The effect of heterogeneity on the character of density-driven natural convection of CO2 overlying a brine layer |
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Authors: | R. Farajzadeh P. RanganathanP.L.J. Zitha J. Bruining |
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Affiliation: | a Shell International Exploration and Production, 2288 GS Rijswijk, The Netherlands b Delft University of Technology, Department of Geotechnology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | The efficiency of mixing in density-driven natural-convection is largely governed by the aquifer permeability, which is heterogeneous in practice. The character (fingering, stable mixing or channeling) of flow-driven mixing processes depends primarily on the permeability heterogeneity character of the aquifer, i.e., on its degree of permeability variance (Dykstra-Parsons coefficient) and the correlation length. Here we follow the ideas of Waggoner et al. (1992) [13] to identify different flow regimes of a density-driven natural convection flow by numerical simulation. Heterogeneous fields are generated with the spectral method of Shinozuka and Jan (1972) [13], because the method allows the use of power-law variograms. In this paper, we extended the classification of Waggoner et al. (1992) [13] for the natural convection phenomenon, which can be used as a tool in selecting optimal fields with maximum transfer rates of CO2 into water. We observe from our simulations that the rate of mass transfer of CO2 into water is higher for heterogeneous media. |
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Keywords: | Density-driven natural convection CO2 Porous media Mass transfer Heterogeneity |
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