Reservoir storage and containment of greenhouse gases, II: Vapour-entry pressures |
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Authors: | Graham J Weir Stephen P White Warwick M Kissling |
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Institution: | (1) Applied Mathematics, Industrial Research Ltd, The New Zealand Institute for Industrial Research and Development, PO Box 31-310, Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | This paper investigates the role of a nonzero vapour entry pressure on reservoir storage and containment of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Two effects are observed: vapour storage under confining layers, and enhanced lateral spreading of gas under confining layers. Lateral flow of gas under both impermeable and permeable confining layers is solved analytically using Buckley-Leverett assumptions. A full numerical analysis of gas and water transport is also presented, using results from the simulator TOUGH. We consider the injection of CO2 from a thermal power plant at a rate of 100 kg/s for 10 years, at a depth of 3000 metres. Inclusion of a nonzero vapour entry pressure shows that containment of this gas for at least 5000 years can be expected. The CO2 is stored predominantly in a high density vapour phase (about 600 kg/m3) under lower permeability confining layers, and also is dissolved in liquid at about 40 kg/m3. |
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Keywords: | carbon dioxide reservoir storage greenhouse gases |
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