Parametric study of Aerosol Behaviour and Solvent Emission in a Post Combustion Carbon Capture

The amine-based post combustion carbon capture process is one of the most advanced and preferred technologies to reduce CO2 emissions from point sources like power plants. The emissions of amine from capture plants is one of the biggest challenges faced by this technology. These emissions typically occur by means of aerosol/mist formation. To...

A multi-scale approach for numerical modelling of the CO2 sequestration process

Subsurface carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration is a promising technology to reduce the CO2 emission into the atmosphere. After injection into subsurface formation, the carbon dioxide plume can migrate several kilometres until it is fully trapped. Four major mechanisms play an important role in trapping which include structural trapping, residual...

Formation dry-out and injectivity impairment during CO2 storage in saline aquifers

This research concerns the geological storage of CO2 and in particular injectivity impairment problems related to salt precipitation. Drying and salt precipitation in geological formations can have serious consequences for upstream operations in terms of injectivity and productivity. This can negatively affect the performance of injection and...

Computational Modeling of Hydro-Electro-Mechanical Flow During CO2 Geosequestration

CO2 geo-sequestration (CGS) is considered to be a feasible technology for reducing the amount of CO2 emission into the atmosphere. Selection of an appropriate reservoir is vital and requires appropriate knowledge of the involved phenomena and processes. In a CO2 geo-sequestration process, carbon dioxide goes through mainly four storage (trapping...

Mechanisms for CO2 Sequestration in Geological Formations and Enhanced Gas Recovery

The work described in this thesis deals with a variety of aspects related to the storage of carbon dioxide in geological formations. In particular we focus on the transfer between the gas phase to a fluid (liquid) or solid phase. This thesis limits its interest to study the sequestration capacity of CO2 in saline aquifers and more specifically...

A computational model for CO2 leakage in heterogeneous formation (abstract)

An empirical theory for gravitationally unstable flow in porous media

In this paper, we follow a similar procedure as proposed by Koval (SPE J 3(2):145–154, 1963) to analytically model CO2 transfer between the overriding carbon dioxide layer and the brine layer below it. We show that a very thin diffusive layer on top separates the interface from a gravitationally unstable convective flow layer below it. Flow in...

Enhanced transport phenomena in CO2 sequestration and CO2 EOR

The results of this thesis give insight into the (mass)-transfer during flow of gases, especially CO2, in various gas-liquid systems. A number of experiments was performed to investigate the transport phenomena through interfaces with and without surfactant monolayers. The observed phenomena have been incorporated into physical models to predict...

Numerical modelling on super-diffusion of carbon-dioxide in coal

Case II (super)-diffusion is characterized by a diffusion like process that goes faster than the square root of time. Superdiffusion can occur in polymeric structures if a stress gradient enhances the diffusion process. In such a case the part of the polymer invaded by the penetrant, e.g. CO2, undergoes a transition in structure from the glass...