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Environmental Earth Sciences
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences 1/2014

01-01-2014 | Original Article

Factors affecting CO2 storage capacity and efficiency with water withdrawal in shallow saline aquifers

Authors: Fang Yang, Baojun Bai, Shari Dunn-Norman, Runar Nygaard, Andreas Eckert

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 1/2014

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Abstract

Carbon sequestration in shallow aquifers can be facilitated by water withdrawal. The factors that optimize the injection/withdrawal balance to minimize potential environmental impacts have been studied, including reservoir size, well pattern, injection rate, reservoir heterogeneity, anisotropy ratio, and permeability sequence. The effects of these factors on CO2 storage capacity and efficiency were studied using a compositional simulator Computer Modeling Group-General Equation of State Model, which modeled features including residual gas trapping, CO2 solubility, and mineralization reactions. Two terms, storage efficiency and CO2 relative breakthrough time, were introduced to better describe the problem. The simulation results show that simultaneous water withdrawal during CO2 injection greatly improves CO2 storage capacity and efficiency. A certain degree of heterogeneity or anisotropy benefits CO2 storage. A high injection rate favors storage capacity, but reduces the storage efficiency and CO2 breakthrough time, which in turn limits the total amount of CO2 injected.
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Metadata
Title
Factors affecting CO2 storage capacity and efficiency with water withdrawal in shallow saline aquifers
Authors
Fang Yang
Baojun Bai
Shari Dunn-Norman
Runar Nygaard
Andreas Eckert
Publication date
01-01-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-013-2430-z

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