Overview
- Offers in-depth descriptions of the relevant processes
- Provides state-of-the-art descriptions of methodologies for measuring, characterizing, modeling and monitoring saline aquifers for CO2 geologic storage
- Approaches the topic systematically, from the fundamental processes to measurement, predictive modeling, and performance assessment methodologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 29)
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This book provides descriptions of relevant experimental methods, from laboratory experiments to field scale site characterization and techniques for monitoring spreading of the injected CO2 within the formation. Experiences from a number of important field injection projects are reviewed, as are those from CO2 natural analog sites. Lastly, the book presents relevant risk management methods.
Geological storage of CO2 is widely considered to be a key technology capable ofsubstantially reducing the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere, thereby reducing the negative impacts of such releases on the global climate. Around the world, projects are already in full swing, while others are now being initiated and executed to demonstrate the technology.
Deep saline formations are the geological formations considered to hold the highest storage potential, due to their abundance worldwide. To date, however, these formations have been relatively poorly characterized, due to their low economic value. Accordingly, the processes involved in injecting and storing CO2 in such formations still need to be better quantified and methods for characterizing, modeling and monitoring this type of CO2 storage in such formations must be rapidly developed and refined.
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Jacob Bear is a Professor Emeritus at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where he held the Albert and Anne Mansfield Chair in Water Resources as well as several administrative positions including Vice President for Academic Affairs. He was also the Dean of Engineering at the Kinneret Academic College in the Jordan Valley. Professor Bear is involved in research, consultancy and teaching in the area of groundwater flows, contaminant transport, and seawater intrusion in aquifers. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Delft University of Technology (1978) and from ETH Zurich (1988), and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). His work has been published in five books and in over 200 articles. He was the founder of the International Journal on Transport in Porous Media, published by Springer, and served as its Editor (1985-2010).
Jacob Bensabat received his PhD in 1986 from the Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology. Following post-doctoral research at MIT, his main focus has been on geo-hydrological consultancy, particularly the analysis and modeling of large-scale hydrogeological problems, including groundwater resources management, pollution control, design of remediation schemes and analysis of seawater intrusion processes. He is presently leading a CO2 injection experiment at Heletz (Israel) as part of the MUSTANG project and TRUST projects. He is currently the coordinator of the EU-FP7 TRUST project (2012-2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geological Storage of CO2 in Deep Saline Formations
Editors: Auli Niemi, Jacob Bear, Jacob Bensabat
Series Title: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0996-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0994-9Published: 03 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1460-8Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-0996-3Published: 24 February 2017
Series ISSN: 0924-6118
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6940
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 554
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geochemistry, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis