Enhanced safety of geologic CO2 storage with nanoparticles

Singh, Harpreet; Islam, Akand

doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.12.152

Title: Enhanced safety of geologic CO₂ storage with nanoparticles

Journal Article · Thu Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2018 · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.12.152· OSTI ID:1477843

Singh, Harpreet ^[1]; Islam, Akand ^[2]

National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
Plymouth, MI (United States)

In this paper, some methods have been developed to detect leakage of CO₂ from its desired storage domain, but that is not sufficient to prevent and mitigate a leak. Two techniques have been proposed to prevent the migration of buoyant CO₂ from the storage domain by expediting mixing of CO₂ with the brine and mitigate risk of its leakage risk. These two methods are injection of CO₂ pre-mixed with brine, and injection of CO₂ with nanoparticles (NPs). The former has been studied to some extent, however, understanding of the latter is very limited. Unlike the application of NPs in hydrocarbon recovery, its use to enhance safety of CO₂ storage is a fairly unexplored topic that can have important benefits for the safety of the storage process. Also, the use of NPs for subsurface application in general is compromised for its cost. We investigate how NPs produced from low-level nuclear waste can be added with injected CO₂ to enhance the mixing of CO₂ with brine, which can mitigate leakage risk of CO₂.

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Research Organization:: National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

OSTI ID:: 1477843

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1548815

Journal Information:: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 121, Issue C; ISSN 0017-9310

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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