Evaluating the Suitability for CO₂ Storage at the FutureGen 2.0 Site, Morgan County, Illinois, USA

Journal Article · Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Energy Procedia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.541· OSTI ID:1111208

Bonneville, Alain ^[1]; Gilmore, Tyler J. ^[1]; Sullivan, E. C. ^[1]; Vermeul, Vincent R. ^[1]; Kelley, Mark E. ^[1]; White, Signe K. ^[1]; Appriou, Delphine ^[1]; Bjornstad, Bruce N. ^[1]; Gerst, Jacqueline L. ^[2]; Gupta, Neeraj ^[2]; Horner, Jacob A. ^[1]; McNeil, Caitlin ^[2]; Moody, Mark A. ^[2]; Rike, William M. ^[2]; Spane, Frank A. ^[1]; Thorne, Paul D. ^[1]; Zeller, Evan R. ^[2]; Zhang, Z. F. ^[1]; Hoffman, Jeffrey ^[3]; Humphreys, Kenneth K. ^[4]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
2. Battelle, Columbus, OH (United States)
3. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, (United States)
4. FutureGen Industrial Alliance Inc., Washington, DC (United States)

FutureGen 2.0 site will be the first near-zero emission power plant with fully integrated long-term storage in a deep, non-potable saline aquifer in the United States. The proposed FutureGen 2.0 CO₂ storage site is located in northeast Morgan County, Illinois, U.S.A., forty-eight kilometres from the Meredosia Energy Center where a large-scale oxy-combustion demonstration will be conducted. The demonstration will involve > 90% carbon capture, which will produce more than one million metric tons (MMT) of CO₂ per year. The CO₂ will be compressed at the power plant and transported via pipeline to the storage site. To examine CO₂ storage potential of the site, a 1,467m characterization well (FGA#1) was completed in December 2011. The target reservoir for CO₂ storage is the Mt. Simon Sandstone and Elmhurst Sandstone Member of the lower Eau Claire Formation for a combined thickness of 176 m. Confining beds of the overlying Lombard and Proviso Members (upper Eau Claire Formation) reach a thickness of 126 m. Characterization of the target injection zone and the overlying confining zone was based on wellbore data, cores, and geophysical logs, along with surface geophysical (2-D seismic profiles, magnetic and gravity), and structural data collected during the initial stage of the project . Based on this geological model, 3D simulations of CO₂ injection and redistribution were conducted using STOMP-CO₂, a multiphase flow and transport simulator. After this characterization stage, it appears that the injection site is a suitable geologic system for CO₂ sequestration and that the injection zone is sufficient to receive up to 33 MMT of CO₂ at a rate of 1.1 MMT/yr. GHGT-11 conference

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1111208
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-91308; 600306000
• Journal Information: Energy Procedia, Vol. 37; ISSN 1876-6102
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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carbon sequestration
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