Pore-scale study of calcite dissolution during CO2-saturated brine injection for sequestration in carbonate aquifers

Q Xie, W Wang, Y Su, H Wang, Z Zhang… - Gas Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The calcite reaction with carbonate acid is a prerequisite to release cations providing the
reactant for mineral trapping, however, the complicated multiple physicochemical processes …

Alterations of Fractures in Carbonate Rocks by CO2-Acidified Brines

H Deng, JP Fitts, D Crandall, D McIntyre… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Fractures in geological formations may enable migration of environmentally relevant fluids,
as in leakage of CO2 through caprocks in geologic carbon sequestration. We investigated …

Generalized lattice Boltzmann model for flow through tight porous media with Klinkenberg's effect

L Chen, W Fang, Q Kang, J De'Haven Hyman… - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Gas slippage occurs when the mean free path of the gas molecules is in the order of the
characteristic pore size of a porous medium. This phenomenon leads to Klinkenberg's effect …

Impact of mineralogical heterogeneity on reactive transport modelling

M Liu, M Shabaninejad, P Mostaghimi - Computers & Geosciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Impact of mineralogical heterogeneity of rocks in reactive modelling is investigated by
applying a pore scale model based on the Lattice Boltzmann and Finite Volume Methods …

Pore‐scale investigation of methane hydrate dissociation using the lattice Boltzmann method

L Zhang, C Zhang, K Zhang, L Zhang… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fundamental understanding of pore‐scale methane hydrate dissociation in porous media is
important to evaluate submarine slope stability and potential utilization of methane …

Investigation of methane adsorption and its effect on gas transport in shale matrix through microscale and mesoscale simulations

ZZ Li, T Min, Q Kang, YL He, WQ Tao - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016 - Elsevier
Methane adsorption and its effect on fluid flow in shale matrix are investigated through multi-
scale simulation scheme by using molecular dynamics (MD) and lattice Boltzmann (LB) …

Permeability prediction of shale matrix reconstructed using the elementary building block model

L Chen, Q Kang, Z Dai, HS Viswanathan, W Tao - Fuel, 2015 - Elsevier
Representative elementary volume (REV)-scale structure of shale matrix is reconstructed
based on elementary building block (EBB) model using a stochastic reconstruction method …

Modeling reactive transport processes in fractures

H Deng, N Spycher - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fractures are ubiquitous and important features in the Earth subsurface (Berkowitz 2002;
Pyrak-Nolte et al. 2015). They are created as a result of rock failure when the critical stress …

Lattice Boltzmann-based approaches for pore-scale reactive transport

H Yoon, Q Kang, AJ Valocchi - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Important geoscience and environmental applications such as geologic carbon storage,
environmental remediation, and unconventional oil and gas recovery are best understood in …

Pore-scale modeling of thermal-hydro-mechanical-chemical coupled rock dissolution and fracturing process

K Jiao, D Han, B Wang, Y Chen, B Bai, L Gong… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Acid fracturing can effectively improve the connectivity inside underground reservoirs, which
is of significance for geothermal exploitation and geological carbon sequestration. It involves …