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Flow and Transport in Permeable Media (GRS)

Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar

Emerging Research Opportunities and Challenges in the Characterization and Simulation of Geological CO2 Storage

July 10 - 11, 2010
Chairs and
Bates College
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, Maine, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar on Flow & Transport In Permeable Media is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is the scientific basis of geological CO2 storage, including characterization of the storage site, physical and chemical processes during CO2 migration, multiscale and multiphysics numerical simulation of CO2 evolution, and geophysical and geochemical monitoring of storage performance.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Flow and Transport in Permeable Media" Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pmOverview of Geological CO2 Storage
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Sally Benson (Stanford University)
"Experimental and Numerical Investigation of CO2 Sequestration in Saline Aquifers"
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Discussion
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNumerical Simulation of Geological CO2 Storage
Discussion Leader: Maša Prodanović (University of Texas)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm George Pau (LBNL)
"High Resolution Simulation and Characterization of Flows Encountered in Geologic CO2 Sequestration"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm Aaron Goater (Imperial College London)
"Convergence of Three-Phase Simulation with Application to CO2 Storage"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm Alireza Iranshahr (Stanford University)
"Multiphase Compositional Space Parameterization for General-Purpose Thermal-Compositional Simulation"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm Morteza Akbarabadi (University of Wyoming)
"The effects of hysteresis and wetting on permanent geologic storage of carbon dioxide: An experimental study of capillary trapping and relative permeability"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amModeling geological CO2 storage
Discussion Leader: Jerome Neufeld (Cambridge University)
9:00 am - 9:20 am Madeleine Golding (Cambridge University)
"Two-phase gravity currents in porous media"
9:20 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am Sarah Gasda (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
"Impact of Geological Complexity on Long-Term CO2 Migration"
9:50 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am Michael Szulczewski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"How Pressure Buildup and CO2 Transport Both Constrain Storage Capacity in Deep Saline Aquifers"
10:20 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pmCapacity, Fate & Security of CO2 Storage
Discussion Leader: Sally Benson (Stanford University)
11:00 am - 11:20 am Chris Green (CSIRO)
"Effect of vertical heterogeneity on long-term migration of carbon dioxide"
11:20 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am Angela Slagle (Columbia University)
"Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Deep-Sea Basalt"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm Carolyn Seto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Reducing Risk in Large Scale CO2 Sequestration Through an Integrated Monitoring Framework"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 3:30 pmPoster Session II
3:30 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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