MR51D:
Salt as Geologic Storage Media: Applications in Subsurface Engineering II

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Session ID#: 16442

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
Convener:  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:

Permanent Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Salt (Invited) (135915)
Francis Dale Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Constitutive Modeling of the Thermomechanical Behavior of Rock Salt (Invited) (146909)
Andreas Hampel, Self Employed, Mainz, Germany
Capillary controls on brine percolation in rock salt (158869)
Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Masa Prodanovic, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States and Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Tightness of Salt Rocks and Fluid Percolation (134982)
Christoph Lüdeling, Wolfgang Minkley and Dieter Brückner, IfG Institute for Rock Mechanics, Leipzig, Germany
Role of Brine Chemistry and Sorption in Potential Long-Term Storage of Radioactive Waste in Geologic Salt Formations: Experimental Evaluation of Sorption Parameters (149390)
Timothy M Dittrich1, Hilary Emerson2, Dugas P Michael1 and Donald T Reed3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory - LANL, Actinide Chemistry and Repository Science Program, Carlsbad, NM, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM, United States
Crater Formation Above Salt Caverns: Piston vs Hour-glass (Invited) (160705)
Pierre Berest, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France

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