Enhancing residual trapping of supercritical CO 2 via cyclic injections: Cyclic Injections Enhance scCO 2 Trapping

Herring, Anna L.; Andersson, Linnéa; Wildenschild, Dorthe

doi:10.1002/2016GL070304

Title: Enhancing residual trapping of supercritical CO ₂ via cyclic injections: Cyclic Injections Enhance scCO ₂ Trapping

Journal Article · Wed Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070304· OSTI ID:1508036

Herring, Anna L. ^[1]; Andersson, Linnéa ^[2]; Wildenschild, Dorthe ^[2]

Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States); Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia)
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)

We utilize synchrotron x-ray tomographic imaging to investigate the pore-scale characteristics and residual trapping of supercritical CO₂ (scCO₂) over the course of multiple drainage-imbibition (D-I) cycles in Bentheimer sandstone cores. Capillary pressure measurements are paired with image-based saturation and connectivity metrics which describe the extent of drainage and subsequent residual (end of imbibition) scCO₂ trapping. For the first D-I cycle, residual scCO₂ trapping is suppressed due to high imbibition capillary number (Ca≈10^-6); however, residual scCO₂ trapping dramatically increases for subsequent D-I cycles carried out at the same Ca value. The magnitude of scCO₂ trapping increase is hysteretic and depends on the relative extent of the sequential drainage processes. Increased trapping as a function of D-I cycle has not been observed in other similar mutli-cycle experiments; this suggests that chemical/geochemical reactions specific to our scCO₂-brine-sandstone experimental system may play a factor in the observed flow, mobilization, and residual trapping of scCO₂.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-94ER14466

OSTI ID:: 1508036

Report Number(s):: DOE-UCHICAGO-14466-4

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 43, Issue 18; ISSN 0094-8276

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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