Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.02.008 |
| Title (Primary) | Characteristic length measurement of a subsurface gas anomaly—A monitoring approach for heterogeneous flow path distributions |
| Author | Lazik, D.; Ebert, S.; Neumann, P.P.; Bartholmai, M. |
| Source Titel | International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control |
| Year | 2016 |
| Department | BOPHY |
| Volume | 47 |
| Page From | 330 |
| Page To | 341 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | Monitoring; CO2; Carbon capture and storage; Leakage; Quantification; Subsurface |
| UFZ wide themes | RU1 |
| Abstract | Geogenic gases from natural sources, carbon dioxide (CO2) from a geological repository (carbon captureand storage—CCS) or a leaking gas pipeline can present serious risks in industrial and urban areas. Toextend the lead time for risk treatment in such critical regions, reliable detection of gases within theshallow subsurface is required to observe critical gas accumulations before degassing into the atmo-sphere. A near real-time monitoring approach is introduced to determine the volumetric expansion of a leakinggas in the subsurface. Considering the pressure relaxation with the ambient air pressure, the approachenables the forecasting of the final size of a pressurized gas body in terms of characteristic lengths. According to theoretical basics, such a characteristic length, which enables us to perform a gas (safety)measurement based on a purely geometrical measure, behaves independently of subsurface properties, i.e., it enables a reliable quantification of the escaping gas irrespective of its heterogeneous or changingflow path distribution. A field test for a 10 l/min pinhole leakage injected into a 10 m long, 0.4 m wide,0.95 m deep soil-filled trench that was equipped with linear sensors shows the lateral-vertical volumet-ric gas expansion along these sensors, and demonstrates the applicability of the characteristic length approach. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=17162 |
| Lazik, D., Ebert, S., Neumann, P.P., Bartholmai, M. (2016): Characteristic length measurement of a subsurface gas anomaly—A monitoring approach for heterogeneous flow path distributions Int. J. Greenh. Gas Control 47 , 330 - 341 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.02.008 |
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