Geochemistry of geologic carbon sequestration: an overview

DJ DePaolo, DR Cole - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Over the past two decades there has been heightened concern about, and an improving
scientific description of, the impacts of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's …

Determining air-water interfacial areas for the retention and transport of PFAS and other interfacially active solutes in unsaturated porous media

ML Brusseau - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The objective of this work was to determine the methods that produce the most
representative measurements and estimations of air-water interfacial area specifically for the …

Capillary Pressure and Mineral Wettability Influences on Reservoir CO2 Capacity

TK Tokunaga, J Wan - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The movement of injected CO2 through permeable pore networks determines its distribution
and stability within reservoirs used for carbon sequestration (Fig. 1), and this process is …

The Nanoscale Basis of CO2 Trapping for Geologic Storage

IC Bourg, LE Beckingham… - Environmental science & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is likely to be a critical technology to achieve large
reductions in global carbon emissions over the next century. Research on the subsurface …

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Mineral Surface Wettability by Water Versus CO2: Thin Films, Contact Angles, and Capillary Pressure in a Silica Nanopore

EWH Sun, IC Bourg - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
The wettability of mineral surfaces is an important property influencing multiphase flow in
soils and sedimentary rocks. In particular, for CO2 abatement technologies that rely on …

Experimental investigation on the movability of water in shale nanopores: A case study of Carboniferous shale from the Qaidam Basin, China

S Yang, Q Yu - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The movability of water in shale nanopores intensely affects the transport and storage of
other fluids and plays an important role in the geological water cycle. To investigate the …

Capillary pressure and saturation relations for supercritical CO2 and brine in sand: High‐pressure Pc(Sw) controller/meter measurements and capillary scaling …

TK Tokunaga, J Wan, JW Jung, TW Kim… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In geologic carbon sequestration, reliable predictions of CO2 storage require understanding
the capillary behavior of supercritical (sc) CO2. Given the limited availability of …

Zeta potential of CO2-rich aqueous solutions in contact with intact sandstone sample at temperatures of 23 C and 40 C and pressures up to 10.0 MPa

M Hidayat, M Sarmadivaleh, J Derksen… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the broad range of interest and applications, controls on the electric surface charge
and the zeta potential of silica in contact with aqueous solutions saturated with dissolved CO …

Pore‐scale modeling of fluid‐fluid interfacial area in variably saturated porous media containing microscale surface roughness

H Jiang, B Guo, ML Brusseau - Water resources research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A pore‐scale model is developed to simulate fluid‐fluid interfacial area in variably saturated
porous media, with a specific focus on incorporating the effects of solid‐surface roughness …

Capillary trapping quantification in sandstones using NMR relaxometry

PRJ Connolly, SJ Vogt, S Iglauer… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Capillary trapping of a non‐wetting phase arising from two‐phase immiscible flow in
sedimentary rocks is critical to many geoscience scenarios, including oil and gas recovery …