Utilizing Temperature and Brine Inflow Measurements to Constrain Reservoir Parameters During a Salt Heater Test
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Minerals 2020, 10(11), 1025; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10111025
Received: 27 October 2020
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Revised: 13 November 2020
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Accepted: 15 November 2020
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Published: 18 November 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Hydro-Mechanics of Crystalline Rocks)
Brine availability in salt has multiple implications for the safety and design of a nuclear waste storage facility. Brine availability includes both the distribution and transport of brine through a damaged zone around boreholes or drifts excavated into the salt. Coupled thermal, hydrological, mechanical, and chemical processes taking place within heated bedded salt are complex; as part of DECOVALEX 2023 Task E this study takes a parsimonious modeling approach utilizing analytical and numerical one-dimensional simulations to match field measurements of temperature and brine inflow around a heater. The one-dimensional modeling results presented arrive at best-fit thermal conductivity of intact salt, and the permeability and porosity of damaged salt of 5.74
Keywords:
hydrogeology; numerical modeling; brine flow; salt heater test
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Jayne RS, Kuhlman KL. Utilizing Temperature and Brine Inflow Measurements to Constrain Reservoir Parameters During a Salt Heater Test. Minerals. 2020; 10(11):1025. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10111025
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