CO2 convective dissolution in water-saturated unconsolidated porous media at reservoir conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Widuramina Amarasinghe ◽  
Ingebret Fjelde ◽  
Nils Harald Giske ◽  
Ying Guo
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Reservoir Conditions ◽  
Unconsolidated Porous Media ◽  
Water Saturated

scholarly journals CO2 Convective Dissolution in Oil-Saturated Unconsolidated Porous Media at Reservoir Conditions

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Widuramina Amarasinghe ◽  
Ingebret Fjelde ◽  
Nils Giske ◽  
Ying Guo
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Water Solution ◽  
Co2 Storage ◽  
Bromothymol Blue ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Dimensionless Time ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Reservoir Conditions ◽  
Unconsolidated Porous Media

During CO2 storage, CO2 plume mixes with the water and oil present at the reservoir, initiated by diffusion followed by a density gradient that leads to a convective flow. Studies are available where CO2 convective mixing have been studied in water phase but limited in oil phase. This study was conducted to reach this gap, and experiments were conducted in a vertically packed 3-dimensional column with oil-saturated unconsolidated porous media at 100 bar and 50 °C (representative of reservoir pressure and temperature conditions). N-Decane and crude oil were used as oils, and glass beads as porous media. A bromothymol blue water solution-filled sapphire cell connected at the bottom of the column was used to monitor the CO2 breakthrough. With the increase of the Rayleigh number, the CO2 transport rate in n-decane was found to increase as a function of a second order polynomial. Ra number vs. dimensionless time τ had a power relationship in the form of Ra = c×τ−n. The overall pressure decay was faster in n-decane compared to crude oil for similar permeability (4 D), and the crude oil had a breakthrough time three times slower than in n-decane. The results were compared with similar experiments that have been carried out using water.

scholarly journals Experimental study of the supercritical CO 2 diffusion coefficient in porous media under reservoir conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 181902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junchen Lv ◽  
Yuan Chi ◽  
Changzhong Zhao ◽  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Hailin Mu
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Elevated Pressure ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Saturated Porous Media ◽  
Reservoir Conditions ◽  
The Impact

Reliable measurement of the CO 2 diffusion coefficient in consolidated oil-saturated porous media is critical for the design and performance of CO 2 -enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. A thorough experimental investigation of the supercritical CO 2 diffusion in n -decane-saturated Berea cores with permeabilities of 50 and 100 mD was conducted in this study at elevated pressure (10–25 MPa) and temperature (333.15–373.15 K), which simulated actual reservoir conditions. The supercritical CO 2 diffusion coefficients in the Berea cores were calculated by a model appropriate for diffusion in porous media based on Fick's Law. The results show that the supercritical CO 2 diffusion coefficient increases as the pressure, temperature and permeability increase. The supercritical CO 2 diffusion coefficient first increases slowly at 10 MPa and then grows significantly with increasing pressure. The impact of the pressure decreases at elevated temperature. The effect of permeability remains steady despite the temperature change during the experiments. The effect of gas state and porous media on the supercritical CO 2 diffusion coefficient was further discussed by comparing the results of this study with previous study. Based on the experimental results, an empirical correlation for supercritical CO 2 diffusion coefficient in n -decane-saturated porous media was developed. The experimental results contribute to the study of supercritical CO 2 diffusion in compact porous media.

Cotransport of thallium(I) with polystyrene plastic particles in water-saturated porous media

2021 ◽  
pp. 126910
Author(s):  
Jinni Yao ◽  
Hainan Wang ◽  
Chengxue Ma ◽  
Yu Cao ◽  
Wanpeng Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Saturated Porous Media ◽  
Water Saturated

scholarly journals Electrokinetic-enhanced removal of toluene from physically heterogeneous granular porous media

2020 ◽  
pp. qjegh2020-073
Author(s):  
Richard Thomas Gill ◽  
Steven Thornton ◽  
Michael J. Harbottle ◽  
Jonathan W. N. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bench Scale ◽  
Toluene Concentration ◽  
Granular Porous Media ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
Scale Experiment ◽  
Water Saturated

Electrokinetics (EK) was applied to enhance biodegradation of toluene in the low hydraulic conductivity (K) zone of a physically heterogeneous water-saturated granular porous media. The hypothesis tested was that EK transport processes, which operate independently of advection, can deliver a limiting amendment, nitrate, across a high-K–low-K boundary to stimulate bioremediation. Two types of experiment were evaluated: (1) bench-scale tests that represented the active EK system and physically heterogeneous sediment configuration; (2) microcosms that represented biodegradation in the bench-scale tests under ideal conditions. The bench-scale experiment results showed a rapid decrease in toluene concentration during the application of EK that was attributed to electroosmotic removal from low-K zones. Comparison of toluene removal rates by electroosmosis and biodegradation (microcosm) confirmed that electroosmosis was the most effective mechanism under the conditions evaluated. Overall, this work challenges the original hypothesis and indicates that, at the field scale, the most favourable conditions for biodegradation are likely to be achieved by applying EK to increase contaminant flux across the low-K–high-K boundary (out of the low-K zone) and allowing biodegradation to occur in the high-K zone either by natural attenuation or enhanced by amendment addition.Supplementary material: Supplementary material is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5174554

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