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Title (Primary) Linking different disciplines in a hierarchical approach to identify CO2 degassing zones
Title (Secondary) Near Surface Geoscience 2012 – 18th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Paris, France, 3-5 September 2012
Author Sauer, U.; Schütze, C.; Schlömer, S.; Leven, C.; Dietrich, P. ORCID logo
Year 2012
Department MET
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Language englisch
Abstract The project MONACO aims to develop monitoring technologies for geological carbon dioxide storage,
especially for identifying CO2 migration paths and leakages from the shallow subsurface into the
atmosphere. Reliable monitoring of geological CO2 storage sites during and after the operational phase
requires appropriate methods that provide the requisite information in real time. Within the frame of this
project, an integrative hierarchic monitoring concept is proposed, with the aim of reliably detecting and
assessing possible leakages from storage formations into the shallow subsurface (including aquifers and
unsaturated zones, plus degassing of CO2 into the atmosphere). As part of this concept, several methods
will be either combined or used complementary to one another and used at different scales, such as openpath
Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (OP-FTIR), soil-gas analytics, geophysics and Direct-Push
technology. This hierarchic approach is tested at a natural analogue site and first measurements indicate
that this monitoring approach represents a multidisciplinary modular concept working in different scales
and resolutions.
Persistent UFZ Identifier https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=12904
Sauer, U., Schütze, C., Schlömer, S., Leven, C., Dietrich, P. (2012):
Linking different disciplines in a hierarchical approach to identify CO2 degassing zones
Near Surface Geoscience 2012 – 18th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Paris, France, 3-5 September 2012
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