ECBM displacement experiments are a direct way to observe the gas displacement process and efficiency by inspecting the produced gas composition and flow rate. We conducted two sets of ECBM experiments by injecting N2 and CO2 through four large parallel specimens (300 × 50 × 50 mm coal briquette). N2 or CO2 is injected at pressures of 1.5, 1.8, and 2.2 MPa and various crustal stresses. The chan...

The evaluation of possible leakage pathways from CO2 storage operations requires attention to the magnitude, concentration and timescales involved. Herein we discuss a problem related to CO2 storage, the migration of CO2 as it is injected. This is accomplished through the application of analytical solutions. In particular, we derive a new analytical insight into the problem of fluid injection i...

7 Persistent scatterers synthetic aperture radar interferometry (PSI) analysis is viewed as a 8 promising monitoring technique for multiyear detection of ground surface displacements 9 during long term CO2 injection into deep aquifers (of the order of 25 to 50 years). 10 This technique was successfully utilized at the CO2 storage site of In-Salah (Algeria). 11 Nevertheless, this success may not...

A promising way to mitigate global warming is to sequester CO2 in deep saline aquifers. In order to determine which aquifers are the best for sequestration, it is helpful to estimate how much CO2 they can store. Currently, this is difficult because both the pressure buildup from injection and the volume of available pore space have been identified as constraints, but have not been compared to d...

Dynamic imaging provides an effective way to integrate previous surveys seismic data in order to estimate current velocity model. It is particularly useful for time-lapse imaging, which has been successfully applied to reservoir monitoring over the years by oil industry and developed for CO2 sequestration monitoring more recently. This work aims to introduce a new dynamic imaging method for per...

A promising way to mitigate global warming is to sequester CO2 in deep saline aquifers. In order to determine which aquifers are the best for sequestration, it is helpful to estimate how much CO2 they can store. Currently, this is difficult because both the pressure buildup from injection and the volume of available pore space have been identified as constraints, but have not been compared to d...

Verification of appropriate precordial Doppler probe position over the anterior chest wall is crucial for early detection of venous air embolism. We studied responses to normal saline (NS) and carbon dioxide (CO2) test injections at various probe locations during elective craniotomy. All patients received four IV injections (10 mL of NS and 1 mL of CO2 via central and peripheral venous catheter...

The scale of CO2 injection into the subsurface required to address CO2 atmospheric concentrations is unprecedented. Multiple injection sites injecting into multiple formations will create a large excess pressure zone extending far beyond the limited volume where CO2 is present. In a closed system, additional mass is accommodated by the compressibility of system components, an increase in fluid ...

To investigate the potential for the geologic storage of CO2 in saline sedimentary aquifers, 1600 t of CO2 were injected at 1500 m depth into a 24-m-thick sandstone section of the Frio Formation, a regional brine and oil reservoir in the U.S. Gulf Coast. Fluid samples obtained from the injection and observation wells before CO2 injection showed a Na-CaCl–type brine with 93,000 mg/L total dissol...