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In CO2-EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) and storage projects, there is a high risk of CO2 leakage into groundwater, which will not only affect storage effectiveness, but also cause a variety of environmental consequences. A monitoring system of CO2 leakage is essential to the safety of CO2-EOR and storage projects. Previous monitoring systems have been proposed through theoretical analysis, field test and indoor experiment. In this study, a modeling approach based on simulation of CO2 migration coupled with water-rock interactions in groundwater is proposed to support monitoring system development for CO2-EOR and storage projects. The simulation is undertaken using TOUGHREACT and applied to a case study in the Ordos Basin in China. The case study results indicate that the developed monitoring system has the advantage of offering a precise, timely and comprehensive monitoring scheme based on the dynamics of CO2 leakage and its effects on groundwater composition.
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This work was supported by Department of Science and Technology of SINOPEC Group through the project ‘Study on CO2 Storage Mechanisms and Potentials Evaluation Methods in Oil-Gas Zone’ (P21075-1), and by National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB0605504). We would like to thank Professor Huang Yuefei from Qinghai University for correcting the grammar in our manuscript.
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Li, L., Wu, Y., Lin, Q. et al. A monitoring system for CO2-EOR and storage based on reactive transport simulation of CO2 migration in groundwater. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 20, 8359–8372 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-04508-x
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