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Anomalous fluid properties of carbon dioxide in the supercritical region: application to geological CO2 storage and related hazards

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For supercritical fluids there is a wedge-shaped region called Widom region, where several physico-chemical quantities (e.g. compressibility, heat capacities, density, thermal expansivity, speed of sound) show anomalous behaviour. In this paper, several Widom lines of supercritical CO2 have been computed with the Wagner–Span reference equation of state. The locations of the Widom lines are compared with the P–T range of the Snøhvit, Sleipner, Nagaoka and Ketzin reservoirs, which are recently studied for their fitness for CO2 sequestration, and two natural CO2 storage analogues, Montmiral in France and Mihályi-Répcelak in Hungary. The potential consequences of leaking CO2 crossing any of the Widom lines are discussed.

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Acknowledgments

A. R. Imre gratefully acknowledges an “Albert’s reunion Grant” from the University of Cologne and an invitation as a guest professor at the University of Orléans for 2 months. This work could not have been completed without the support of these two Universities.

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  1. Thermohydraulics Department, MTA Centre for Energy Research, P.O. Box 49, Budapest, 1525, Hungary

    A. R. Imre

  2. Université d’Orleans, ISTO, UMR 7327, 45071, Orléans, France

    A. R. Imre & C. Ramboz

  3. University Cologne, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Luxemburger Str. 116, 50939, Cologne, Germany

    A. R. Imre, U. K. Deiters & T. Kraska

  4. CNRS, ISTO, UMR 7327, 45071, Orléans, France

    C. Ramboz

  5. BRGM, ISTO, UMR 7327, BP 36009, 45060, Orléans, France

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Imre, A.R., Ramboz, C., Deiters, U.K. et al. Anomalous fluid properties of carbon dioxide in the supercritical region: application to geological CO2 storage and related hazards. Environ Earth Sci 73, 4373–4384 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-3716-5

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