T13E:
Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes Related to Geoenergy and Geoengineering Applications I


Session ID#: 7852

Session Description:
Geo-energy and geo-engineering applications involve interaction of complex thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in geological media. The interest in these coupled processes is increasing rapidly. Applications include geological disposal of energy wastes including geologic carbon storage and nuclear waste storage, hydraulic fracturing and its subsequent wastewater disposal and induced seismicity, natural and enhanced geothermal energy, seasonal gas storage, discovery and recovery of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, mining and resources engineering. The integration of experimental, analytical and numerical approaches is necessary for interpretation of field data and to understand the underlying processes that take place in heterogeneous geological systems. We solicit contributions from detailed conceptual, analytical, experimental, geological, seismological and numerical studies that focus on these applications.
Primary Convener:  Paul A Hsieh, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Conveners:  Francesco Parisio, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Jonny Rutqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States
Chairs:  Paul A Hsieh, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Jonny Rutqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Francesco Parisio, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison:  Francesco Parisio, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
7299 General or miscellaneous [SEISMOLOGY]
8168 Stresses: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8424 Hydrothermal systems [VOLCANOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Seismicity and coupled deformation modeling at the Coso Geothermal Field (Invited) (60513)
Joern O Kaven, USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Stephen H Hickman, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Nicholas Christopher Davatzes, Temple Univ-Geol, Earth & Env, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Time-Dependent Deformation at Brady Hot Springs Geothermal Field (Nevada) Measured With Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and Modeled with Multiple Working Hypotheses of Coupled Behavior (69507)
Kurt L Feigl1, Syed Hammad Ali2, John Akerley3, Elena C. Reinisch2, Michael A Cardiff4, Nicholas Christopher Davatzes5, William Foxall6, Dante Fratta7, Corne Kreemer8, Robert J Mellors9, Janice Lopeman3, Paul Spielman3 and Herbert F Wang7, (1)University of Wisconsin, Geoscience, Madison, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Ormat Technologies Inc., Reno, NV, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (5)Temple Univ-Geol, Earth & Env, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (8)University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States, (9)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Pore pressure evolution and induced seismicity within the Permian Basin, Southeast New Mexico USA (75422)
Mark Austin Person1, Yipeng Zhang2, Peter Mozley3, Ron Broadhead4, Sue Bilek2 and Stanislav Edel5, (1)New Mexico Tech, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Socorro, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Tech, Earth and Enviromental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)NM Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States
Critically Stressed Fractures as Conduits: Mechanically-Chemically-Mediated Anisotropy of the Effective Permeability of Fractured Rock (64950)
Philipp S. Lang1, Morteza Nejati2, Adriana Paluszny1 and Robert W. Zimmerman2, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Coupled THMC modelling of single fractures in novaculite and granite for DECOVALEX-2015 (Invited) (60545)
Alexander Bond1, Neil Chittenden2, Randall W Fedors3, Philipp S. Lang4, Christopher McDermott5, Ivars E. Neretnieks6, Pengzhi Pan7, Jan Šembara8, Ivan Brusky8, Norihiro Watanabe9, Renchao Lu9 and Hideaki Yasuhara10, (1)Quintessa Ltd, Henley ON Thames, United Kingdom, (2)Quintessa Ltd, Henley On Thames, United Kingdom, (3)U.S. NRC, Middletown, MD, United States, (4)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (8)Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic, (9)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (10)Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
Coupled THMC models for bentonite in clay repository for nuclear waste (Invited) (68157)
Liange Zheng1, Jonny Rutqvist1, Jens T Birkholzer1, Yanmei Li2 and Horacio Hernández Anguiano3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Universidad de Guanajuato, Mines, Metallurgy and Geology Engineering, Guanajuato, Gto, Mexico, (3)University of Guanajuato, Department of Geomatics and Hydraulics, Guanajuato, Mexico
The Effect of Pressure Dissolution and Precipitation on Fracture Permeability and Normal Stiffness (Invited) (65564)
Robert W. Zimmerman1, Philipp S. Lang2 and Adriana Paluszny2, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Long-Term Modeling of Coupled Processes in a Generic Salt Repository for Heat-Generating Nuclear Waste: Analysis of the Impacts of Halite Solubility Constraints (75577)
Laura Blanco Martin1, Jonny Rutqvist2, Alfredo Battistelli3 and Jens T Birkholzer2, (1)MINES ParisTech, Department of Geosciences, Fontainebleau, France, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Saipem SpA, AMBEN, Fano, Italy

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