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| Url | https://cimne.com/sgp/rtd/Project.aspx?id=939 | ||
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| Acronym | SECCO2 | ||
| Project title | Software libre para la digitalización del proceso de secuestro de CO2 | ||
| Reference | TED2021-130510A-I00 | ||
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Ignasi DE POUPLANA SARDÀ - ipouplana@cimne.upc.edu
Guillermo CASAS GONZALEZ - gcasas@cimne.upc.edu |
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| Start date | 01/12/2022 | End date | 30/11/2024 |
| Coordinator | CIMNE | ||
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| Program | P.E. para Impulsar la Investigación Científico-Técnica y su Transferencia | Call | Proyectos Estratégicos Orientados a la Transición Ecológica y a la Transición Digital» 2021 |
| Subprogram | Subprograma Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento | Category | Nacional |
| Funding body(ies) | MICINN | Grant | $135,354.99 |
| Abstract | Carbon capture and storage techniques (CCS) are urgently needed if we aim at meeting the climate change targets set by the Paris Agreement reached at the 21st Conference of the Parties. This project will develop and validate a numerical simulation software designed to assist decision-making engineers during the CO2 storage in saline aquifers. The main objective of such a tool is to quantify the maximum CO2 injection rate and volume that guarantees its permanent storage. In order to do so, the numerical tool will accurately model the hydraulic fracturing taking place during any CO2 storage procedure. It will solve the equations of solid mechanics and fracture mechanics coupled with Darcys generalized equation for fluid flow in porous media. Although several numerical tools are already available, most of them are way too simple to properly capture all the physical processes taking place during CO2 injection in saline aquifers. Other numerical methodologies, found in the recent literature, allow to handle all the complexity of the problem. However, they are so expensive in terms of computational cost that its industrial application is not feasible. The numerical tool developed in this project will answer the key questions on CO2 injection processes with the minimum computational cost possible. The software will have a clean and clear graphical user interface (GUI), and the computing core will be open-source in order to facilitate its dissemination through the industry, scientific community and society. | ||
| Proyecto TED2021-130510A-I00 de investigación financiado por MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 y por la Unión Europea NextGenerationEU/ PRTR | |||