Experimental Study On Fluid Rock Interaction And Dissolution Precipitation Processes At Low Temperatures With Implications For Industrial Geothermal Exploration
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Experimental Study On Fluid Rock Interaction And Dissolution Precipitation Processes At Low Temperatures With Implications For Industrial Geothermal Exploration
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Author : Tim Gerrit Küsters
language : en
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Release Date : 2018
Experimental Study On Fluid Rock Interaction And Dissolution Precipitation Processes At Low Temperatures With Implications For Industrial Geothermal Exploration written by Tim Gerrit Küsters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Numerical And Experimental Characterization Of Dissolution And Precipitation Processes In Deep Geothermal Reservoirs
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language : en
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Release Date : 2018
Numerical And Experimental Characterization Of Dissolution And Precipitation Processes In Deep Geothermal Reservoirs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Geothermal Energy Update
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language : en
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Release Date : 1978
Geothermal Energy Update written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Geothermal engineering categories.
Experimental Study Of Rock Fluid Interaction Using Automated Multichannel System Operated Under Conditions Of Co2 Based Geothermal Systems
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language : en
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Release Date : 2013
Experimental Study Of Rock Fluid Interaction Using Automated Multichannel System Operated Under Conditions Of Co2 Based Geothermal Systems written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
On The Dissolution Precipitation And Transport Processes In Sulphatic Swelling Rocks
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Author : Konstantinos Serafeimidis
language : en
Publisher: vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Release Date : 2014-10-22
On The Dissolution Precipitation And Transport Processes In Sulphatic Swelling Rocks written by Konstantinos Serafeimidis and has been published by vdf Hochschulverlag AG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Sulphatic claystones are among the most problematic rocks in tunnelling due to their distinctive swelling properties. They are known to have caused severe damage, for example, to numerous tunnels excavated in the Gypsum Keuper formation. The repairs were extremely costly and time-consuming, and often provided only a temporary solution. The setbacks experienced in tunnelling through Gypsum Keuper may be attributed, among other things, to our limited knowledge of the macroscopic principles governing the swelling process and the underlying microscopic mechanisms. The issues in question have formed the focal point of long-standing research in the Chair of Underground Construction at ETH Zurich. A series of theoretical and experimental research projects are being conducted to investigate the interactions between chemical reactions, transport processes and the observed macroscopic behaviour. The objective of the investigations is to improve our understanding of swelling processes in order to yield a scientifically established basis for design. This work has achieved important progress towards this objective. It has systematically and comprehensively analysed the thermodynamics and the kinetics of the chemical reactions involved in the swelling process, as well as their interplay with advective and diffusive ion transport. The topic is of great value in terms of further investigation in this area.
Geological Carbon Storage
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Author : Stéphanie Vialle
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-11-15
Geological Carbon Storage written by Stéphanie Vialle and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with Science categories.
Geological Carbon Storage Subsurface Seals and Caprock Integrity Seals and caprocks are an essential component of subsurface hydrogeological systems, guiding the movement and entrapment of hydrocarbon and other fluids. Geological Carbon Storage: Subsurface Seals and Caprock Integrity offers a survey of the wealth of recent scientific work on caprock integrity with a focus on the geological controls of permanent and safe carbon dioxide storage, and the commercial deployment of geological carbon storage. Volume highlights include: Low-permeability rock characterization from the pore scale to the core scale Flow and transport properties of low-permeability rocks Fundamentals of fracture generation, self-healing, and permeability Coupled geochemical, transport and geomechanical processes in caprock Analysis of caprock behavior from natural analogues Geochemical and geophysical monitoring techniques of caprock failure and integrity Potential environmental impacts of carbon dioxide migration on groundwater resources Carbon dioxide leakage mitigation and remediation techniques Geological Carbon Storage: Subsurface Seals and Caprock Integrity is an invaluable resource for geoscientists from academic and research institutions with interests in energy and environment-related problems, as well as professionals in the field. Book Review: William R. Green, Patrick Taylor, Sven Treitel, and Moritz Fliedner, (2020), "Reviews," The Leading Edge 39: 214–216 Geological Carbon Storage: Subsurface Seals and Caprock Integrity, edited by Stéphanie Vialle, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, and J. William Carey, ISBN 978-1-119-11864-0, 2018, American Geophysical Union and Wiley, 364 p., US$199.95 (print), US$159.99 (eBook). This volume is a part of the AGU/Wiley Geophysical Monograph Series. The editors assembled an international team of earth scientists who present a comprehensive approach to the major problem of placing unwanted and/or hazardous fluids beneath a cap rock seal to be impounded. The compact and informative preface depicts the nature of cap rocks and the problems that may occur over time or with a change in the formation of the cap rock. I have excerpted a quote from the preface that describes the scope of the volume in a concise and thorough matter. “Caprocks can be defined as a rock that prevents the flow of a given fluid at certain temperature, pressure, and chemical conditions. ... A fundamental understanding of these units and of their evolution over time in the context of subsurface carbon storage is still lacking.” This volume describes the scope of current research being conducted on a global scale, with 31 of the 83 authors working outside of the United States. The studies vary but can be generalized as monitoring techniques for cap rock integrity and the consequence of the loss of that integrity. The preface ends by calling out important problems that remain to be answered. These include imaging cap rocks in situ, detecting subsurface leaks before they reach the surface, and remotely examining the state of the cap rock to avert any problems. Chapter 3 describes how newer methods are used to classify shale. These advanced techniques reveal previously unknown microscopic properties that complicate classification. This is an example of the more we know, the more we don't know. A sedimentologic study of the formation of shale (by far the major sedimentary rock and an important rock type) is described in Chapter 4. The authors use diagrammatic examples to illustrate how cap rocks may fail through imperfect seal between the drill and wall rock, capillary action, or a structural defect (fault). Also, the shale pore structures vary in size, and this affects the reservoir. There are descriptions of the pore structure in the Eagle Ford and Marcellus shales and several others. Pore structures are analyzed using state-of-the-art ultra-small-angle X-ray or neutron scattering. They determine that the overall porosity decreases nonlinearly with time. There are examples of cap rock performance under an array of diagnostic laboratory analyses and geologic field examples (e.g., Marcellus Formation). The importance of the sequestration of CO2 and other contaminants highlights the significance of this volume. The previous and following chapters illuminate the life history of the lithologic reservoir seal. I would like to call out Chapter 14 in which the authors illustrate the various mechanisms by which a seal can fail and Chapter 15 in which the authors address the general problems of the effect of CO2 sequestration on the environment. They establish a field test, consisting of a trailer and large tank of fluids with numerous monitoring instruments to replicate the effect of a controlled release of CO2-saturated water into a shallow aquifer. This chapter's extensive list of references will be of interest to petroleum engineers, rock mechanics, and environmentalists. The authors of this volume present a broad view of the underground storage of CO2. Nuclear waste and hydrocarbons are also considered for underground storage. There are laboratory, field, and in situ studies covering nearly all aspects of this problem. I cannot remember a study in which so many different earth science resources were applied to a single problem. The span of subjects varies from traditional geochemical analysis with the standard and latest methods in infrared and X-ray techniques, chemical and petroleum engineering, sedimentary mineralogy, hydrology, and geomechanical studies. This volume is essential to anyone working in this field as it brings several disciplines together to produce a comprehensive study of carbon sequestration. While the volume is well illustrated, there is a lack of color figures. Each chapter should have at least two color figures, or there should be several pages of color figures bound in the center of the volume. Many of the figures would be more meaningful if they had been rendered in color. Also, the acronyms are defined in the individual chapters, but it would be helpful to have a list of acronyms after the extensive index. I recommend this monograph to all earth scientists but especially petroleum engineers, structural geologists, mineralogists, and environmental scientists. Since these chapters cover a broad range of studies, it would be best if the reader has a broad background. — Patrick Taylor Davidsonville, Maryland
Rock Fluid Interaction And The Incorporation Of Cations Into Calcite During Recrystallization In Multiple Hydrothermal Systems
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Author : Anh Nguyen
language : en
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Release Date : 2022
Rock Fluid Interaction And The Incorporation Of Cations Into Calcite During Recrystallization In Multiple Hydrothermal Systems written by Anh Nguyen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Fluid-rock interaction causes an exchange of isotopes or elements through various reactions. The rate of these reactions strongly depends on temperature. The interaction involves dissolution precipitation, chemical exchange reactions, redox reactions, diffusion, and their combinations. The goal of studying fluid-rock interaction is to understand the change in mineral chemistry of the rock materials when in contact with an aqueous solution. These processes occur in all regions of the Earth where aqueous solutions are found. This work is comprised of three independent studies which provide an understanding about crystallization processes under multiple hydrothermal conditions with geological and environmental applications. In the chapter 1, subsurface rock and CO2-saturated brine reactions were evaluated under laboratory hydrothermal conditions when injected carbon dioxide is in contact with sedimentary strata at a planned sequestration sites at Kemper County Mississippi. Five rock samples were taken from different depths using core cuttings for experimentation. The results reveal no reaction of clay particles and CO2-rich fluid; in contrast, in samples from the depth of the unconformity, significant formation of secondary minerals occurred by reaction with the rock sample at the unconformity. The second study focuses on the incorporation of uranium (VI) into the crystal lattice of calcite at hydrothermal conditions. This study was designed to understand uranium (VI) behaviors in a calcite-fluid system at elevated temperatures due to decay of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The results showed uranyl hydroxide formation was preferred at hydrothermal conditions, 120 – 350 oC. The incorporation of U6+ in calcite lattices was evaluated, though the data showed a limited amount of U6+ entrapment. The third study focuses on quantification of the retention of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, and d18O during the aragonite-calcite transformation process as well as evaluation of the transformation rate. The results show partial retention of Mg and Sr during aragonite transformation to calcite in Mg-, Sr-free solutions, but no retention of d18O. Aragonite oxygen isotope composition was erased during mineral transformation because fractionation was controlled by temperature and the d18O of the bulk solution.
Experimentally Determined Rock Fluid Interactions Applicable To A Natural Hot Dry Rock Geothermal System
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language : en
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Release Date : 2005
Experimentally Determined Rock Fluid Interactions Applicable To A Natural Hot Dry Rock Geothermal System written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is pursuing laboratory and field experiments in the development of the Hot Dry Rock concept of geothermal energy. The field program consists of experiments in a hydraulically fractured region of low permeability in which hot rock is intercepted by two wellbores. These experiments are designed to test reservoir engineering parameters such as: heat extraction rates, water loss rates, flow characteristics including impedance and buoyancy, seismic activity and fluid chemistry. Laboratory experiments have been designed to provide information on the mineral reactivity which may be encountered in the field program. Two experimental circulation systems have been built to study the rates of dissolution and alteration in dynamic flow. Solubility studies have been done in agitated systems. To date, pure minerals, samples of the granodiorite from the actual reservoir and Tijeras Canyon granite have been reacted with distilled water and various solutions of NaCl, NaOH, and Na/sub 2/CO/sub 3/. The results of these experimental systems are compared to observations made in field experiments done in a hot dry rock reservoir at a depth of approximately 3 km with initial rock temperatures of 150 to 200/sup 0/C.
Water Rock Experiments To 300oc And Comparisons To Chemical Interactions In Active Geothermal Systems
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Author : George H. Kacandes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Water Rock Experiments To 300oc And Comparisons To Chemical Interactions In Active Geothermal Systems written by George H. Kacandes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Basaltic rocks have been reacted with synthetic groundwater in closed-system, Dickson-type rocking autoclaves for periods of up to 5,000 hours. The experiments were carried out isothermally at 100°, 200°, and 300° C, 300 bars, and an initial water/rock mass ratio of 10. These conditions were intended to simulate those present in active geothermal systems. Fluid compositions changed rapidly during the early stages of the experiments. In the long-term, however, most species approached steady-state values. At that stage, temperature appears to be the most important factor controlling fluid composition; the effect of rock type and starting fluid composition were far less significant. Comparison of long-term, stabilized fluid compositions with those produced in other dilute-water/whole-rock experiments (basaltic and non-basaltic) shows that experiments conducted at the same temperature attain similar overall fluid chemistries. Such behavior may reflect an approach to equilibrium of these fluids with thermochemically-similar alteration mineral assemblages. Stable fluid chemistries produced in these and other dilute-water/whole-rock experiments (80 °-300 ° C) were then compared with reservoir data from several geothermal fields. The comparisons show that experiments of this type can reproduce many properties of geothermal reservoir fluids. Like geothermal fluids, compositional parameters (pH, cation/proton ratios, cation/cation ratios, and neutral species concentrations) for species in experimentally derived fluids are temperature dependent but are relatively independent of rock, water, and water/rock mass ratio. At lower temperatures (less than or equal to 250° C), many of these experimental parameter-temperature trends agree with geothermal trends. However, at higher temperatures ( greater than or equal to 250° C), the geothermal fluids have calculated high-temperature pH values 1 to 2 pH units lower than do the experimentally-derived fluids. This produces a consistent offset between values of experimental and natural cation/proton activity ratios. Possible causes for the offsets include: pervasive metastable mineral formation in experiments; and absence, in experiments, of the equivalent of a magmatic or metamorphic gas input. Results from modified water/rock experiments indicate that, while metastability may be a partial cause for the offsets, geothermal fluid parameters can be duplicated by addition of CO2. Furthermore, maintenance of high /CO2, low pH conditions required a CO2 flux. Magmatic gas flux is not always considered in chemical models of geothermal systems and its requirement in the experiments may indicate that E CO2 should be taken as an independent variable. Finally, comparable offsets could also be caused by the addition of exotic co2 or other acid gases during upflow or sampling of wet steam discharges. Field influences such as these would give rise to lower than actual reservoir pH's. Thus the offsets could indicate that some geothermal fluid pH's are more basic than commonly calculated and closer to those attained in water/rock experiments. Water/rock experiments are capable of simulating many of the chemical features of geothermal reservoir fluids but interpretation of experimental data is not straightforward. The closed-system and relatively short-term nature of the experiments must be considered when making comparisons with natural phenomena. Of equal importance is a clear understanding of the natural phenomena being modeled.
Fluid Rock Interactions In A Carbon Storage Site Analogue Green River Utah
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Author : Niko Kampman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Fluid Rock Interactions In A Carbon Storage Site Analogue Green River Utah written by Niko Kampman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Reactions between CO2-charged brines and reservoir minerals might either enhance the long-term storage of CO2 in geological reservoirs or facilitate leakage by corroding cap rocks and fault seals. Modelling the progress of such reactions is frustrated by uncertainties in the absolute mineral surface reaction rates and the significance of other rate limiting steps in natural systems. This study uses the chemical evolution of groundwater from the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, part of a leaking natural accumulation of CO2 at Green River, Utah, in the Colorado Plateau, USA, to place constraints on the rates and potential controlling mechanisms of the mineral-fluid reactions,under elevated CO2 pressures, in a natural system. The progress of individual reactions, inferred from changes in groundwater chemistry is modelled using mass balance techniques. The mineral reactions are close to stoichiometric with plagioclase and K-feldspar dissolution largely balanced by precipitation of clay minerals and carbonate. Mineral modes, in conjunction with published surface area measurements and flow rates estimated from hydraulic head measurements, are then used to quantify the kinetics of feldspar dissolution. Maximum estimated dissolution rates for plagioclase and K-feldspar are 2x10-14 and 4x10-16 mol·m-2·s-1, respectively. Fluid ion-activity products are close to equilibrium (e.g. DGr for plagioclase between -2 and -10 kJ/mol) and lie in the region in which mineral surface reaction rates show a strong dependence on DGr. Local variation in DGr is attributed to the injection and disassociation of CO2 which initially depresses silicate mineral saturation in the fluid, promoting feldspar dissolution. With progressive flow through the aquifer, feldspar hydrolysis reactions consume H+ and liberate solutes to solution which increase mineral saturation in the fluid and rates slow as a consequence. The measured plagioclase dissolution rates at low DGr would be compatible with far-from-quilibrium rates of ~1x10-13 mol·m-2·s-1 as observed in some experimental studies. This suggests that the discrepancy between field and laboratory reaction rates may in part be explained by the differences in the thermodynamic state of natural and experimental fluids, with field-scale reactions occurring close to equilibrium whereas most laboratory experiments are run far-from-equilibrium. Surface carbonate deposits and cementation within the footwall of the local fault systems record multiple injections of CO2 into the Navajo Aquifer and leakage of CO2 from the site over ca. 400,000 years. The d18O, d13C and 87Sr/86Sr of these deposits record rapid rates of CO2 leakage (up to ~1000 tonnes/a) following injection of CO2, but rates differ by an order of magnitude between each fault, due to differences in the fault architecture. Elevated pCO2 enhances rates of feldspar dissolution in the host aquifer and carbonate precipitation in fracture conduits. Silicate mineral dissolution rates decline and carbonate precipitation rates increase as pH and the CO2 charge dissipate. The Sr/Ca of calcite cements record average precipitation rates of ~2x10-6 mol/m2/s, comparable to laboratory derived calcite precipitation rates in fluids with elevated Mn/Ca and Fe/Ca, at cc of ~1 to 3. This suggests that far-from-equilibrium carbonate precipitation, which blocks fracture conduits and causes the leaking system to self-seal, driven by CO2 degassing in the shallow subsurface, can be accurately modeled with laboratory derived rates. Sandstones altered in CO2 leakage conduits exhibit extensive dissolution of hematite grain coatings and are chemically bleached as a result. Measurements of Eh-pH conditions in the modern fluid, and modeling of paleo-Eh-pH conditions using calcite Fe and Mn concentrations, suggests that the CO2-charged groundwaters are reducing, due to their low dissolved O2 content and that pH suppression due to high pCO2 is capable of dissolving and transporting large concentrations of metals. Exhumed paleo-CO2 reservoirs along the crest of the Green River anticline have been identified using volatile hosting fluid inclusions. Paleo-CO2-charged fluids mobilized hydrocarbons and CH4 from deeper formations, enhancing the reductive dissolution of hematite, which produced spectacular km-scale bleached patterns in these sediment.