PREDICTIVE MODELING OF CO2 – BRINE CO-INJECTION CONDITIONS IN RE-INJECTION WELLS

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2019-08-18

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Akın, Taylan
Akın, Serhat
Küçük, Serhat
Saraçoğlu, Önder
Başer, Ali

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Emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 emitted at Turkish geothermal power plants are an obstacle to call geothermal energy as green power. However, recent advances in carbon capture and storage technologies have enabled low emissions by re-injecting produced CO2. The phase of injected CO2 is crucial for the success and safety of the operation. Injecting CO2 directly into a reservoir as pure gas or at supercritical state may cause the leakage of CO2 via fractures, or abandoned wells. This problem can be prevented by the dissolution of CO2 into brine prior to, or during its injection into the reservoir. Various projects have been being conducted around the world to reduce geothermal emissions. Among these projects, GECO (Geothermal Emission Control) is an EU funded project through the Horizon 2020 and aims to develop near-zero emission geothermal power plants. Through the GECO project, Zorlu Energy and METU (Turkey) aim to reduce the CO2 emissions for more green geothermal power production while maintaining the sustainability of Kızıldere (Turkey) geothermal field (KGF).The objective of this study is to calculate possible ranges of CO2 molar ratios to ensure all injected CO2 will dissolve in brine and preclude the gas formation in re-injection wells at KGF. In order to compute partial pressures of dissolved CO2 at elevated temperatures for a given CO2 molar ratio, chemical analysis of injection water was defined as a solution in PHREEQC and various amounts of CO2 were irreversibly added into the solution. Temperature range in geochemical modeling was selected from injection temperature at the well head and static temperature at reservoir level of the boreholes. Pressure profiles of the wells were calculated by assuming hydrostatic condition. The model results showed that the dissolved CO2 in the wellbore should not exceed 0.75 mole per kg water during injection. It was concluded that injection flow rates of both water and gas phases should be arranged with this constraint.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80112
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Goldschmidt, 18 - 23 August 2019,

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Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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T. Akın, S. Akın, S. Küçük, Ö. Saraçoğlu, and A. Başer, “PREDICTIVE MODELING OF CO2 – BRINE CO-INJECTION CONDITIONS IN RE-INJECTION WELLS,” presented at the Goldschmidt, 18 - 23 August 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80112.