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Jens T. Birkholzer
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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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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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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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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The quantitative studies of time-lapse electrical resistivity data for characterizing coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical processes in bentonite
NEAR-SURFACE GEOPHYSICS FOR CHARACTERIZING AND MONITORING NATURAL HAZARDS III ORAL
near surface geophysics | 16 december 2022
Hang Chen, Chunwei Chou, Sharon Borglin, Chun Chan...
Bentonite has been considered as a backfill and sealing material for long-term deep geological storage of high-level radioactive waste (HLW). Heat-ema...
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Fault Activation and Leakage in Caprocks: From Novel Field Experiments to Large-Scale Geomechanical Assessments
GEOLOGIC CARBON STORAGE I ORAL
union sessions | 15 december 2022
Jens T. Birkholzer, Jonny Rutqvist, Yves Guglielmi
We have conducted a series of tens-of-meter scale injection experiments of fault activation in shales at the Mont Terri underground research laborator...
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