Hydromechanical characterization of CO2 injection sites

A hydromechanical approach to assess CO2 injection-induced surface uplift and caprock deflection

This study focuses on the derivation of a semi-analytical approach for the evaluation of surface uplift and caprock deflection induced by underground injection of CO2. The adopted methodology includes the development of amathematical model that incorporates the deformable behaviour of the storage reservoir and the flow of two immiscible fluids (CO2 and brine) within the aquifer while the surfac...

Coupled Hydromechanical Modeling of Co2 Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers

Sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep saline aquifers has emerged as an option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. The large amounts of supercritical CO2 that need to be injected into deep saline aquifers may cause large fluid pressure increases. The resulting overpressure may promote reactivation of sealed fractures or the creation of new ones in the caprock seal. ...

Development of Co2 Injection Method “cosmos” for Co2 Ocean Storage

Ocean storage of CO2 was proposed by Marchetti as one of greenhouse gas control technologies, where CO2 is captured from flue gas of fossil fuels and injected into deep seafloor below the depth of 3500m to be sequestered from the atmosphere as shown in Fig. 1. In the last decade of the twenties century, there was a great progress in study on the ocean storage. Aya and his colleagues and Nishika...

Supervised Injection Sites

Microengineered hydromechanical cochlear model.

Micromachined fluid-filled variable impedance waveguides intended to mimic the mechanics of the passive mammalian cochlea have been fabricated and experimentally examined. The structures were microfabricated with dimensions similar to those of the biological system. Experimental tests demonstrate acoustically excited traveling fluid-structure waves with phase accumulations between 1.5 and 3 pi ...