Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jeroen Snippe, Niko Kampman, Kevin Bisdom, Tim Tambach, Rafael March, Christine Maier, Tomos Phillips, Nathaniel Forbes Inskip, Florian Doster, Andreas Busch
Summary: In this paper, the DETECT experimental-modelling workflow is applied to the Green River site in Utah to analyze a rare case of natural CO2 reservoir leakage. The methodology accurately predicts leakage locations and rates, providing valuable insights into CO2 leakage mechanisms along faults.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Geological
Ting Bao, Jeff Burghardt, Varun Gupta, Eric Edelman, Brian McPherson, Mark White
Summary: Understanding the time-dependent behavior of rocks is essential for assessing geomechanical risks in geologic carbon storage. This study proposes a new workflow for estimating constitutive modeling parameters for evaluating a 3D viscoelastic model. The experimental results obtained from multi-level loading/unloading triaxial relaxation tests provide insights into the time-dependent responses of rocks.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Geological
Kiseok Kim, Roman Y. Makhnenko
Summary: CO2 injection has a significant influence on the poroviscoelastic response of reservoir rock, particularly in terms of poroelastic and hydraulic properties. The treatment of CO2 increases the compressibility of the rock and induces chemical effects such as dissolution and stress corrosion cracking. Additionally, CO2 treatment facilitates viscous response and leads to increased permeability. Properly characterizing the time-dependent behavior is crucial for geologic storage projects.
ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Raoof Gholami, Arshad Raza, Pal Andersen, Alejandro Escalona, Nestor Cardozo, Dora Marin, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Summary: Many studies have been conducted to evaluate the long-term integrity of seals in CO2 storage sites, focusing on the geochemical reactions, mineral transformations, and surface wettability alterations that may occur. This study specifically examined changes in mineralogy and surface wettability of shales exposed to supercritical CO2 for 6 months, finding that quartz dissolution and kaolinite precipitation can be induced in the presence of CO2. The study suggests that maintaining water wettability of clay surfaces in storage sites is important to prevent CO2 migration. Further research is needed to ensure the integrity of seals in storage sites during and after injection.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Zhipeng Wang, Zhengfu Ning, Wenting Guo, Yuanxin Zhang
Summary: This study develops a dynamic rock fracture monitoring model to describe the induced fracture network and behavior during CO2 injection. The model accurately captures the flow regimes and parameters of the induced fractures and demonstrates practicality in a field case.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ahmed Fatah, Ziad Bennour, Hisham Ben Mahmud, Raoof Gholami, Mofazzal Hossain
Summary: Surface wettability plays a crucial role in controlling CO2 seal capacity and storage potential of shales. Strong correlation between mineral composition and alteration in shale/water wettability was observed, with clay-rich shales showing a possible transition to CO2-wet behavior. Increasing temperature accelerates CO2/shale interactions, while higher cohesive energy density of CO2 promotes a favorable CO2 wetting environment. Shales with high quartz contents exhibit strong water wetting behavior after SCCO2 treatment, enhancing their sealing capacity and potential for CO2 containment in geological storage sites.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Amir Jahanbakhsh, Qi Liu, Mojgan Hadi Mosleh, Harshit Agrawal, Nazia Mubeen Farooqui, Jim Buckman, Montserrat Recasens, Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Anna Korre, Sevket Durucan
Summary: The study aimed to investigate the interactions between CO2-brine and cement-caprock/reservoir rock through a series of experiments simulating deep wellbore environments. The results showed significant changes in permeability and mechanical properties of the composite samples after exposure to CO2-rich brine.
Article
Engineering, Marine
Elzbieta M. Bitner-Gregersen, Takuji Waseda, Josko Parunov, Solomon Yim, Spyros Hirdaris, Ning Ma, C. Guedes Soares
Summary: The uncertainties of wave data and models in the marine industry have become increasingly important for safety at sea. This study highlights the differences and similarities in uncertainty modeling approaches adopted by international organizations, and identifies sources of uncertainties in existing wave data sets and models.
Article
Environmental Sciences
G. R. Hancock
Summary: Mine tailings are waste products that need to be managed due to their high erosion potential and unwanted mineral content. Assessing long-term erosion behavior of tailings dams is important and can be improved using Landscape Evolution Models. Different designs of tailings dams can have varying erosion rates, with potential for long-term encapsulation of tailings if properly maintained.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Takashi Akai, Takashi Kuriyama, Shigeru Kato, Hiroshi Okabe
Summary: The study utilized field data for numerical modeling of long-term CO2 storage and revealed that the dominant storage mechanism during CO2 injection was structural trapping, while residual gas trapping occurred after injection cessation. Significant changes in storage mechanisms occurred within 20 years post-injection, transitioning to solubility trapping after 100 years with decreased residual CO2 trapping. Mass diffusion of CO2 controlled CO2 invasion into the cap rock over a simulation period of 1000 years.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Chongxun Mo, Shutan Zhao, Yuli Ruan, Siyi Liu, Xingbi Lei, Shufeng Lai, Guikai Sun, Zhenxiang Xing
Summary: This paper proposes a nested model for the multi-objective optimal dispatching of reservoirs, which solves the problem of coordinating the contradiction between long-term and short-term benefits in the existing models. The results show that the optimal dispatching plan of the nested model has higher benefits while meeting the flood control objectives. In the case of predicting runoff errors, the output control mode is identified as the optimal control mode.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Keith E. Schilling, Elliot Anderson, Matthew T. Streeter, Chuck Theiling
Summary: This study calculated the mass balance of annual and seasonal NO3-N concentration and load reductions for Lake Red Rock, a flood-control reservoir in Iowa. It was found that the reservoir removed an average of 7,379 Mg of NO3-N per year, accounting for 12.4% of the inputs. The annual NO3-N reduction in flood-control reservoirs in the Midwest is logarithmically related to the average annual water retention time.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Taorui Zeng, Thomas Glade, Yangyi Xie, Kunlong Yin, Dario Peduto
Summary: This study applies deep learning algorithm and landslide evolution model in long-term warning systems, using the Sifangbei landslide in the Three Gorges reservoir area of China as a test site. The results show that the combination of deep learning and evolution methods can predict landslide displacement and evolution stages, which can contribute to the establishment of long-term warning systems.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2023)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Juan Miguel Alvarez-Gomez, Ana Sofia Varela
Summary: This review presents the progress made on long-term CO2 electrolysis and discusses degradation pathways and mitigation strategies.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Haden L. Scott, Dima Bolmatov, Peter T. Podar, Zening Liu, Jacob J. Kinnun, Benjamin Doughty, Ralph Lydic, Robert L. Sacci, C. Patrick Collier, John Katsaras
Summary: This study demonstrates that droplet interface bilayers (DIBs) composed of lipids can exhibit persistent synaptic plasticity, characterized by long-term potentiation (LTP) and capacitive energy storage. The time scales for the physical changes associated with LTP are longer than previous short-term synaptic plasticity studies.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Gernot Rother, Siddharth Gautam, Tingting Liu, David R. Cole, Andreas Busch, Andrew G. Stack
Summary: The adsorption behavior of water vapor in silica nanopores with different pore morphologies and surface hydrophilicities was studied. The study found that the adsorption isotherms are largely independent of pore size at low pressure, and the adsorbed amounts scale with the surface hydroxyl density. Patchy adsorbed layers were found in narrow pores, while a second adsorbed water layer was formed on larger pores and planar quartz surfaces. Molecular dynamics modeling revealed two preferential orientations for water molecules adsorbing to surface hydroxyl groups.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Amirsaman Rezaeyan, Vitaliy Pipich, Jingsheng Ma, Leon Leu, Timo Seemann, Gernot Rother, Lester C. Barnsley, Andreas Busch
Summary: In this study, small-angle neutron scattering experiments were conducted on 71 samples from 13 different sets of mudrocks across the globe to capture the pore structure and develop fractal models to predict transport properties based on pore size distributions. The results show that transport phenomena in mudrocks are pore size-dependent, with different flow regimes developing in micropores, meso- and macropores based on hydrostatic pore pressures. The new model of pore size-dependent transport and integrated transport properties using fractal models provides a systematic approach to better understand fluid flow and transport phenomena in mudrocks on the reservoir and basin scale.
TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Amanzhol Kubeyev, Nathaniel Forbes Inskip, Tomos Phillips, Yihuai Zhang, Christine Maier, Kevin Bisdom, Andreas Busch, Florian Doster
Summary: This paper presents a computational model based on digital image processing techniques for the stress-permeability relationship of fractures. Using a first-principle contact mechanics approach, numerical simulations are conducted to investigate the effects of fracture surface roughness and shifting on permeability evolution under applied stress. The results are compared with laboratory experiments, and empirical stress-permeability relationships are provided for fractured geological formations.
TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Fengyang Xiong, Gernot Rother, Mileva Radonjic
Summary: This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the petrological factors that impact the adsorption phase density (APD) of subsurface shale gas. It reveals that organic matter plays a significant role in APD, while clay minerals and quartz and feldspar have a negative impact. The findings of this study have implications for the estimation of supercritical adsorption and shale gas in place (GIP) under reservoir conditions.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Alexander B. Brady, Juliane Weber, Ke Yuan, Lawrence F. Allard, Omar Avina, Ramon Ogaz, Yao-Jen Chang, Nikhil Rampal, Vitalii Starchenko, Gernot Rother, Lawrence M. Anovitz, Jose L. Banuelos, Hsiu-Wen Wang, Andrew G. Stack
Summary: This study investigates the nucleation and growth of barium sulfate in nanoporous silica using various characterization techniques. The results indicate a possible nonclassical nucleation pathway for barium sulfate under confinement and suggest that the formation of crystals inside the nanopores may limit solute transport.
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Zaid Jangda, Hannah Menke, Andreas Busch, Sebastian Geiger, Tom Bultreys, Helen Lewis, Kamaljit Singh
Summary: This study investigates the pore-scale displacement processes in H-2-brine systems in a porous sandstone. The findings suggest that underground H-2 storage may be a suitable strategy for energy storage, but further research is needed to fully understand the pore-scale interactions.
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jose Leobardo Banuelos, Eric Borguet, Gordon E. Brown, Randall T. Cygan, James J. DeYoreo, Patricia M. Dove, Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Franz M. Geiger, Julianne M. Gibbs, Vicki H. Grassian, Anastasia G. Ilgen, Young-Shin Jun, Nadine Kabengi, Lynn Katz, James D. Kubicki, Johannes Luetzenkirchen, Christine V. Putnis, Richard C. Remsing, Kevin M. Rosso, Gernot Rother, Marialore Sulpizi, Mario Villalobos, Huichun Zhang
Summary: Interfacial reactions play important roles in elemental cycling on Earth and various human activities. Advances in techniques, such as ultrafast laser and X-ray sources, nanofabrication approaches, and computational chemistry, have enabled a more detailed understanding of mineral aqueous interfaces at atomic and nanometer scales. This critical review explores the progress made in the past 20 years and identifies challenges and future opportunities in understanding and predicting dynamic transient and reactive structures across greater spatial and temporal ranges, as well as systems of greater complexity.
Article
Geology
Andreas Busch, Suzanne Hangx, Stephanie Vialle, Roberto Emanuele Rizzo, Niko Kampman
Summary: The long-term interaction of CO2-charged fluids with low permeability cap rocks is important for seal integrity assessment. A study on a natural CO2 analogue near Green River, Utah, USA, showed that over time and small distances, mechanical weakening of the cap rock due to fluid-rock interactions can occur, leading to loss of cohesion, compaction, and formation of fractures. However, considering the thickness of cap rocks above CO2 storage reservoirs, the risk of losing containment integrity over hundreds to thousands of years is not significant.
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Syed Z. Islam, Md Arifuzzaman, Gernot Rother, Vera Bocharova, Robert L. Sacci, Jacek Jakowski, Jingsong Huang, Ilia Nicolaevich Ivanov, Ramesh R. Bhave, Tomonori Saito, David S. Sholl
Summary: This study presents a scalable and energy-efficient hollow fiber membrane contactor (HFMC)-based process for CO2 capture using a green solvent. The use of deep eutectic solvent (DES) in HFMC allows for effective interaction between DES and CO2, overcoming drawbacks of direct absorption in DES. The research evaluates the performance of commercial low-cost polymer hollow fiber membranes in CO2 capture with DES and provides insights into the CO2 separation mechanism.
INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Amirsaman Rezaeyan, Niko Kampman, Vitaliy Pipich, Lester C. Barnsley, Gernot Rother, Clayton Magill, Jingsheng Ma, Andreas Busch
Summary: The pore structure of mudrocks plays a vital role in evaluating flow behavior, and the relationship between porosity evolution and flow and transport in mudrocks remains insufficiently understood. Organic-rich mudrocks mainly contain large pores, which favor production from unconventional reservoirs. The research findings are of great significance for understanding fluid imbibition and flow properties in mudrocks.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Paula Sofia Gonzalez Samano, Roger Daniel Beckie, Andreas Busch, Aaron Graham Cahill
Summary: Oil and gas wells can experience integrity failure, leading to the release of fugitive gas into the subsurface and atmosphere. This study focuses on understanding the factors influencing fugitive gas migration in the shallow sedimentary rocks of British Columbia, Canada, and developing methods to detect and monitor these gases. Laboratory techniques and analytical calculations were used to characterize flow properties of rock cores and assess the relationship between petrophysical characteristics and flow propensity. Results indicate that capillary pressure and heterogeneity play significant roles in controlling gas migration in the region.
MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Instruments & Instrumentation
Nick Harpers, Ming Wen, Paul Miller, Suzanne Hangx, Andreas Busch
Summary: This study introduces the Harpers THMC Flow Bench, a multi-cell, flow-through reactor system for the scientific analysis of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in rocks. The setup allows long-term testing on rock samples and includes features such as high pressure and axial load capacity, temperature control, and fluid mixing capabilities. Various tests, including permeability measurements, chemical analysis, and mechanical testing, can be performed using the setup.
REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
(2023)
Article
Geology
Andreas Busch, Suzanne Hangx, Stephanie Vialle, Roberto Emanuele Rizzo, Niko Kampman
Summary: This study investigates the long-term geomechanical changes in a reservoir seal due to fluid-rock interactions with CO2-charged fluids. The study finds that low permeability cap rock undergoes mechanical weakening over time, resulting in the formation of bedding-parallel fractures. However, these mechanical weakening processes only occur over long time scales and small distances, suggesting that the threat to containment integrity is not considerable.
