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Accessing effects and signals of leakage from a CO2 reservoir to a shallow freshwater aquifer by reactive transport modelling

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CO2 geological storage is a transitional technology for the mitigation of climate change. In the vicinity of potential CO2 reservoirs in Hungary, protected freshwater aquifers used for drinking water supplies exist. Effects of disaster events of CO2 escape and brine displacement to one of these aquifers have been studied by kinetic 1D reactive transport modelling in PHREEQC. Besides verifying that ion concentrations in the freshwater may increase up to drinking water limit values in both scenarios (CO2 or brine leakage), total porosity of the rock is estimated. Pore volume is expected to increase at the entry point of CO2 and to decrease at further distances, whereas it shows minor increase along the flow path for the effect of brine inflow. Additionally, electrical conductivity of water is estimated and suggested to be the best parameter to measure for cost-effective monitoring of both worst-case leakage scenarios.

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The research was supported by the OTKA program of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (K 115927 for Gy. Falus). The authors thank the contribution of Péter Kónya for XRD measurements.

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    Zsuzsanna Szabó, Nóra Edit Gál, Éva Kun, Teodóra Szőcs & György Falus

  2. MTA Premium Postdoctorate Research Program, Office of Funded Research Groups, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Nádor u. 7, Budapest, 1051, Hungary

    Zsuzsanna Szabó

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Szabó, Z., Gál, N.E., Kun, É. et al. Accessing effects and signals of leakage from a CO2 reservoir to a shallow freshwater aquifer by reactive transport modelling. Environ Earth Sci 77, 460 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7637-6

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