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Title: Capillary pressure and saturation relations for supercritical CO 2 and brine in sand: High-pressure Pc ( Sw ) controller/meter measurements and capillary scaling predictions: CO 2 -Brine Capillary Pressure and Saturation in Sand

Journal Article · · Water Resources Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20316· OSTI ID:1383470
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  1. Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California USA
  2. Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California USA; Now at Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Louisiana USA
  3. Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California USA; Now at Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford California USA
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Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 (NCGC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1383470
Journal Information:
Water Resources Research, Vol. 49, Issue 8; Related Information: NCGC partners with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (lead); University of California, Davis; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ohio State University; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Washington University, St. Louis; ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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