Geologists and other earth scientists investigate the degree to which geochemistry can affect the behavior of geologic sequestration systems. They describe a number of ways that chemical reactions between fluids and between fluids and minerals can modify expectations that might be derived from a view in which the physical properties of the fluids and medium were the primary controlling factors. Among the topics are the thermodynamics of carbonates, experimental perspectives of mineral dissolution and precipitation due to carbon dioxide-water-rock interactions, carbon mineralization from natural analogues to engineered systems, geochemical monitoring for potential environmental impacts of geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide, and how capillary pressure and mineral wettability influence a reservoir's carbon dioxide capacity. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry (RiMG) volumes contain concise advances in theoretical and/or applied mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, and geochemistry.
Volume 77 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry focuses on important aspects of the geochemistry of geological CO2 sequestration. It is in large part an outgrowth of research conducted by members of the U.S. Department of Energy funded Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) known as the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 (NCGC). Eight out of the 15 chapters have been led by team members from the NCGC representing six of the eight partner institutions making up this center - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (lead institution, D. DePaolo - PI), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Ohio State University, the University of California Davis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Washington University, St. Louis.
