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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 46, 期 7, 页码 4228-4235出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es204096w
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- Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
Wettability of reservoir minerals and rocks is a critical factor controlling CO2 mobility, residual trapping, and safe-storage in geologic carbon sequestration, and currently is the factor imparting the greatest uncertainty in predicting capillary behavior in porous media. Very little information on wettability in supercritical CO2 (scCO(2))-mineral-brine systems is available. We studied pore-scale wettability and wettability alteration in scCO(2)-silica-brine systems using engineered micromodels (transparent pore networks), at 8.5 MPa and 45 degrees C, over a wide range of NaCl concentrations up to 5.0 M. Dewetting of silica surfaces upon reactions with scCO(2) was observed through water film thinning, water droplet formation, and contact angle increases within single pores. The brine contact angles increased from initial values near 0 degrees up to 80 degrees with larger increases under higher ionic strength conditions. Given the abundance of silica surfaces in reservoirs and caprocks, these results indicate that CO2 induced dewetting may have important consequences on CO2 sequestration including reducing capillary entry pressure, and altering quantities of CO2 residual trapping, relative permeability, and caprock integrity.
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