Western Australia basalt-CO2-brine wettability at geo-storage conditions.
CO2 geo-storage is a technique, where millions of tonnes of CO2 are stored in underground formations every year for permanent immobilization to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Among promising geo-storage formations, basalt is attracting keen interest from researchers and industry. However, the lite...
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CO2 geo-storage is a technique, where millions of tonnes of CO2 are stored in underground formations every year for permanent immobilization to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Among promising geo-storage formations, basalt is attracting keen interest from researchers and industry. However, the literature severely lacks information on the wetting behaviour of basaltic rocks at geo-storage conditions. To enable a more general statement of basalt-scCO2-brine contact angles, the wettability of a basalt from Western Australia was compared with a similar rock type from Iceland. This study reports the advancing and receding contact angles for a basalt-scCO2-brine system at pressures ranging from 0.1 to 20 MPa and temperatures of 298 and 323 K, respectively. Based on the experimental data, the amount of CO2, expressed by the column height, which could be safely trapped beneath the basalt was then calculated. The basalt was initially water-wet but with increasing pressure, it was converted sequentially from a water-wet to an intermediate-wet and then finally into a completely CO2-wet template at pressures exceeding 15 MPa and 323 K. Under those experimental conditions, found in the field at depths below 1500 m, injected supercritical CO2 into a porous basalt reservoir is assumed to flow freely in lateral and vertical directions and is less impeded by capillary/residual trapping, potentially leading to CO2 leakage. It is suggested that the injection depth should not be chosen too deep to avoid increased free CO2 plume mobility. It is found from CO2 column height calculations that at 800 m depth (a minimum requirement to keep CO2 supercritical), the height of the CO2 column that can be safely trapped below the cap rock, was still 100 m but shrank to nil at ≥1500 m. |
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Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division Western Australia School of Mines, Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Kensington 6151, Western Australia, Australia. Petroleum Engineering Discipline, School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Dr, Joondalup 6027, Western Australia, Australia. Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, New M. A. Jinnah Road Ext., Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 74800, Pakistan. Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Wyoming, 82071 WY, USA. School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Kensington 6151, Western Australia, Australia. |
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ftkingabdullahun:oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/669865 2024-01-07T09:44:17+01:00 Western Australia basalt-CO2-brine wettability at geo-storage conditions. Al-Yaseri, Ahmed Ali, Mujahid Ali, Muhammad Taheri, Reza Wolff-Boenisch, Domenik Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division Western Australia School of Mines, Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Kensington 6151, Western Australia, Australia. Petroleum Engineering Discipline, School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Dr, Joondalup 6027, Western Australia, Australia. Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, New M. A. Jinnah Road Ext., Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 74800, Pakistan. Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Wyoming, 82071 WY, USA. School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Kensington 6151, Western Australia, Australia. 2021-07-01T06:34:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/10754/669865 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.078 unknown Elsevier BV https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0021979721009528 Al-Yaseri, A., Ali, M., Ali, M., Taheri, R., & Wolff-Boenisch, D. (2021). Western Australia basalt-CO2-brine wettability at geo-storage conditions. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 603, 165–171. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.078 doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.078 0021-9797 Journal of colloid and interface science 165-171 34186394 http://hdl.handle.net/10754/669865 603 NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of colloid and interface science. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of colloid and interface science, [603, , (2021-06-29)] DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.078 . © 2021. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 2023-06-29 Article 2021 ftkingabdullahun https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.078 2023-12-09T20:19:03Z CO2 geo-storage is a technique, where millions of tonnes of CO2 are stored in underground formations every year for permanent immobilization to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Among promising geo-storage formations, basalt is attracting keen interest from researchers and industry. However, the literature severely lacks information on the wetting behaviour of basaltic rocks at geo-storage conditions. To enable a more general statement of basalt-scCO2-brine contact angles, the wettability of a basalt from Western Australia was compared with a similar rock type from Iceland. This study reports the advancing and receding contact angles for a basalt-scCO2-brine system at pressures ranging from 0.1 to 20 MPa and temperatures of 298 and 323 K, respectively. Based on the experimental data, the amount of CO2, expressed by the column height, which could be safely trapped beneath the basalt was then calculated. The basalt was initially water-wet but with increasing pressure, it was converted sequentially from a water-wet to an intermediate-wet and then finally into a completely CO2-wet template at pressures exceeding 15 MPa and 323 K. Under those experimental conditions, found in the field at depths below 1500 m, injected supercritical CO2 into a porous basalt reservoir is assumed to flow freely in lateral and vertical directions and is less impeded by capillary/residual trapping, potentially leading to CO2 leakage. It is suggested that the injection depth should not be chosen too deep to avoid increased free CO2 plume mobility. It is found from CO2 column height calculations that at 800 m depth (a minimum requirement to keep CO2 supercritical), the height of the CO2 column that can be safely trapped below the cap rock, was still 100 m but shrank to nil at ≥1500 m. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: KAUST Repository Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 603 165 171 |