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Jens T. Birkholzer
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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CO2 Injection Schedule Dominates Induced Rupture and Seismicity in Complex Faults
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
Meng Cao, Jonny Rutqvist, Yves Guglielmi, Abdullah...
Injecting CO2 into deep formations has the potential to reactivate naturally pre-existing faults, resulting in aseismic and seismic slip. In this stud...
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Dynamic Monitoring of Water Content in Bentonite under complex THMC Conditions Using Time-Lapse Electrical Resistivity Tomography
AGU 2024
mineral and rock physics | 13 december 2024
Hang Chen, Chunwei Chou, Luca Peruzzo, Sharon Borg...
Compacted bentonite is widely used as a backfill and sealing material for the long-term deep geological storage of high-level radioactive waste (HLW)....
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Geologic Carbon Storage at Gigatonne Scale: Geomechanical and Regulatory Implications
UNDERGROUND STORAGE OF CARBON AND ENERGY: UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICS AND THE REGULATORY LANDSCAPE II ORAL
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Jens T. Birkholzer, Preston D. Jordan
After decades of research on carbon capture and storage (CCS), the world is finally moving from pilot tests and demonstration experiments to industria...
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Laboratory Bench-Scale Column Tests on Bentonite Buffer for Geologic Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste
THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL-CHEMICAL (THMC) COUPLING IN SUBSURFACE GEOLOGICAL MEDIA: ADVANCES IN COMPUTATION, EXPERIMENTATION, AND SYNCHROTRON CHARACTERIZATION III ORAL
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
Chun Chang, Sharon Borglin, Chunwei Chou, Liange Z...
Compacted bentonite is often considered as a backfill material for engineered barrier systems (EBS) in a geological repository for high-level radioact...
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THMC Modeling of Heating and Hydration of Bentonite in Column Tests
THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL-CHEMICAL (THMC) COUPLING IN SUBSURFACE GEOLOGICAL MEDIA: ADVANCES IN COMPUTATION, EXPERIMENTATION, AND SYNCHROTRON CHARACTERIZATION II POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
Liange Zheng, Chun Chang, Sharon Borglin, Chunwei ...
The bentonite buffer in a geological repository goes through coupled THMC (thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical) processes. Understanding the THMC...
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Poroelastic Effects of Injection on Basin-Scale CO2 Storage Optimization
ACHIEVING NET ZERO EMISSIONS WITH GEOLOGIC CARBON STORAGE AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY I POSTER
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Abdullah Cihan, Stanislav Glubokovskikh, Jens T. B...
Geological CO2 storage necessary to meet the climate goals requires deployment of multiple large CO2 storage projects in sedimentary basins with inter...
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Active‐Source Seismic Imaging of Fault Re‐Activation and Leakage: An Injection Experiment at the Mt Terri Rock Laboratory, Switzerland
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 december 2023
Tanner Shadoan, Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin, Yves Gug...
We conducted a time‐lapse seismic experiment utilizing automated active seismic source and sensor arrays to monitor a reactivated fault withi...
Experimental Study of Coupled THMC Processes in a Heated Bentonite Buffer for Geologic Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste
HYDROMECHANICAL PROCESSES IN ENERGY GEOTECHNICS II POSTER
hydrology | 16 december 2022
Chun Chang, Sharon Borglin, Chunwei Chou, Liange Z...
As a backfill material for engineered barrier systems, bentonite buffer is critical for the security and long-term performance of a geological reposit...
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