Subsurface injection of combustion power plant effluent as a solid-phase carbon dioxide storage strategy
Abstract
Long-term geological storage of CO2 may be essential for greenhouse gas mitigation, so a number of storage strategies have been developed that utilize a variety of physical processes. Recent work shows that injection of combustion power plant effluent, a mixture of CO2 and N2, into CH4 hydrate-bearing reservoirs blends CO2 storage with simultaneous CH4 production where the CO2 is stored in hydrate, an immobile, solid compound. This strategy creates economic value from the CH4 production, reduces the preinjection complexity since costly CO2 distillation is circumvented, and limits leakage since hydrate is immobile. In this work, we explore the phase behavior of these types of injections and describe the individual roles of H2O, CO2, CH4, and N2 as these components partition into aqueous, vapor, hydrate, and liquid CO2 phases. Our results show that CO2 storage in subpermafrost or submarine hydrate-forming reservoirs requires coinjection of N2 to maintain two-phase flow and limit plugging.
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[1];
[2]
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Dept. of Geological Sciences, Inst. for Geophysics and Jackson School of Geosciences
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1473893
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1375277
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FE0010406
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 44; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; carbon storage; hydrate; methane production
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Darnell, K. N., Flemings, P. B., and DiCarlo, D. Subsurface injection of combustion power plant effluent as a solid-phase carbon dioxide storage strategy. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/2017GL073663.
Darnell, K. N., Flemings, P. B., & DiCarlo, D. Subsurface injection of combustion power plant effluent as a solid-phase carbon dioxide storage strategy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073663
Darnell, K. N., Flemings, P. B., and DiCarlo, D. Tue .
"Subsurface injection of combustion power plant effluent as a solid-phase carbon dioxide storage strategy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073663. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1473893.
@article{osti_1473893,
title = {Subsurface injection of combustion power plant effluent as a solid-phase carbon dioxide storage strategy},
author = {Darnell, K. N. and Flemings, P. B. and DiCarlo, D.},
abstractNote = {Long-term geological storage of CO2 may be essential for greenhouse gas mitigation, so a number of storage strategies have been developed that utilize a variety of physical processes. Recent work shows that injection of combustion power plant effluent, a mixture of CO2 and N2, into CH4 hydrate-bearing reservoirs blends CO2 storage with simultaneous CH4 production where the CO2 is stored in hydrate, an immobile, solid compound. This strategy creates economic value from the CH4 production, reduces the preinjection complexity since costly CO2 distillation is circumvented, and limits leakage since hydrate is immobile. In this work, we explore the phase behavior of these types of injections and describe the individual roles of H2O, CO2, CH4, and N2 as these components partition into aqueous, vapor, hydrate, and liquid CO2 phases. Our results show that CO2 storage in subpermafrost or submarine hydrate-forming reservoirs requires coinjection of N2 to maintain two-phase flow and limit plugging.},
doi = {10.1002/2017GL073663},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 44,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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