MR41C:
Salt as Geologic Storage Media: Applications in Subsurface Engineering I Posters

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Session ID#: 13281

Session Description:
The unique properties of salt (halite) – including low permeability, viscoplastic (creep) mechanical behavior, and fracture healing – make it highly desirable for the storage of oil, natural gas, compressed gases, and radioactive waste.  These materials are stored in solution-mined caverns in salt domes, or in mined repositories in bedded and domal salts.  Extensive research has been performed on crystalline structure relating to creep and permeability, long-term effects of volume closure on surface structures and facilities, and long-term capability of salt repositories to isolate stored material from the surrounding environment.  This session invites presentations that focus on experimental, computational, or field studies of salt in a variety of applications, including, but not limited to: engineered barriers; geologic storage of hydrocarbons, gases, and radwaste; structural integrity of caverns, repositories, and wellbore casings; and physical properties of salt such as shear strength, creep at low deviatoric stress, and salt damage characterization/propagation.
Primary Convener:  Steven R. Sobolik, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Steven R. Sobolik, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Edward N Matteo, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Chairs:  Steven R. Sobolik, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Edward N Matteo, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Edward N Matteo, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0915 Downhole methods [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
3902 Creep and deformation [MINERAL PHYSICS]
5120 Plasticity, diffusion, and creep [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
8168 Stresses: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Hexahedral Finite Element Mesh Capturing Realistic Geometries of Bayou Choctaw Strategic Petroleum Reserve (125144)
Byoung-Yoon Park1, Barry L. Roberts2 and Steven R. Sobolik2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Geotechnology & Engineering Department, Albuquerque, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Mechanical Behavior and Microcrack Development in Nominally Dry Synthetic Salt-rock During Cyclic Loading (196344)
Jihui Ding1, Frederick M Chester2, Judith Savaso Chester1, Cheng Zhu3, Xianda Shen3 and Chloe F Arson3, (1)Texas A&M University, Center for Tectonophysics and the Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, United States, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, TX, United States
Numerical Modeling of ROM Panel Closures at WIPP (134390)
Courtney G Herrick, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Coupled Multi-physical Simulations for the Assessment of Nuclear Waste Repository Concepts: Modeling, Software Development and Simulation (132985)
Thomas Nagel1, Jobst Massmann2, Lars Bilke3, Norbert Böttcher4, Stefan Heusermann2, Thomas Fischer4, Vinay Kumar2, Annika Schäfers2, Hua Shao2, Peter Vogel2, Wenqing Wang4, Norihiro Watanabe4, Gesa Ziefle2 and Olaf Kolditz5, (1)Geotechnical Institute, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany, (2)BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany, (4)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (5)Helmholtz Center UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Performance Assessment of a Generic Repository in Bedded Salt for DOE-Managed Nuclear Waste (162375)
Emily R Stein1, S David Sevougian2, Glenn E Hammond1, Jennifer Mary Frederick1 and Paul E Mariner1, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Numerical Modeling of Thermal-Hydrology in the Near Field of a Generic High-Level Waste Repository (163760)
Edward N Matteo, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Teklu Hadgu, Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Heeho Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Integration of PFLOTRAN into Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Performance Assessment and Human Borehole Intrusion Cases (165193)
Heeho Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States

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