Thursday, November 8, 2007: 12:30 PM-3:00 PM
Room 251 B (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Topical 2: New Frontiers in Energy Research (T2)

#567 - Advanced Modeling Methods in Carbon Dioxide Sequestration - II (T2000)
The reactive transport process of sequestering carbon dioxide in geologic formations is complicated. The physical processes involved are dissolution of carbon dioxide in brine, transport and trapping of free gas and brine and complex mineralogical reactions between carbon dioxide, brine and rocks of given composition. Gas adsorption, desorption and multiphase flow are the most relevant mechanisms when coalbeds are used for storage. This session will address advanced modeling issues related to storage of carbon dioxide in underground formations. Modeling heterogeneities and parameter uncertainties, model validation, upscaling laboratory scale information and flow and transport in faults and fractures would be some of the topics considered.
Chair:Milind D. Deo
CoChair:Brian McPherson
12:30 PMSimulation, Economics and Sensitivity Study of Ethanol Synthesis from CO2
Debangsu Bhattacharyya, Gregory A. Campbell, Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Don H. Rasmussen
12:55 PMCollapsing Plumes Arising From The Release Of Carbon Dioxide In The Ocean
Silvana S. S. Cardoso, Sean T. McHugh
1:20 PMCoupled Hydrogeomechanical Impacts of Carbon Sequestration
Brian McPherson, Liangxiong Li, Milind Deo
1:45 PMA New Trapping Mechanism In Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Zhiqiang Gu, Milind Deo, Brian McPherson

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