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Carbon Storage News & Publications

News

October 19, 2022
Converting Carbon Dioxide to Minerals Underground
August 15, 2022
An Update to Award-Winning Carbon Storage Sensor Software
June 27, 2022
Capturing, Utilizing, and Storing Carbon with Solvents: Outlining a Path Forward
November 22, 2021
1st-of-a-Kind Project May Lead to Global Greenhouse Solutions
July 12, 2021
Bacon Joins Greenhouse Gas Control Editorial Board
February 1, 2017
PFLOTRAN-E4D: A parallel open source PFLOTRAN module for simulating time-lapse electrical resistivity data
January 15, 2020
PNNL Fracturing Fluid: Cost-effective Option for Geothermal Energy
November 13, 2019
Where Liquid Meets Air: Unearthing How Air Pollutants Form
February 6, 2019
Tracking Injected Fluids: A Seismic Contrast Agent Breakthrough
November 4, 2016
PNNL Wins 2 R&D 100 Awards for Underground Cleanup, Carbon Capture

Publications

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Journal Article

Molecular-Scale Mechanisms of CO2 Mineralization in Nanoscale Interfacial Water Films

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JULY 22, 2019
Conference Paper

Geophysical Monitoring with Seismic Metamaterial Contrast Agents

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JUNE 18, 2019
Journal Article

Anomalously low activation energy of nanoconfined MgCO3 precipitation

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JUNE 20, 2019
Journal Article

Chemical Trapping of CO2 by Clay Minerals at Reservoir Conditions: Two Mechanisms Observed by In Situ High Pressure and Temperature Experiments

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AUGUST 13, 2019
Journal Article

Quantitative Review of Olivine Carbonation Kinetics: Reactivity Trends, Mechanistic Insights, and Research Frontiers

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MAY 23, 2019
Journal Article

Surface-Catalyzed Oxygen Exchange during Mineral Carbonation in Nanoscale Water Films

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Book Chapter

Experimental studies of reactivity and transformations of rocks and minerals in water-bearing supercritical CO2

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DECEMBER 26, 2018
Journal Article

Microporous and Flexible Framework Acoustic Metamaterials for Sound Attenuation and Contrast Agent Applications

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Journal Article

Water Structure Controls Carbonic Acid Formation in Adsorbed Water Films

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MARCH 1, 2018
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Clay Swelling in Dry Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: Effects of Interlayer Cations on the Structure, Dynamics, and Energetics of CO2 Intercalation Probed by XRD, NMR, and GCMD Simulations

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Journal Article

CO2 Mineral Sequestration in Naturally Porous Basalt

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JULY 19, 2018
Journal Article

Interaction of Hydrocarbons with Clays under Reservoir Conditions: In Situ Infrared and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction for Expandable Clays with Variably Wet Supercritical Methane

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Journal Article

Water Structure Controls Carbonic Acid Formation in Adsorbed Water Films

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JANUARY 10, 2017
Journal Article

Field Validation of Supercritical CO2 Reactivity with Basalts

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OCTOBER 25, 2017
Journal Article

Tipping Point for Expansion of Layered Aluminosilicates in Weakly Polar Solvents: Supercritical CO2

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JULY 3, 2017
Journal Article

Wallula Basalt Pilot Demonstration Project: Post-Injection Results and Conclusions

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JANUARY 12, 2017
Journal Article

Role of Cations in CO2 Adsorption, Dynamics, and Hydration in Smectite Clays Under in situ Supercritical CO2 Conditions

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Journal Article

CO2 Storage by Sorption on Organic Matter and Clay in Gas Shale

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JULY 15, 2015
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Competitive Sorption of CO2 and H2O in 2:1 Layer Phyllosilicates

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JUNE 16, 2015
Journal Article

Evidence for Carbonate Surface Complexation during Forsterite Carbonation in Wet Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

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APRIL 7, 2015
Journal Article

Impacts of Organic Ligands on Forsterite Reactivity in Supercritical CO2 Fluids

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DECEMBER 1, 2014
Journal Article

Anomalous porosity preservation and preferential accumulation of gas hydrate in the Andaman accretionary wedge, NGHP-01 site 17A

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014
Journal Article

Surface Condensation of CO2 onto Kaolinite

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MAY 1, 2014
Journal Article

Mineralization of Basalts in the CO2-H2O-SO2-O2 System

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JULY 1, 2013
Journal Article

Insights into Silicate Carbonation Processes in Water-Bearing Supercritical CO2 Fluids

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JANUARY 25, 2013
Journal Article

Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Investigation of Water in Supercritical CO2 and the Effect of CaCl2

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AUGUST 1, 2013
Journal Article

Mineralization of Basalts in the CO2-H2O-H2S System

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AUGUST 5, 2013
Journal Article

Clay hydration/dehydration in dry to water-saturated supercritical CO2: Implications for caprock integrity

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2012
Journal Article

Molecular interactions of SO2 with carbonate minerals under co-sequestration conditions: a combined experimental and theoretical study

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APRIL 3, 2012
Journal Article

In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Study of Na+ Saturated Montmorillonite Exposed to Variably Wet Super Critical CO2

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APRIL 25, 2012
Journal Article

In Situ Molecular Spectroscopic Evidence for CO2 Intercalation into Montmorillonite in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

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AUGUST 1, 2012
Journal Article

Reaction of Water-Saturated Supercritical CO2 with Forsterite: Evidence for Magnesite Formation at Low Temperatures

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APRIL 25, 2012
Journal Article

In Situ Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Brucite Carbonation in Dry to Water-Saturated Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

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JULY 19, 2011
Journal Article

In Situ Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Forsterite Carbonation in Wet Supercritical CO2

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APRIL 1, 2011
Journal Article

Basalt Reactivity Variability with Reservoir Depth in Supercritical CO2 and Aqueous Phases

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APRIL 1, 2011
Journal Article

Multiphase Sequestration Geochemistry: Model for Mineral Carbonation

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Journal Article

Water Reactivity in the Liquid and Supercritical CO2 Phase: Has Half the Story Been Neglected?

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  • Miller, QRS*, JP Kaszuba, HT Schaef, SN Kerisit, ME Bowden, BP McGrail, KM Rosso. 2020. "Emerging Investigator Series: Ion Diffusivities in Nanoconfined Interfacial Water Films Contribute to Mineral Carbonation Thresholds." Environmental Science: Nano, 2020, 7, 1068. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9EN01382B
  • Bowers, GM, HT Schaef, QRS Miller, ED Walter, SD Burton, DW Hoyt, and JA Horner, et al. 2019. "C13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Methane and Carbon Dioxide in a Natural Shale." ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 3, no. 3:324–328.
  • Qafoku, O, ES Ilton, ME Bowden, L Kovarik, X Zhang, RK Kukkadapu, and MH Engelhard, CJ Thompson, H.T. Schaef et. al., 2018. "Synthesis of Nanometer-Sized Fayalite and Magnesium-Iron(II) Mixture Olivines." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 515.
  • Miller, QRS, HT Schaef, J Kaszuba, L Qiu, ME Bowden, BP McGrail, and QRS Miller. 2018. "Tunable manipulation of mineral carbonation kinetics in nanoscale water films via citrate additives." ES&T 52, no. 12:7138-7148.
  • Loring, JS, DH Bacon, RD Springer, A Anderko, S Gopinath, CM Yonkfonski, CJ Thompson, BP McGrail, KM Rosso, and HT Schaef. 2017. "Water Solubility at Saturation for CO2-CH4 Mixtures at 50 °C and 90 bar." Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 62, (5), 1608-1614.
  • Schaef, HT, SK Nune, CE Strickland, KW Jung, PF Martin, JS Loring, BP McGrail. 2016. "Injectable Contrast Agents for Enhanced Subsurface Mapping and Monitoring." Energy Procedia 114 (2017) 3764–3770.
  • Bacon, DH, CM Ruprecht, HT Schaef, MD White, BP McGrail. 2015. “CO2 Storage by Adsorption on Organic Matter and Clay in Gas Shale.” Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources, V12, pages 123-133.
  • Qafoku, O, DA Dixon, KM Rosso, HT Schaef, ME Bowden, BW Arey and AR Felmy. 2015. "Dynamics of Magnesite Formation at Low Temperature and High pCO2 in Aqueous Solution." ES&T, 49(17): 10736-10744.
  • Loring, JS, ES Ilton, J Chen, CJ Thompson, PF Martin, P Bénézeth, KM Rosso, AR Felmy, and HT Schaef. 2014. "In Situ Study of CO2 and H2O Partitioning between Na–Montmorillonite and Variably Wet Supercritical Carbon Dioxide." Langmuir, 30(21): 6120-6128.
  • Schaef, HT, QRS Miller, CJ Thompson, JS Loring, MS Bowden, BW Arey, BP McGrail, KM Rosso. 2013. “Silicate Carbonation in Supercritical CO2 Containing Dissolved H2O: an in situ High Pressure X-Ray Diffraction and Infrared Spectroscopy Study.” Energy Procedia, Vol 37, 5892-5896.
  • Rother, G, ES Ilton, D Wallacher, T Hauss, HT Schaef, O Qafoku, KM Rosso, AR Felmy, EG Krukowski, AG Stack, et al. 2013. "CO2 Adsorption to Sub-Single Hydration Layer Montmorillonite Clay Studied by Excess Sorption and Neutron Diffraction." ES&T, 47 (1) pp. 205-211.
  • Windisch, CF, Jr, HT Schaef, PF Martin, AT Owen, and BP McGrail. 2012. "Following O-18 uptake in scCO2-H2O mixtures with Raman spectroscopy." Spectrochimica Acta Part a-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 94: 186-191.
  • Schaef, HT, CF Windisch, Jr., BP McGrail, PF Martin, and KM Rosso. 2011. "Brucite Mg(OH)2carbonation in wet supercritical CO2: An in situ high pressure X-ray diffraction study." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75(23).
  • Windisch, CF Jr; V Glezakou, P Martin, BP McGrail, and HT Schaef, 2011. “Transposition of the Fermi Dyad in CO2 by Labeled Oxygens.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, (submitted July, 2011).
  • Schaef, HT, ES Ilton, OQafoku, PF Martin, AR Felmy, and KM Rosso, 2011. “In situ XRD Study of Ca2+ Saturated Montmorillonite (STX-1) Exposed to Anhydrous scCO2.” International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, submitted (submitted June, 2011).

Contacts

Casie Davidson
Manager, Carbon Management and Fossil Energy Market Sector
casie.davidson@pnnl.gov
509-372-6259
Todd Schaef
Subsector Manager, Subsurface Energy Systems
todd.schaef@pnnl.gov
509-371-7102
Melissa Perdue
Senior Communications Advisor
melissa.perdue@pnnl.gov
(509) 371-6199

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