Mobilisation of organic compounds from reservoir rocks through the injection of CO2 —Comparison of baseline characterization and laboratory experiments

Autor: A.-K. Scherf, C. Zetzl, I. Smirnova, M. Zettlitzer, Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand, CO2SINK-Group
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Energy Procedia
ISSN: 1876-6102
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.409
Popis: In the framework of CO 2 storage activities, the aim of our investigations is mainly to evaluate the effects of supercritical CO 2 (sc CO 2 ) on the quantitative and qualitative extraction of organic compounds from reservoir rocks. Within the scope of the CO 2 storage project CO 2 SINK the major task was to identify key mechanisms occurring in the reservoir as a result of the injection of CO 2 into a saline aquifer. Here, it is of special interest what types and amounts of organic matter will be extracted and mobilized from the reservoir rocks in conjunction with the injection of sc CO 2 . Thus, our investigations may help to evaluate the efficiency and reliability of the long-term storage of CO 2 in such a geological system. Here, we present compound-specific results from laboratory sc CO 2 -extraction experiments on reservoir rock samples from the CO 2 storage site in Ketzin, Germany. Low molecular weight organic acids (LMWOA) as well as polar lipid fatty acids (PLFA) extracted by sc CO 2 were analysed using ion chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, respectively. Through the exposure to sc CO 2 mainly formate and acetate, but also other LMWOA were released from the rock samples in varying amounts. PLFA profiles of sc CO 2 extracts were dominated by saturated and unsaturated fatty acids with 16 and 18 carbon atoms of bacterial origin. The results of sc CO 2 extraction are compared with the characterization of the organic inventory of pristine rock samples and fluid samples from observation wells of the Ketzin site to obtain information on quantitative and qualitative significance of the solvent potential of sc CO 2 .
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