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Reservoir Engineering and Carbon Sequestration

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 3084

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Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
Interests: data analytics; deep learning; computational modeling; reservoir engineering; reservoir simulation; subsurface flow modeling; CO2 geological sequestration; petroleum geoscience

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Dear Colleagues,

For sustainable and environment-unharmful energy development, the reliable analyses of subsurface fluid flow are essential since most energy resources are obtained from the underground space. However, the subsurface domain is uncertain and thereby the robust and reliable computer-assisted tools for interpreting complex geo-data that are related to a broad range of disciplines, such as geology, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, and CO2 storage. Uncertainty quantification needs computational efforts to understand the earth system and to optimize the production operations for sustainable energy-resources development. This special issue pursues sustainability managing different-scale data to solve complex geoscience problems related to reservoir engineering and carbon sequestration. The topic of interest is the cutting-edge computer-assisted technologies to solve geoscience problems and to optimize the complex multidisciplinary problems. Related topics include but are not limted to the following subjects:

(1) Reservoir engineering

(2) Compuational modeling

(3) Optimization

(4) Data science (deep learning, machine learning, data assimilation)

(5) CO2 geological storage

(7) Uncertainty quantification

(8) Multiphase flow associated with earth system

(9) Geothermal energy

Prof. Dr. Changhyup Park
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • data science
  • deep learning
  • computational modelling
  • reservoir engineering
  • CO2 storage

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14 pages, 1883 KiB  
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Effect of the Flow Rate on the Relative Permeability Curve in the CO2 and Brine System for CO2 Sequestration
by Gu Sun Jeong, Seil Ki, Dae Sung Lee and Ilsik Jang
Sustainability 2021, 13(3), 1543; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031543 - 1 Feb 2021
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Abstract
The relative permeabilities of CO2 and brine are important parameters that account for two-phase flow behavior, CO2 saturation distribution, and injectivity. CO2/brine relative permeability curves from the literature show low endpoint CO2 permeability values and high residual brine [...] Read more.
The relative permeabilities of CO2 and brine are important parameters that account for two-phase flow behavior, CO2 saturation distribution, and injectivity. CO2/brine relative permeability curves from the literature show low endpoint CO2 permeability values and high residual brine saturation values. These are the most distinguishing aspects of the CO2/brine relative permeability from oil/water and gas/oil. In this study, this aspect is investigated experimentally by employing a wide range of CO2 injection flow rates. As a result, all the measurements align with previous studies, having low endpoint relative permeability and high residual brine saturation values. They have obvious relationships with the changes in CO2 flow rates. As the CO2 flow rate increases, the endpoint relative permeability increases, the residual brine saturation decreases, and they converge to specific values. These imply that a high CO2 injection flow rate results in high displacement efficiency, but the improvement in efficiency decreases as the flow rate increases. The reasons are identified with the concept of the viscous and capillary forces, and their significance in the CO2 injection into a reservoir is analyzed. Full article
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