Coupled Reactive Transport Model for Heat and Density Driven Flow in Storage in Saline Aquifers
Publication: Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste
Volume 15, Issue 4
Abstract
In this paper, a novel reactive diffusion-convection transport model is proposed to investigate the flow during different trappings in deep saline aquifers. Dissolved and immiscible have trapping times ranging from 1 million to several million years. The mineral trapping has a much longer temporal scale than the solubility trapping. The fine resolution of diffusion-to-advection characteristics is mapped by a corresponding implementation of finite-element numerical simulation. The diffusivity and reaction rate has prominent effects on diffusion-convection-reaction behaviors of the -brine system. The 2-D numerical solutions give insight into the trapping evolution of injected in a deep subsurface environment.
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to three anonymous reviewers for a very careful review of the manuscript and the critical comments for improvements. Thanks to Ming Zhang (GSJ) for the invitation to this special issue of the Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste. This research was funded by five projects during 2003–2010, in particular, the BaiRenJiHua program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste
Volume 15 • Issue 4 • October 2011
Pages: 251 - 258
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Received: Jun 22, 2010
Accepted: Oct 12, 2010
Published online: Nov 8, 2010
Published in print: Oct 1, 2011
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