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Title: Impact of Mineral Reactive Surface Area on Forecasting Geological Carbon Sequestration in a CO2-EOR Field

Abstract

Mineral reactive surface area (RSA) is one of the key factors that control mineral reactions, as it describes how much mineral is accessible and can participate in reactions. This work aims to evaluate the impact of mineral RSA on numerical simulations for CO2 storage at depleted oil fields. The Farnsworth Unit (FWU) in northern Texas was chosen as a case study. A simplified model was used to screen representative cases from 87 RSA combinations to reduce the computational cost. Three selected cases with low, mid, and high RSA values were used for the FWU model. Results suggest that the impact of RSA values on CO2 mineral trapping is more complex than it is on individual reactions. While the low RSA case predicted negligible porosity change and an insignificant amount of CO2 mineral trapping for the FWU model, the mid and high RSA cases forecasted up to 1.19% and 5.04% of porosity reduction due to mineral reactions, and 2.46% and 9.44% of total CO2 trapped in minerals by the end of the 600-year simulation, respectively. The presence of hydrocarbons affects geochemical reactions and can lead to net CO2 mineral trapping, whereas mineral dissolution is forecasted when hydrocarbons are removed from themore » system.« less

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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
OSTI Identifier:
1771240
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1849092
Grant/Contract Number:  
FC26-05NT42591
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Energies
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Energies Journal Volume: 14 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher:
MDPI AG
Country of Publication:
Switzerland
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; Energy & Fuels; geological carbon sequestration; reactive surface area; mineral trapping; enhanced oil recovery with CO2 (CO2-EOR); geochemical reactions; risk assessment

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Jia, Wei, Xiao, Ting, Wu, Zhidi, Dai, Zhenxue, and McPherson, Brian. Impact of Mineral Reactive Surface Area on Forecasting Geological Carbon Sequestration in a CO2-EOR Field. Switzerland: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.3390/en14061608.
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Jia, Wei, Xiao, Ting, Wu, Zhidi, Dai, Zhenxue, & McPherson, Brian. Impact of Mineral Reactive Surface Area on Forecasting Geological Carbon Sequestration in a CO2-EOR Field. Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061608
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Jia, Wei, Xiao, Ting, Wu, Zhidi, Dai, Zhenxue, and McPherson, Brian. Sun . "Impact of Mineral Reactive Surface Area on Forecasting Geological Carbon Sequestration in a CO2-EOR Field". Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061608.
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@article{osti_1771240,
title = {Impact of Mineral Reactive Surface Area on Forecasting Geological Carbon Sequestration in a CO2-EOR Field},
author = {Jia, Wei and Xiao, Ting and Wu, Zhidi and Dai, Zhenxue and McPherson, Brian},
abstractNote = {Mineral reactive surface area (RSA) is one of the key factors that control mineral reactions, as it describes how much mineral is accessible and can participate in reactions. This work aims to evaluate the impact of mineral RSA on numerical simulations for CO2 storage at depleted oil fields. The Farnsworth Unit (FWU) in northern Texas was chosen as a case study. A simplified model was used to screen representative cases from 87 RSA combinations to reduce the computational cost. Three selected cases with low, mid, and high RSA values were used for the FWU model. Results suggest that the impact of RSA values on CO2 mineral trapping is more complex than it is on individual reactions. While the low RSA case predicted negligible porosity change and an insignificant amount of CO2 mineral trapping for the FWU model, the mid and high RSA cases forecasted up to 1.19% and 5.04% of porosity reduction due to mineral reactions, and 2.46% and 9.44% of total CO2 trapped in minerals by the end of the 600-year simulation, respectively. The presence of hydrocarbons affects geochemical reactions and can lead to net CO2 mineral trapping, whereas mineral dissolution is forecasted when hydrocarbons are removed from the system.},
doi = {10.3390/en14061608},
journal = {Energies},
number = 6,
volume = 14,
place = {Switzerland},
year = {Sun Mar 14 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Sun Mar 14 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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