Advances in Mineral-Based Carbon Capture and Storage
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 1885
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clay minerals; shale characterization; sedimentary provenance and paleoclimate proxies; diagenesis and geochronology in sedimentary basins; clay interaction with natural and anthropic fluids; carbon dioxide capture and geological storage
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) remains a cornerstone strategy in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and limiting global temperature rise. This Special Issue focuses on the critical role of minerals in both the capture and long-term storage of CO2, particularly from major industrial sources such as cement, steel, refining, and chemical production. On the capture side, porous solid materials like zeolites, hydrotalcites, and natural or modified clays are being explored for selective CO2 adsorption, influencing the efficiency and viability of industrial-scale deployment. In storage, mineral interactions with CO2, whether dissolved in brine or in the supercritical phase, are central to the permanence and safety of geological sequestration. Key processes include carbonation reactions with carbonates (e.g., calcite, dolomite), mafic and felsic silicates (e.g., olivine, pyroxene, feldspars), and clay minerals (e.g., serpentine, smectite), as well as competitive interactions involving organic matter and methane. Topics such as mineral dissolution/precipitation kinetics, brine–CO2–rock chemistry, and the scalability of lab experiments to reservoir conditions are also essential to advancing CCS technologies. We invite contributions that address these challenges and innovations, including experimental, theoretical, and field-based studies, as well as reviews and case reports.
Dr. Lucy Gomes Sant'Anna
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solid-based CO2 capture
- Ca-, Mg-, Fe-, and K-minerals
- clay minerals
- sulfide
- carbonation process
- geochemical reactions and modeling
- mineral dissolution and precipitation
- mafic and ultramafic rocks
- depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs
- deep saline aquifers
- unmineable coal seams
- carbonate rocks
- heterogeneity
- reactive transport
- multiphase flow
- residual trapping
- laboratory experiments
- wettability
- batch and flow-through experiments
- porosity and permeability
- numerical simulation
- CO2 injection strategies
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