『Abstract
Increasing attention is being focused on the rapid rise of CO2 levels in the atmosphere, which many believe
to be the major contributing factor to global climate change.
Sequestering CO2 in deep geological formations
has been proposed as a long-term solution to help stabilize CO2 levels. However, before such technology can
be developed and implemented, a basic understanding of H2O-CO2 systems and the chemical
interactions of these fluids with the host formation must be obtained.
Important issues concerning mineral stability, reaction rates,
and carbonate formation are all controlled or at least significantly
impacted by the kinetics of rock-water reactions in mildly acidic,
CO2-saturated solutions. Basalt has recently
been identified as a potentially important host formation for
geological sequestration. Dissolution kinetics of the Columbia
River Basalt (CRB) were measured for a range of temperatures (25-90℃)
under mildly acidic to neutral pH conditions using the single-pass
flow-through test method. Under anaerobic conditions, the normalized
dissolution rates for CRB decrease with increasing pH (3≦pH≦7)
with a slope, η, of -0.15±0.01. Activation energy, Ea,
has been estimated at 32.0±2.4 kJ mol-1. Dissolution
kinetics measurements like these are essential for modeling the
rate at which CO2-saturated fluids react
with basalt and ultimately drive conversion rates to carbonate
minerals in situ.』
1. Introduction
2. Literature summary
3. Experimental materials and methods
3.1. CRB sample collection chemical composition, and characterization
3.2. CRB preparation and determination of specific surface area
3.3. Buffer solution composition
3.4. Single-pass flow-through method
3.5. Influent and effluent solution analysis
3.6. Quantification of dissolution rates
4. Results
4.1. Achievement of steady-state
4.2. Dissolution kinetics
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References