Monitoring of CO2 Plume Migration in Deep Saline Formations with Kinetic Interface Sensitive Tracers (A Numerical Modelling Study for the Laboratory)

Tatomir, Alexandru; Jyoti, Apoorv; Sauter, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27019-7_4

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“…This work follows previous research carried out by Tatomir et al (, ), where a mathematical and numerical framework was established for the design and application of the KIS tracer in laboratory experiments and theoretical studies (Tatomir et al, ). In this paper, we provide a proof of concept for the use of KIS tracers by designing a relatively inexpensive, simple, and highly controlled column experiment to study the dynamic fluid‐fluid IFA and compare them with numerical results from both an academic code (DuMu x ) and a commercial code (COMSOL Multiphysics 5.2 finite element tool box).…”

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“…The drainage process, defined as the nonwetting phase displacement of the wetting phase, can be mathematically represented by the well‐known governing macroscale equations for immiscible two‐phase porous media flow (Helmig, ; Tatomir et al, ; see supporting information Text S2).…”

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“…With the ability to write the set of governing partial differential equations into one of its interfaces, Comsol achieves a flexibility similar to academic codes. A sensitivity analysis to determine the KIS tracer behavior with regard to changes in flow and transport parameters performed with the Comsol model is discussed in Tatomir et al (). Comsol spatial discretization is finite element method, and the time discretization is backward Euler.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite the suite of aqueous and gaseous tracers available, they were only applied in static or quasi‐static conditions. Little has yet been done in the delineation of the fluid‐fluid interfaces, for dynamic flow conditions (Tatomir et al, ). A review of tracer techniques commonly used in monitoring carbon capture and storage projects can be found in Myers et al (, ), Niemi et al (), Tatomir et al ().…”

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“…We begin by presenting the experimental setup and numerical framework for the column test, followed by the experimental methods and results to determining key parameters and IFA. A validation of the numerical models as presented by Tatomir et al (, ) is concomitantly done by comparing it to experimentally determined breakthrough curves.…”

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Kinetic Interface Sensitive Tracers: Experimental Validation in a Two‐Phase Flow Column Experiment. A Proof of Concept

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The quantification of the interfacial area between fluids in a multiphase system in porous media has been a subject of growing interest in disciplines where mass transfer across fluid interfaces is of importance. In this study, a proof of concept for a novel kinetic interface sensitive (KIS) tracer is provided by employing a simple, low-cost, well-controlled dynamic column experiment in conjunction with a macroscale two-phase flow reactive transport model. The steel column is filled with a well-characterized porous medium consisting of well-sorted normally distributed glass beads (d 50 = 240 μm). KIS tracers were designed to determine the specific interfacial area, a wn , between a nonwetting fluid and a wetting fluid, by evaluating the chemical reaction rates and mass transfer across the fluid-fluid interface. This study shows for the first time a general framework behind the use of KIS tracers and their potential in assessing the a wn for a known capillary pressure-saturation relationship under laboratory conditions. A two-phase flow four-component reactive transport and a two-phase flow two-component transport numerical model were developed to simulate the oil flooding of the initially water saturated column and tracer breakthrough curves obtained from experimental data. These breakthrough curves were subsequently used to approximate a wn using a polynomial relationship. The interpretation of the KIS tracer column experiments indicates that the range for maximum value of a wn is between 500 and 540 m 2 /m 3 . The results also show that despite the use of two independently synthesized tracers, if the reaction kinetics are well quantified, similar a wn values can be obtained.

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confidence: 87%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Modeling Multiphase Flow and Transport Of Kis‐tracer Reactiomentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Reservoir characterization by push-pull tests employing kinetic interface sensitive tracers - a pore-scale study for understanding large-scale processes

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Tatomir

Karadimitriou

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A Two‐Phase, Pore‐Scale Reactive Transport Model for the Kinetic Interface‐Sensitive Tracer

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Tatomir

Karadimitriou

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Water Resources Research

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Understanding multi-phase, multi-component, reactive flow and transport in porous media is important for a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. Such applications comprise for example the geological storage of carbon dioxide, groundwater remediation, enhanced oil recovery, material manufacturing, and so on (Scheer et al., 2021). In this context, the quantification of the magnitude of the Fluid-Fluid Interfacial Area (FIFA) is essential for studying reactive multi-phase flow and transport in porous materials (Hassanizadeh & Gray, 1990;Miller et al., 1990;Reeves & Celia, 1996). For example, in geological storage of CO 2 , both the rate of CO 2 dissolution in brine and the extent of the residual trapping are determined by the FIFA (Tatomir et al., 2018). Existing techniques for FIFA measurement mainly comprise tracer techniques, e.g., Interfacial Partitioning Tracer Tests (IPTT)

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Monitoring of CO2 Plume Migration in Deep Saline Formations with Kinetic Interface Sensitive Tracers (A Numerical Modelling Study for the Laboratory)

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Kinetic Interface Sensitive Tracers: Experimental Validation in a Two‐Phase Flow Column Experiment. A Proof of Concept

Kinetic Interface Sensitive Tracers: Experimental Validation in a Two‐Phase Flow Column Experiment. A Proof of Concept

Reservoir characterization by push-pull tests employing kinetic interface sensitive tracers - a pore-scale study for understanding large-scale processes

A Two‐Phase, Pore‐Scale Reactive Transport Model for the Kinetic Interface‐Sensitive Tracer

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