Environmental Geochemistry: Precipitation and Dissolution in Porous Media
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H1: Petroleum Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2022) | Viewed by 6050
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Interests: reactive transport modelling, nucleation; precipitation and dissolution in porous media; crystallization in confinement, radionuclide uptake and retention, solid solution
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Dear Colleagues,
Mineral dissolution and precipitation in porous media are relevant processes that occur in the subsurface, e.g., during oil and gas production, ore mining, geothermal energy extraction, CO2 sequestration, or geological disposal of nuclear waste. These processes affect the hydraulic and mechanical properties of the rock matrix. A deep insight into transport-induced mineral precipitation and dissolution is a first step to further improve existing conceptual and numerical reactive transport models and to predict the fate of contaminants in the subsurface.
This Special Issue aims to bring together corresponding studies from all these areas. We welcome research and review studies on:
- Experimental or theoretical work addressing mineral precipitation and dissolution in porous media
- Reactive transport modelling addressing mineral precipitation and dissolution in porous media
- Crystallization processes in fully or partially saturated porous media
- Effects of mineral precipitation and dissolution on transport and mechanical properties of rocks in the subsurface
- Imaging techniques for monitoring dissolution and precipitation processes in porous media
- Environmental aspects, e.g., scale formation and incorporation of foreign ions, soil remediation, and weathering processes
- Engineered systems, e.g., mineral dissolution and precipitation processes at interfaces of rocks and engineered structures with different chemical properties
Dr. Jenna Poonoosamy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Reactive transport modelling
- Evolving porous media imaging
- Porosity clogging
- Thermal-hydraulical-mechanical and chemical coupled processes
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