H43M:
Advances in Numerical Modeling for Improved CO2 Storage Security I
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Session ID#: 34316
Session Description:
Successful geological CO
2 storage is crucial for climate change mitigation. To reduce atmospheric CO
2 emissions, CO
2must be stored securely and permanently once injected underground.
Temperature evolution, salt precipitation and geomechanics could all affect site security, pressure and plume evolution, and trapping efficiency. Coupled modelling of CO2 migration with thermal, geochemical and geomechanical processes is necessary to elucidate these impacts. However this is not straightforward, particularly for geologically realistic, heterogeneous domains including fractures and faults. To complicate matters further, screening and characterisation of potential sites require efficient simulation methods to cope with large parameter uncertainties.
This session focuses on advances in numerical modelling which help assess and improve CO2 storage security. This includes reduced complexity modelling, coupled modelling of CO2 migration with thermal, geochemical and geomechanical processes and improved models for investigating processes which can be manipulated to enhance storage security e.g. geochemical or biological processes (bio-clogging).
Primary Convener: Francesca Elizabeth Watson, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom
Conveners: Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom, Sarah E Gasda, Uni Research, CIPR, Bergen, Norway and Karl Bandilla, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Chairs: Florian Doster1, Francesca Elizabeth Watson1 and Karl Bandilla2, (1)Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom(2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison: Sarah E Gasda, Uni Research, CIPR, Bergen, Norway
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Rajesh Pawar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Donald J DePaolo, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Shuo Zhang, Aramco Research Centers, Houston, United States
Samuel James Jackson, Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Catriona Reynolds, Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Samuel C Krevor, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Jonny Rutqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, Antonio Pio Rinaldi, ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland, Frederic Cappa, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, IRD, Géoazur, Sophia-Antipolis, France, Pierre Jeanne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Alberto Mazzoldi, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, United States, Luca Urpi, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, Francesco Parisio, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA-CSIC-UIB), Global Change Research Group, Esporles, Spain and Yves Guglielmi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States
Jens T Birkholzer1, Ana Gonzalez-Nicolas1 and Abdullah Cihan2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Yihua Teng, Peking University, Beijing, China and Dongxiao Zhang, Peking University, Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, Beijing, China
