Using streamlines for highly-resolved, reactive transport for CO 2 leakage contamination in groundwater

Adam L. Atchley; Reed M. Maxwell; Alexis Navarre-Sitchler; Erica R. Siirla; John E. McCray

Using streamlines for highly-resolved, reactive transport for CO ₂ leakage contamination in groundwater

Adam L. Atchley, Reed M. Maxwell, Alexis Navarre-Sitchler, Erica R. Siirla, John E. McCray

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Abstract

We present a Lagrangian streamline approach where a large, heterogeneous 3D flow field is reduced to a number of ID transport simulations. The streamline approach allows the mapping of these ID reactive transport simulations back onto a 3D flow field, thus accounting for spatial heterogeneity within the aquifer and complex aqueous geochemical processes. A CO₂ leakage scenario from a hypothetical CCS site is used where a resulting plume of CO₂ lowers the groundwater pH and mobilizes metals from an existing mineral host-rock distribution. The plume migration and related metal dissolution and precipitation within the aquifer were simulated using this streamline- geochemical modelling approach under varying hydrological heterogeneity variances (σ²InK)- Results showed that heterogeneity significantly influences well contamination and geochemical processes.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Models - Repositories of Knowledge
Pages	141-148
Number of pages	8
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modeling - Repositories of Knowledge, ModelCARE 2011 - Leipzig, Germany Duration: Sep 18 2011 → Sep 22 2011

Publication series

Name	IAHS-AISH Publication
Volume	355
ISSN (Print)	0144-7815

Conference

Conference	8th International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modeling - Repositories of Knowledge, ModelCARE 2011
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Leipzig
Period	9/18/11 → 9/22/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Keywords

Carbon capture and storage
Reactive transport
Uncertainty analysis

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