We are proud to invite you to the Skoltech Colloquium!
When: February 20; 4:00pm
Where: Institute of Gene Biology RAS, Vavilova street 34/5, Conference room, 1st floor.
What: Fluid modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration.
Speaker: Professor Herbert E Huppert, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge & Faculty of Science, Bristol University.
Herbert Huppert was born and received his early education in Sydney, Australia. He graduated in Applied Mathematics from Sydney University with first class Honours and the University medal in 1964. He then completed a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, and came as an ICI Post-doctoral Fellow to the University of Cambridge in 1968 for what was meant to be a one-year sojourn. He has not yet left! He has published widely using fluid-mechanical principles in applications to the Earth sciences: in meteorology, oceanography and geology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987. In 2005 he was the only non-American recipient of a prize from the US National Academy, being awarded the Arthur L. Day Prize Lectureship for contributions to the Earth sciences. He has been elected a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and the American Physical Society. He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2007 and gave the Bakerian Prize Lecture of The Royal Society in 2011 entitled ‘Carbon storage: caught between a rock and climate change.
Abstract: Current global anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are approximately 32 Gigatonnes annually. The influence of this green-house gas on climate has raised concern. A means of reducing environmental damage is to store carbon dioxide somewhere until well past the end of the fossil fuel era. Storage by injection of liquid, or supercritical, carbon dioxide into porous reservoir rocks, such as depleted oil and gas fields and regional saline aquifers, is being considered. The presentation will discuss the rate and form of propagation to be expected and quantify some of the risks involved. The talk builds on theoretical and experimental investigations of input of liquid of one viscosity and density from a point source above an impermeable boundary, either horizontal or slanted, into a heterogeneous porous medium saturated with liquid of different viscosity and density. In the Sleipner natural gas field, carbon dioxide has been injected at a rate of ~ 1 Mt/yr since 1996. We will briefly show how to apply our results to interpret these field observations. One of the best controlled field experiments, the Otway Project, commenced on 2 April 2008 in Victoria, Australia. Approximately sixty thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide was injected into a slanted sill over a period of just over a year. We will show how accurately some of our theoretical models predict the field data obtained so far. The talk will be illustrated by colour movie sequences of laboratory experiments and some simple desk-top demonstrations of aspects of flow of multi-phase fluids into a porous ambient.
Transfers:
Shuttle bus Hypercube – Institute of Gene Biology RAS at 3 pm
Shuttle bus MSM (Karacorum) – Institute of Gene Biology RAS at 3:10 pm
How to get to Institute of Gene Biology RAS:
Address: Vavilova street 34/5 (ул. Вавилова 34/5)
Map: http://www.genebiology.ru/institute/way.shtml
If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova
We look forward to seeing you.
