EBI – Call for Preproposals, Deadline 5/31/13
The 2013 call from the Energy Bioscience Institute (EBI) has been posted on EBI's website (http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org). The deadline for preproposals is May 31, 2013.
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A Wealth of Earth Day-Week Activities
LBNL Deputy Director Horst Simon, in a message to the Lab, announces a wealth of Lab activities related to Earth Day and Earth Week, and invites all Lab employees to learn how they can make a positive impact.
Read MoreCO2 Storage Plumes and Fault Encounters
The large storage volume needed for geologic carbon storage to be effective requires injection into pore space saturated with saline water in reservoir strata overlain by cap rock.
Read MoreSupercritical CO2 Flow Through Layered Silica/Calcite Sand
ESD ‘s Tim Kneafsey, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, and former ESD scientist Dmitriy Silin recently conducted a core-scale experiment.
Read MoreDynamic Displacement/ Dissolution of Supercritical CO2
A team of scientists (including ESD’s Quanlin Zhou) recently developed an experimental setup for conducting core-flood experiments of supercritical CO2 and water under pressures higher than 8.00 MPa and a temperature of 40°C.
Read MoreWorker Safety in The Carbon Capture/Storage Industry
In a recently published paper, ESD’s Preston Jordan (and former ESD head Sally Benson) project worker safety likelihood for a mature carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry, using government and private analog industry data.
Read MoreOn modeling the potential impacts of CO2 sequestration on shallow groundwater: Transport of organics and co-injected H2S by supercritical CO2 to shallow aquifers
Proper site selection for CO2 geologic storage requires assessing the impact of potential leakage of CO2 from deep subsurface reservoirs to overlying drinking water aquifers
Read MoreDissolution kinetics and mechanisms at dolomite-water interfaces: Effects of electrolyte-specific ionic strength
Elucidating dissolution kinetics and mechanisms at carbonate mineral–water interfaces is essential to many environmental and geochemical processes, including geologic CO2 sequestration in deep aquifers.
Read MoreLaboratory seismic monitoring of supercritical CO2 flooding in sandstone cores using the Split Hopkinson Resonant Bar technique with concurrent x-ray CT imaging
ESD’s Seiji Nakagawa led a team of investigators (including ESD’s Tim Kneafsey, Tom Daley, and Barry Freifeld) in conducting laboratory measurements of the seismic properties of sandstones during supercritical CO2 injection.
Read MoreCall for Proposals for FY2014 LDRDs
Director Alivisatos recently issued the call for proposals for the FY2014 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program. All scientific staff from our Division are encouraged to think of potential innovative proposal topics.
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