Status of CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers with emphasis on modeling approaches and practical simulations

MA Celia, S Bachu, JM Nordbotten… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the only viable technology to mitigate carbon
emissions while allowing continued large‐scale use of fossil fuels. The storage part of CCS …

Vigorous convection in porous media

DR Hewitt - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The problem of convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium is reviewed with a focus on
'vigorous' convective flow, when the driving buoyancy forces are large relative to any …

Convective dissolution of CO2 in saline aquifers: Progress in modeling and experiments

H Emami-Meybodi, H Hassanzadeh, CP Green… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The dissolution of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in deep saline aquifer water is recognized as one
of the fundamental mechanisms in the subsurface for storing significant quantities of CO 2 …

The Role of Mixed Convection and Hydrodynamic Dispersion During CO2 Dissolution in Saline Aquifers: A Numerical Study

A Tsinober, R Rosenzweig, H Class… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolution trapping plays a significant role in CO2 geological storage. When CO2 dissolves
in aquifer brines, the aqueous solution is heavier than the underlying resident brine. This …

Convective mixing in porous media: a review of Darcy, pore-scale and Hele-Shaw studies

M De Paoli - The European Physical Journal E, 2023 - Springer
Convection-driven porous media flows are common in industrial processes and in nature.
The multiscale and multiphase character of these systems and the inherent nonlinear flow …

Solutal convection in porous media: Comparison between boundary conditions of constant concentration and constant flux

MA Amooie, MR Soltanian, J Moortgat - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
We numerically examine solutal convection in porous media, driven by the dissolution of
carbon dioxide (CO 2) into water—an effective mechanism for CO 2 storage in saline …

Dissolution regimes of a horizontal channel in a gravity field

W Guo, R Hu, CX Zhou, Z Yang, YF Chen - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Buoyancy-driven dissolution of the solid phase is common in natural processes and
subsurface applications, such as geomorphology, solution mining, and geological CO 2 …

Dissolution patterns and mixing dynamics in unstable reactive flow

JJ Hidalgo, M Dentz, Y Cabeza… - Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We study the fundamental problem of mixing and chemical reactions under a Rayleigh‐
Taylor‐type hydrodynamic instability in a miscible two‐fluid system. The dense fluid mixture …

Interactions between gravity currents and convective dissolution

MT Elenius, DV Voskov, HA Tchelepi - Advances in Water Resources, 2015 - Elsevier
Geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a promising technology for reducing
atmospheric emissions. The large discrepancy in the time-and length-scales between up-dip …

Effect of permeability heterogeneity on the dissolution process during carbon dioxide sequestration in saline aquifers: two-and three-dimensional structures

R Mahyapour, S Mahmoodpour, M Singh… - … and Geophysics for Geo …, 2022 - Springer
The convection–diffusion process of carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolution in a saline reservoir is
investigated to shed light on the effects of the permeability heterogeneity. Using sequential …