a porous medium, Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc., 44, 508-521.
32. 2 injected into an aquifer, Greenh. Gas Cont. Technol., 1, 489-494.
33. 2 storage in saline aquifers, J. Phys. Conf. Ser., 78, 012042, doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/78/1/012042.
34. 2 sequestration monitoring and verification technologies applied at Krechba, Algeria, Energy Procedia, 4, 3596-3603.
35. McKibbin, R., and, M J. O'Sullivan, (1980), Onset of convection in a layered porous medium heated from below, J. Fluid Mech., 96 (Part 2), 375-393.
36. McKibbin, R., and, P. A. Tyvand, (1982), Anisotropic modelling of thermal convection in multilayered porous media, J. Fluid Mech., 118 (1), 315-339.
37. Neufeld, J. A., M. A. Hesse, A. Riaz, M. A. Hallworth, H. A. Tchelepi, and, H. E. Huppert, (2010), Convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L22404, doi: 10.1029/2010GL044728.
38. Nield, D. A., and, A. Bejan, (2006), Convection in Porous Media, Springer, USA.
39. Nield, D. A., and, A. V. Kuznetsov, (2007), The effect of combined vertical and horizontal heterogeneity on the onset of convection in a bidisperse porous medium, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 50 (17), 3329-3339.
40. Nield, D. A., and, C. T. Simmons, (2007), A discussion on the effect of heterogeneity on the onset of convection in a porous medium, Transp. Porous Media, 68 (3), 413-421.
41. 2: Modeling Approaches for Large-Scale Simulation, John Wiley, N. Y.
42. 2 plume evolution during injection, Transp. Porous Media, 58 (3), 339-360.
43. 2 from a source on deep-sea floor, Energy Convers. Manage., 33 (5-8), 685-690, doi: 10.1016/0196-8904(92)90072-5.
44. Oostrom, M., J. S. Hayworth, J. H. Dane, and, O. Güven, (1992), Behavior of dense aqueous phase leachate plumes in homogeneous porous media, Water Resour. Res., 28 (8), 2123-2134.
45. 2 storage in saline aquifers, Adv. Water Resour., 33 (4), 443-455.
46. Phillips, S.L., A. Igbene, J.A. Fair, H. Ozbek, and, M. Tavana, (1981), A technical databook for geothermal energy utilization, Rep. LBL-12810, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., Berkeley, Calif.
47. Prasad, A., and, C. T. Simmons, (2003), Unstable density-driven flow in heterogeneous porous media: A stochastic study of the Elder [1967b] "short heater" problem, Water Resour. Res., 39 (1), 1007, doi: 10.1029/2002WR001290.
48. Pruess, K., and, K. Zhang, (2008), Numerical modeling studies of the dissolution-diffusion-convection process during CO2 storage in saline aquifers, Pap. LBNL-1243E, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., Berkeley, Calif.
49. Qi, R., T. C. LaForce, and, M. J. Blunt, (2009), Design of carbon dioxide storage in aquifers, Int. J. Greenh. Gas Cont., 3 (2), 195-205.
50. 2 geological storage, Transp. Porous Media, 95 (1), 25-54.
51. Rayleigh, L., (1916), LIX. On convection currents in a horizontal layer of fluid, when the higher temperature is on the underside, London, Edinburgh, Dublin Philos. Mag. J. Sci., 32 (192), 529-546.
52. Rees, D. A. S., and, A. P. Bassom, (2000), The onset of Darcy-Benard convection in an inclined layer heated from below, Acta Mechan., 144 (1), 103-118.
53. Riaz, A., M. Hesse, H. A. Tchelepi, and, F. M. Orr, (2006), Onset of convection in a gravitationally unstable diffusive boundary layer in porous media, J. Fluid Mech., 548 (1), 87-111.
54. Sakaki, T., A. Limsuwat, and, T. H. Illangasekare, (2007), Water retention behavior of sand as affected by a surrounding medium, in Hydrology Days, Poster No. 22, Colo. State Univ., Fort Collins, 19-22 Mar.
55. Schincariol, R. A., and, F. W. Schwartz, (1990), An experimental investigation of variable density flow and mixing in homogeneous and heterogeneous media, Water Resour. Res., 26 (10), 2317-2329.
56. Schincariol, R. A., F. W. Schwartz, and, C. A. Mendoza, (1994), On the generation of instabilities in variable density flow, Water Resour. Res., 30 (4), 913-927.
57. Schincariol, R. A., F. W. Schwartz, and, C. A. Mendoza, (1997), Instabilities in variable density flows: Stability and sensitivity analyses for homogeneous and heterogeneous media, Water Resour. Res., 33 (1), 31-41.
58. Simmons, C. T., T. R. Fenstemaker, and, J. M. Sharp, (2001), Variable-density groundwater flow and solute transport in heterogeneous porous media: Approaches, resolutions and future challenges, J. Contam. Hydrol., 52 (1), 245-275.
59. Simmons, C.T., et al. (2010), Variable density groundwater flow: From modelling to applications, in Groundwater Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas, Int. Hydrol. Ser., edited by, H. Wheater, S. Mathias, and, X. Li, pp. 87-118, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
60. 2 injection and sequestration in depleted oil and gas fields and deep coal seams: Worldwide potential and costs, Environ. Geosci., 8 (3), 200-209.
61. Szulczewski, M. L., C. W. MacMinn, H. J. Herzog, and, R. Juanes, (2012), Lifetime of carbon capture and storage as a climate-change mitigation technology, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 109 (14), 5185-5189, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1115347109.
62. 2 in saline aquifers: Effects of gravity, viscous, and capillary forces on amount and timing of trapping, Int. J. Greenh. Gas Cont., 1 (4), 481-491.
63. 2 in water at temperatures from 278K to 293K and pressures from 6.44 MPa to 29.49 MPa and densities of the corresponding aqueous solutions, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 29, 1301-1310.
64. 2 storage, Phys. Rev. E, 87 (1), 011003, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.011003.
65. van der Meer, L. G. H., (1992), Investigations regarding the storage of carbon dioxide in aquifers in the Netherlands, Energy Convers. Manage., 33 (5), 611-618.
66. 2 migration in a homogeneous medium using electrical resistivity survey, Geosci. J., 14 (1), 77-85.
67. Weir, G. J., S. P. White, and, W. M. Kissling, (1996), Reservoir storage and containment of greenhouse gases, Transp. Porous Media, 23 (1), 37-60.
68. 2 Monitoring and Storage Project, Energy Procedia, 4, 6069-6076.