- EWRE
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EWRE – Environmental & Water
Resources Engineering Ltd.
Person in charge: Dr. Jacob Bensabat
Profile:
EWRE is a consulting R&D oriented company based in Haifa, Israel. It has
been established in 1992 and since then has been operating continuously.
Provides services in Water Resources management, pollution control, risk
assessment, environmental remediation planning and execution (including
LNAPL and DNAPL pollution), seawater intrusion, transport phenomena in
porous media, water related problems in civil engineering (tunneling,
construction of deep structures etc.). Since 2009, EWRE operates also the field
of CO2 storage (partner of EU–FP7 MUSTANG and coordinator of EU–FP7
PANACEA).
Relevant Expertise:
Solution of flow and transport problems, density dependent flow and transport
and implementation to large scale regional problems, energy storage in
aquifers, risk assessment, design and implementation of Decision support
systems, hydro–informatics, heat and mass transfer. Coupled processes,
establishment of large environmental databases, software development,
including modules for the development of Decision Support systems. Planning
and design of hydro–geological and environmental field work.
EWRE is involved in many projects in Israel, working for ministries
(Infrastructure, Environment Protection, Energy and Science), public
companies (NTA – the subway company of Tel–Aviv, the planning department
of the Israel Electric Company, the Israel Railways Corporation, Oil storage and
distribution companies) and private companies. In Europe, EWRE operates
through bilateral cooperation with companies in Greece, EU funded projects
(FP5 project Chrystechsalin and FP6 project GABARDINE), FP7–MUSTANG, FP7–
PANACEA (coordinator) and projects on Integrated water resources
management (IWRM) funded by the German ministry of Science, BMBF
(Marsaba – Phase I and II, SMART – phase I and phase II).
Contribution:
EWRE will undertake the coordination of the project and contribute to many of
the work–packages. More specifically, design, planning and coordination of the
field activities at Heletz, Large scale modeling, injection strategies, Risk
management, dissemination (responsible for the preparation of the project
website, see www.panacea–co2.org for example).
Key Personnel:
Jacob Bensabat:
Ph.D., computational modelling and DSS design, Water resources
management and pollution control. Ph.D. 1986, From the Technion Israel Institute of
Technology, Post–doc, MIT, 1988–1990. Since then worked on many R&D projects,
including, heat and mass transfer processes in soils, storage of energy in deep
formations and disposal of hazardous waste in deep geological formations. Lately he
has been associated to a feasibility study on the production of saline water from deep
geological formations for desalination in areas that are distant from the sea.
Sagi Dror: B.Sc. Electrical engineering and in Architecture from the
Technion – IIT. Expert programmer of user interfaces and pre and post
processing software.
Chen Shapira: B.Sc. Physics, parallel computations, already
active in PANACEA.
Myra Kitron–Belinkov: PH.D. Applied
mathematics.
Rebecca Angel: Project management.
- UU
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UU – Uppsala University
Person in charge:
Professor Auli Niemi
Profile:
Department of Earth Sciences
Department of Earth Sciences comprises research from geology and geophysics to
hydrology http://www.geo.uu.se
, being one of the largest Earth Sciences
Departments in Scandinavia. Geological storage of CO2 is a major overlapping research
areas of the department, comprising activities from the different disciplines, e.g.
receiving ‘excellence research´ funding from the National Research Council. The project
will be mainly placed within the Program of Air, Water and Landscape Sciences (LUVAL)
and partly, for the part of seismic monitoring, within the program of Geophysics. The
contact person was previously head of the LUVAL program, but resigned in order to
coordinate the ongoing large scale integrating EU FP7 project MUSTANG
(www.co2mustang.eu) for CO2 geological storage
in saline formations (2009–2013).
The external funding to Earth Sciences Programs comes e.g. from National Research
Councils (VR, FORMAS), EU (CO2SINK, MUSTANG, PANACEA, CO2CARE etc), national
sector foundations as well as from private sector. The facilities and equipment comprise
a hydrological laboratory, chemistry laboratory, laboratory facilities to observe CO2
behavior (two–phase flow, dissolution etc) in heterogeneous in analogue systems,
significant geophysical instrumentation (including 60 permanent seismological stations,
a 312 channel reflection seismic instrument (408UL), about 15 portable 3comp
seismometers and a number of electromagnetic instruments., a computer network, and
extensive modeling software. Most significantly, the group is in collaboration with EWRE
(another partner in this proposal) installing major monitoring equipment into the deep
injection/monitoring wells of the Heletz experiment, which equipment is owned by UU.
Relevant Expertise:
Subsurface hydrology, groundwater modeling, site characterization, multiphase flow,
coupled processes, geophysics, seismic monitoring, heterogeneity and up–scaling,
probabilistic modeling, coupled processes investigation of deep disposal of liquid waste,
including CO2. Thermo–hydro–mechanical coupling of CO2 storage as well as natural
analogue studies. Deep involvement in CO2 storage work, e.g. coordination of
MUSTANG (www.co2mustang.eu).
Contribution:
The group will be responsible
(i) parts of modeling and model development (Includign WP
leader), in particular the multiphase–multicomponent, coupled
processes and upscaling aspects and (ii) development of
improved seismic monitoring. As coordinator of MUSTANG the
partner will be important link to this project
Key Personnel:
Prof. Auli
Niemi is Professor in Groundwater Modeling and
is heading the geohydrology research at UU, Dept Earth
Sciences. Over 25 yrs of experience on various aspects
of geohydrology, including multiphase modeling, upcaling,
site characterization. Coordinator of MUSTANG (EU FP7 program
for CO2 geological storage) including major role in designing
the Heletz CO2 injection experiment, together with EWRE.
Scientific visibility e.g.: Convening major CO2 sessions
in EGU, 2011 and 2012; Member of EASAC working group on CCS;
Member of the editorial board of IJGHG etc.;
Main responsible of the UU work in this project.
Prof. Christofer Juhlin is Professor in
Geophysics at Uppsala and adjunct professor at Curtin University
of Technology. Experience from many large projects, including
the Swedish Deep Gas Drilling Project, nuclear waste storage,
various Europrobe projects, and number of international CO2 projects such as
CO2SINK, CO2CARE and MUSTANG. Head of the SwedSTORECO2 project.
Prof Chin–Fu Tsang (Senior Staff
Scientist emeritus, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
visiting professor at Uppsala) is one of the foremost experts in
the world in the field of
modeling of coupled processes and fractured media. Extensive experience in THMC
processes, high-level experience on several aspects of CO2 storage including
the far field impacts and pressure plume. Relevant visibility e.g. by co-chairing
intnl. workshop in CO2 storage (CO2SC 2006) held in Berkeley, USA. Will
participate in supervisory role to pressure plume/far field impacts studies and
hydromechanical (coupling) studies.
Dr. Fritjof Fagerlund is an Assistant
Professor with experience in particular in multi–phase
modeling, and his position is especially directed towards
CO2 storage. Major experience in modeling the CO2 geological
storage in particular as part of the design simulations
of the Heletz injection experiment.
Dr. Prabhakar Sharma is an Assistant
Professor with emphasis in experimental hydrology. He
will give support to hydrological data analysis from Heletz.
In addition, there area number of PhD. students and PostDocs actively working
with CO2 geological storage research and will contribute
with their participation and support to this project.
We will hire a new PostDoc on geohydroloigcal work and one
on geophysical work to participate to this
project.
More detailed descriptions of the group and the persons can
be found here (geohydrology) and
here (seismic
geophysics)
- IIT
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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Person in charge: Professor Jacob Bear
Profile:
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a
public research university in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1912, Technion
is the oldest university in Israel. The university offers degrees in
science and engineering, and related fields such as architecture,
medicine, industrial management and education
Relevant Expertise:
Relevant to this projects are
its experts in the departments of Civil and Environmental
Engineering/division of hydrodynamics and water resources,
and the department of Mechanical engineering. Specifically,
these departments include experts in:
(1) Modelling phenomena
of transport in porous media;
(2) Hydrology and hydraulics
of groundwater;
(3) Management of water resources
(4) Chemical engineering
(5) Hydrodynamics and thermodynamics.
(6) Geo–Mechanics.
(7) Energy systems (information systems engineering).
Contribution:
Leading the activities in WP5.
research leading to identification of all relevant flow,
reactive transport, thermodynamic and geo–mechanic processes,
analyzing them and eventually incorporating them in a comprehensive
flow and transport model that will be used for analyzing
CO2 sequestration in geological formations.
Key Personnel:
Jacob Bear
Professor (Emeritus) of Hydrology, Hydrogeology in the Dept. of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, at the Technion – Israel Institute.
Of technology, Israel. His research and publication activities
are covering the areas of: Hydrology of groundwater; Modelling
flow and contaminant transport in aquifers; Management of
water resources systems, especially aquifers; Phenomena of
transport in porous media; Focus on the development of numerical
tools (double continuum model); The quantification of flow
processes in the fractured–porous fractured unsaturated zone
as well as the characterisation of the aquifer geometries
and hydraulic parameters. Further expertise in the area of
water resources assessment in arid and semi–arid areas, infiltration
processes in unsaturated fractured systems and the characterisation
of geothermal reservoirs with tracer experiments.
- UGOE
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UGOE – University of Göttingen,
Geoscience Center (GZG)
Person in charge: Prof. Dr. Martin Sauter
Profile:
The Chair of Applied Geology at the
Geosciences Centre in Göttingen was established
in 2002 with a special focus on the hydrogeology of fractured aquifers and is now
recognized to be a renowned institution in this field. Today it comprises
approximately 45 personnel including two professors, 5 faculty and staff members,
13 post doctorate students, 19 Ph.D. students and 15 M.Sc.
students,
(http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/8483.html).
Research and teaching at the Chair of
Applied Geology is divided into seven groundwater orientated thematic groups placing
an emphasis on subsurface investigation and characterization, modelling, exploitation
of geothermal energy, hydro-geochemistry, risk assessment and remediation of
contamination as a result of industrial activities
Relevant Expertise:
1) Long-term expertise in the characterization of fractured porous groundwater systems.
2) Subsurface investigation al laboratory scale, column experiments.
3) Subsurface investigation at field scale using hydraulic, tracer testing and borehole
geophysical methods at large depths (4–5000 m).
4) Hydro-geochemistry, analytical techniques.
5) Numerical modelling of flow and reactive transport.
Contribution:
pscaling the experiment results to industrial
scale; Development of KIS-Tracers; Modelling of CO2 storage processes in the
subsurface; Risk-assessment.
Key Personnel:
Martin Sauter:
Professor
of Applied Geology at the GZG; focus on the development of
numerical tools (double continuum model), quantification
of flow processes in fractured–porous fractured unsaturated zone
as well as the characterisation of the aquifer geometries and hydraulic
parameters. Further expertise in the area of water resources assessment
in arid and semi-arid areas, infiltration processes in unsaturated fractured
systems and the characterisation of geothermal reservoirs with tracer
experiments.
Tobias Licha: M.Sc. (1998) on Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry and Hydrogeology
at the University College London, Ph.D. (2002) on „Short chained alkylphenols in
groundwater- Chemical analysis, Adsorption Mechanism and Field Cases“. Currently
head of the hydrochemical laboratories at GZG. Main research is on transport
behavior of soluble organics, reactive tracers and instrumental organic analysis.
Thomas Ptak: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Ptak leads the groundwater research group at
the Department of Applied Geology in Göttingen. He received his Diploma in civil
engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, the Ph.D. degree from the University of
Stuttgart. His work mainly focuses on the development of subsurface investigation
methods, multilevel groundwater sampling technology, measuring equipment,
quantification of natural attenuation processes, and numerical stochastic transport
modelling techniques, which are based on geostatistical approaches.
Tatomir, Alexandru: Dr. A. Tatomir is a PostDoc in the Applied Geology Department
at University of Göttingen. Ph.D. (2012) at the University of Stuttgart developing
conceptual and numerical models for multiphase flow in fractured porous media. Main
research interests are on up-scaling, flow and transport in heterogeneous porous
media, code development, designing and modeling of tracer tests.
- CSIC
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CSIC – National Research Council of Spain
Person in charge: Jesus Carrera Ramirez
Profile:
Spanish national network of research institutes.
The team participating in MUSTANG comprises two groups: Hydrogeology (GHS with an associate unit
at the Technical University of Catalonia, UPC – 6 professors and 20 investigators) and Environmental
Geochemistry (GQA – 3 senior researchers and some 10 doctoral and post–doctoral assistants). It
combines experience on Groundwater and Geochemistry, including the characterization of permeable
media by means of hydraulic, hydro–chemical and environmental isotope data, solids and aqueous
solutions and the quantitative assessment of water–rock interactions, with special emphasis on low
permeability fractured media. Development of numerical modelling techniques and other part work in
data acquisition both in the field (down–hole logging and monitoring equipment) and in the lab
(access to XRD, TEM, AFM, etc). The group has a long record of collaboration on both publicly and
privately funded projects, including more than 15 EU projects.
Relevant Expertise:
Code development: Single and Multiphase flow coupled to soil deformation under
nonisothermal conditions, Reactive transport, parameter estimation. Modelling;
nonisothermal single and multiphase flow, reactive transport processes for soil
decontamination, multi-component gaseous transport in fractured media. Field Testing;
Hydraulic and tracer testing in saturated and non saturated media and monitoring of
hydraulic and reactive transport for low permeability fractured media. Laboratory testing;
single and multiphase “flow–through” experiments, tests for reactive processes.
Characterization; hydraulic parameters (retention and relative permeability), solid
characterization (DFX, SEM, AFM,…), water samples extraction by squeezing and dilution.
Currently working on several mayor Spanish (CIUDEN) and EU (MUSTANG. PANACEA)
projects on CO2 geological storage.
Contribution:
Processes, Modelling, Integration
Resources:
Laboratory for experiments on fluid-rock interactions, fluid and solid analyses, access to
supercomputing facilities for numerical modelling, access to Hontomin field data.
Key Personnel
Jesus Carrera: Ph.D. Univ. Arizona (1984). Professor at UPC until 2006, vice
-president for research of the university (1994-1998). Leads a research group in groundwater
hydrology of about 30 people that has developed 6 codes to model flow, transport,
conjunctive management of surface and groundwater, network design, multiphase nonisothermal
flow and reactive transport. These been applied to a wide set of problems.
Coauthored more than 300 publications, including more than 70 in international refereed
journals.
Jordi Cama: Ph.D. Geology, University of Barcelona, Spain (1998);
Researcher at IDAEA,
laboratory measurement of mineral dissolution kinetics, CO2-brine-rock interactions,
passive treatment of contaminated waters, natural attenuation proceses.
Josep M. Soler: Professor, geologist (Ph.D. 1997 Yale University);
Reactive transport
modelling applied to weathering and bauxite formation, effect of hyperalkaline solutions on
rocks hosting repositories for radioactive waste, diffusion and sorption in clay formations,
coupled transport phenomena.
Marco Dentz: Doctor of Natural Sciences, Rupertus Carola University of
Heidelberg, 2000;
Stochastic processes, Transport theory, Up-scaling, Non-linear dynamics, Flow and
transport in heterogeneous formations, Subsurface hydrology.
Collaborators from UPC:
Maarten W. Saaltink: Ph.D. UPC, Spain (1999); Interpretation of pumping and tracer
tests in fractured media, development of finite element reactive transport model codes,
numerical and computational behaviour of solution methods for reactive transport model
codes, numerical modelling of reactive transport.
Tobias S. Rötting: Ph.D. UPC, Spain (2007); Researcher at UPC,
Passive remediation of
acid mine drainage and other waters with high metal concentrations, CO2-brine-rock
interactions, Reactive transport modelling, Geostatistical inverse modelling of groundwater
flow, Multilevel groundwater sampling techniques, Sustainable water management,
Science-policy interactions.
- CNRS
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CNRS– Géosciences Montpellier
Person in charge: Philippe Pezard
Profile:
Géosciences Montpellier (CNRS): 70 scientists with expertise from geochemistry to
hydrology, 40 engineers and technicians, and 50 postdoc and
PhD students. Scientific approaches including field measurements,
laboratory experiments and quantitative modelling of (hydro)geologic
processes. Ongoing projects include: (i) quantifying heterogeneities
at all scales, (ii) determining temporal changes in hydrologic
systems and the application of this knowledge to the remediation
of pollution; (iii) diffusion and transport in sedimentary
rocks; (iv) experimental and modelling studies of dissolution
and precipitation during CO2 injection into geologic systems
in cooperation with several industrial programs and the French
National Research Agency and (v) borehole hydrogeophysical
monitoring systems. Geosciences was ranked in 2010 at the
highest level (A+) by the national evaluation commission
(AERES).
Relevant Expertise:
Coordinator of numerous
fundamental and applied research programs, including recently
the ALIANCE European project, the group has partnerships
with a variety of technologic partners including the CEA
(the French Nuclear Research Agency), IRSN (the French Institute
for radioactivity protection, TOTAL and SMEs. Its
experimental know-how and analytical expertise make it one
of the leading
laboratories in the coupling of fluid-rock interaction with
fluid flow and
hydrodynamics. The team is also strongly involved in three
other projects at European scale, focusing on geothermal energy
(HiTI) and CCS (CARBFIX, MUSTANG and PANACEA). CNRS is also developing
monitoring and downhole geophysical and hydro-geological tools.
At laboratory scale, CNRS has developed percolation benches
for specific application to underground CO2 storage (the ICARE
LAB. Platform).
Contribution:
Laboratory experiments for developing remediation fluids. Monitoring
strategy and monitoring data analysis (surface and downhole). Field
applications (RTS monitoring and remediation experiment at Heletz).
Training. Coordination of WP03 & WP06.
Resources:
High-tech laboratory equipment
for performing percolation experiments up to 200°C – 20MPa
and petrophysic analyses. Fluid and rock analysis (ICPMS-HR/Laser,
ICP-AES, BEM, EBSD, Raman,XRD, AFM, …). Micro-tomograhy
data analysis platform. CFD and flow-transport-reactions
simulation tools and parallel computing resources.
Workbench
for development/test/calibration of borehole logging and
monitoring equipment. Experimental site for low depth CO2
injection (monitoring tool testing).
Key Personnel
Philippe Pezard: Ph.D from Columbia U., New York, (1990) and Head
Research Scientist at CNRS. Former president of the French research group
for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP; 2000 - 2003). Main
research topics are petrophysical properties of rocks, geophysics, fluid flow
and stress field analyses in the subsurface and monitoring devices
development. Co-author of more than 100 publications, including 72 in
international refereed journals.
Philippe Gouze: Ph.D in quantitative hydrology (1993) from the U. of Paris
UPMC under the direction of G. de Marsily. Full time researcher CNRS from
1995. Head of the Transport in Porous Media group (29 peoples) part of the
Geosciences research unit. His research works focus on groundwater and
reservoirs modelling with emphasis on reactive transport and experimental
characterization of flow, transport and reactions from laboratory scale to
field scale. He co-authored more than 70 publications, including more than
45 in international refereed journals.
- IMAGEAU
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IMAGEAU –instrumentation du sous-sol
Person in charge: Laurent DEPRAZ
Profile:
Created in 2008, IMAGEAU is a
start-up company specialized in the domain of subsurface
instrumentation, particularly based on geophysical and hydrological
methods. It is an SME with 10 employees, with individuals
exceeding individually 20 years of experience in the domains
of geophysics, downhole geophysical and hydrological methods,
instrumentation and permanent observatories.
Relevant Expertise:
IMAGEAU is the exclusive owner
of a patent (N° 06 09965 in France, with pending extension
at European scale) dedicated to subsurface instrumentation
from boreholes with hydrogeophysical methods. The project
head engineer has experience in the domain of geophysical
instrumentation and software development for the past 20
years. The head scientist for IMAGEAU, electrical engineer
and PhD, has over 25 years of experience in Earth sciences
and, particularly, borehole geophysics, environmental applications
and instrumentation. Coordinator the ALIANCE European project
(FP5), he has been a participant to the FP6 “HITI” project
coordinated by ISOR (Iceland) and is a now a participant
to the FP7 “MUSTANG” project coordinated by ISOR (Iceland).
IMAGEAU field experimental knowledge and analytical expertise
makes it one of the leading SME in downhole geophysical instrumentation.
IMAGEAU has partnerships and contracts with a number of French
and European research bodies (CNRS, BRGM, SINTEF, Environmental
Ministry of Baleares), and international companies (Schlumberger,
TOTAL, VEOLIA, SOLVAY, Bureau Veritas).
Contribution:
Design, construction and field
deployment of the “RTSG” (resistivity/ temperature/ strain/
gas) downhole electrical resistivity observatory equipped
with fiber optical sensors in the context of the geophysical
monitoring experiment at the Maguelone site (Languedoc, France).
Resources:
Logging tools and associated
equipments (truck, winch, cable, …) for field deployment
and calibration of downhole observatories.
Key Personnel
Denis NEYENS: Head
engineer - Instrument design & construction
Simon BARRY: Field geophysical engineer
Jean-Philippe BELLOT: Hydrogeologist
Philippe PEZARD: Head scientist
Laurent DEPRAZ: Project manager
- UCAM
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UCAM
Person in charge: Herbert Huppert
Profile:
1989- Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director of the Institute of
Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge.
FRS since 1987.
Fellow of American Geophysical Union and American Physical Society.
2006-2011 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
2011 Bakerian Prize Lecture of the Royal Society on ‘Carbon storage: caught between a
rock and climate change.
Author or co-author of approximately 230 scientific research papers discussing applied
mathematics, crystal growth, fluid mechanics, geology, geophysics, oceanography,
meteorology and science in general, with a total of over 8000 citations and an h index of
49.
BSc (Hons, Sydney) MA (Cantab) Ph.D. (California)
MS (California) MSc (Australian National) Sc.D. (Cantab)
Relevant Expertise:
Huppert’s research has been in many areas of quantitative fluid mechanics. His
approach can be categorised as building nonlinear mathematical models, which require
analytical, approximate or numerical solution, and comparing the results with specially
designed laboratory experiments. He then extrapolates these new concepts to describe
quantitatively large-scale natural events and industrial situations. Some five years ago
he started working on carbon dioxide storage, presenting one of the first models to
determine how far the storage pool, trapped by an impermeable cap rock, would extend
with time. He then developed the initial models to calculate leakage times and
dissolution rates. He is the author or co-author of over 235 papers, which have been
published mainly in leading international journals devoted to aspects of fluid mechanics
and applied mathematics.
Contribution:
Will conduct numerical and analytical investigations in broad areas relevant to carbon
dioxide storage, confirmed by simple desk-top experiments. Will investigate and bring
order to data from large-scale field experiments around the world.
Resources:
DAMTP has one of the best laboratories worldwide specialising in the investigation of
small-scale fluid-dynamical systems. There are three permanent technicians employed
in the laboratory, in addition to two part-timers. There is a considerable amount of
experimental equipment, and more can be made in the attached machine shop, which
has allowed many investigations of different types to be undertaken. The lab is under
the directorship of Dr Stuart Dalziel, who is aided in this task by Prof. Paul Linden FRS,
the recently appointed G. I. Taylor Professor, who has extensive experience over a
whole range of environmental problems.
Key Personnel
Herbert Huppert
Jerome Neufeld
Neufeld is a recently appointed lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His appointment
is equally split between the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
the BP Institute and the Department of Earth Sciences. He has performed innovative
work on the melting of the base of an ice sheet due to an adjacent shear current, the
solidification of binary alloys and recently on carbon dioxide sequestrations. He has
been intimately involved in the investigations and resulting scientific papers on effects of
leakage and dissolution. He has developed general models of the microstructure of
crystalline arrays and how they are influenced by flows both internally and externally.
- VIBROMETRIC
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VIBROMETRIC Oy COSMA
Person in charge: Calin Cosma
Profile:
Vibrometric Oy is a consulting, R & D company specialised in geophysical studies for
engineering, mining and environment. The company offers integrated contractual and
/ or consulting services, based on a range of hardware and software tools of
proprietary design, the results from sustained R & D activity over two decades. In
particular, Vibrometric has provided notable contributions to the development of
small scale and deep seismic imaging methods and techniques. Since 1986, The
company is based in Helsinki, Finland since 1986 (www.vibrometric.com).
Relevant Expertise:
Areas of expertise and fields of application include: site characterisation (prediction of
weak zones and faults, rock quality assessment); mining (ore prospecting and
delineation, mapping of ore bodies and seams); oil (fractured reservoir
characterisation, 3D fracture mapping from VSP data) tunnels (prediction of rock
anomalies ahead of works) & location of old shafts, drifts, caverns; nuclear and
hydroelectric power plants (foundation and underground facilities); ground
engineering & control of man-made structures; dams and dam sites (detection of
leakage, mapping of karsts, checking of grout injection, etc.); bridges (detection of
fissures, sand pockets and unconsolidated concrete); chemical and radioactive waste
and chemicals, water resources, environmental contamination); storage for oil, gas,
hot water
Contribution:
Vibrometric Oy is a consulting, R & D company specialised in geophysical studies for
engineering, mining and environment. The company offers integrated contractual and
/ or consulting services, based on a range of hardware and software tools of
proprietary design, the results from sustained R & D activity over two decades. In
particular, Vibrometric has provided notable contributions to the development of
small scale and deep seismic imaging methods and techniques. Since 1986, The
company is based in Helsinki, Finland since 1986 (www.vibrometric.com).
Resources:
A wide range of hardware and software
tools for seismic investigations. These are of
proprietary design, resulted from a sustained R&D activity of more than two decades.
Key Personnel
Calin Cosma,
president of Vibrometric Oy, has a broad international background in
the development of specialised geophysical tools and geophysical surveying. He holds
a PhD in physics. He has worked on several large projects, including the national and
international programs for nuclear waste storage characterisation, various mining
projects, and recently, the CO2SINK and MUSTANG EU funded projects for CO2
storage characterisation.
Nicoleta Enescu, Ph.D., specialized is signal processing and interpretation focused
on seismic imaging from surface and boreholes. She has worked on several large
projects, including the CO2SINK and MUSTANG EU funded projects for CO2 storage
characterisation.
- IMPCOL
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IMPCOL - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Person in charge: Robert W. Zimmerman
Profile:
Imperial College is generally ranked among the top twenty universities in the world,
and the top five in Europe (according to Times Higher Education, 2011: 9th in world,
3rd in Europe). The Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College
is a world leader in modelling mechanical, hydrological and chemical processes
occurring in the subsurface. The department has 45 full-time permanent academic
staff, 57 post-doctoral researchers, 148 PhD students, and includes two member of
the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. The group involved in the TRUST proposal has
a long record of collaboration on both publicly and privately funded projects,
including five EU projects, and numerous projects funded by major oil and mining
companies.
Relevant Expertise:
The Imperial College team has extensive experience in both analytical and numerical
modelling of subsurface geomechanical processes. Of particular relevance to the
present project is the development of a proprietary two- and three-dimensional
geomechanics simulation tool, in the form of an object-oriented finite element-based
library for fracture propagation. The library is fully integrated into the CSMP++ multiphysics
modelling Application Programming Interface, developed jointly with ETH
Zurich.
Contribution:
Numerical modelling of geomechanical processes.
Resources:
Extensive in-house computer software for hydrogeomechanical process modelling,
access to supercomputing facilities for numerical modelling.
Key Personnel
Robert Zimmerman: B.S., Columbia University, 1977; M.S., Columbia University,
1979; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1984. He has been a lecturer at UC
Berkeley, a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Head of
the Division of Engineering Geology and Geophysics at the Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Rock
mechanics at Imperial College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal
of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, and is on the Editorial Boards of Transport in
Porous Media and the International Journal of Engineering Science. He is the author
of the monograph Compressibility of Sandstones (Elsevier, 1991), and co-author,
with JC Jaeger and NGW Cook, of Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics (4th ed., Wiley-
Blackwell, 2007). He conducts research on the hydromechanical behaviour of
fractured and porous rocks, petrophysics, fluid flow in porous media, rock failure and
fracture, and on the relationship between microstructure and the physical properties
of heterogeneous materials, with applications to petroleum engineering, underground
mining, radioactive waste disposal, and subsurface carbon sequestration. He is the
author of over 80 articles in refereed scientific journals.
Dr. Adriana Paluszny: M.S. in Computer Science, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas,
2003; Ph.D., Imperial College, 2008. Dr. Paluszny has over two years of industrial
experience as a scientific developer. Since 2009 she has been a research associate at
Imperial College, developing new methods to model fracture and fragmentation in
rock masses using object-oriented C++. She conducts research in modelling of
fracture growth, generation of topological and geometrically realistic fracture
patterns, flow in fractured porous media, and fragmentation, in the context of
petroleum engineering and mining. Her core expertise includes numerical methods,
computational geometry, scientific visualization, object-oriented software
development, and applied mathematics. She is an active reviewer for over a dozen
different specialized journals and conferences, and has published a number of papers
in high-ranked journals.
- ETH
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ETH - The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Person in charge: Ralf Brauchler
Profile:
Founded in 1855, ETH Zurich today offers researchers an inspiring environment and
students a comprehensive education as one of the leading international universities
for technology and the natural sciences. ETH Zurich has more than 16,000 students
from approximately 80 countries, 3,500 of whom are doctoral candidates. More than
400 professors teach and conduct research in the areas of engineering, architecture,
mathematics, natural sciences, system-oriented sciences, and management and
social sciences. ETH Zurich regularly appears at the top of international rankings as
one of the best universities in the world. 21 Nobel Laureates have studied, taught or
conducted research at ETH Zurich, underlining the excellent reputation of the
institute. Transferring its knowledge to the private sector and society at large is one
of ETH Zurich’s primary concerns. It has succeeded in this, as borne out by the 80
new patent applications each year and the 215 spin-off companies that were created
out of the institute between 1996 and 2010. ETH Zurich orients its research strategy
around global challenges such as climate change, world food supply and human
health issues.
Relevant Expertise:
Integration of flow, transport and geophysical data: Development of hydraulic and
hydrogeophysical tomographic inverse schemes that are based on transformation of
the diffusivity and transport equation into the eikonal equation as well as optimization
procedures based on geostatistics. Development of analytical solutions for heat
transport taking into account different boundary conditions. Performance of a large
variety of hydrogeological and geophysical field and laboratory testing: multi-level,
multi-well hydraulic and tracer testing, geophysical well bore logging, seismic
tomographic measurements, pneumatic flow and transport measurements at
fractured low permeability laboratory samples.
Contribution:
Inverse modelling, high resolution parameter estimation
Resources:
Access to a suite of numerical solvers (eikonal, diffusivity and solute transport) and
access to supercomputing facilities for numerical modeling.
Key Personnel
strong>Ralf Brauchler: Ph.D. Univ. Tübingen (2005). Dr. Ralf Brauchler has been a Senior
Research Associate in the engineering geology group since September 2010. His
main research covers many aspects of hydrogeological site investigation with special
focus on high resolution tomographic methods. He develops hydrogeological and
hydro-geophysical inversion schemes to understand solute and heat transport
processes in the subsurface. Therefore, Ralf Brauchler performs hydraulic, tracer
tests and geophysical field measurements in unconsolidated and fractured aquifers.
Beyond this, he has a broad experience in flow and transport on the laboratory scale
in low permeable fractured geological materials.
Peter Bayer: Ph.D. Univ, Tübingen (2004); has been a Senior Research Associate in
the engineering geology group since January 2009. His work is dedicated to
groundwater, with the main focus set on characterization and simulation of
hydrogeological and geothermal systems. He is also active in in operations research
so as to integrate environmental model development and methods of applied
optimization, geostatistics and probability theory. In 2007-2009 he worked on water
related environmental assessment methods as Marie Curie Fellow at the Ecological
Systems Design group at the ETH. Peter Bayer also served as consultant for the
United Nations IAEA, was in the Editorial Board of the Hydrogeology Journal and of
the MDPI Journal Sustainability.
- KLOE SA
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KLOE SA
Person in charge: Paul Coudray
Profile:
Kloe was founded in 2000 for the development of new solutions in Optics and
Photonics. The Dilase technology developed by Kloe provides a high flexibility for the
development of new optical functions and products, which placed on the market a
new range of passive optical sensors for a wide range of applications, such as
temperature sensors (K-FBG), gas sensors (K-BGS) or strain sensors (K-STR).
These sensors, either based on optical fiber or optical integrated circuits technologies,
are associated to a hardware interrogator : K-FBG / K-BGS and K-STR Monitoring
Units, with high data refreshment rates in order to provide quasi real time readings.
THe sensors are also associated to a GUI (Graphical User-friendly Interface) software
which, in particular, is suitable for direct readings, localisation and quantification of
any event observed along a sensing cable.
Relevant Expertise:
The K-FBG technology (temperature) developed by Kloé offers the unique ability to
implement a very large number of precisely localized sensors along a same optical
sensing cable, and to monitor several of these cables with a single hardware system.
These sensors are highly sensitive and can detect temperature changes smaller than
0.5°C in a few seconds.
The K-BGS technology (gas) developed by Kloé offers now the ability to detect very
low concentrations of alcanes gases, in a passive manner.
In parallel, this technology is being transfered to other strategical industrial gases
such as CO, CO2, H2 and H2S.
Over the past years, Kloé accumulated expertise and qualifications with the
deployment of these technologies in domains such as Oil&Gas exploration and
production, land drilling and the geothermal industry.
Contribution:
Optical Integration for a downhole temperature array based on the BGS technology
Resources:
R&D capabilities (clean room…), Field optical instruments and tools
Key Personnel
Paul Coudray: CEO of KLOE
Nicolas Brillouet: CTO of KLOE and General Management of Optical Sensing Technologies
Benjamin Rolland: Product Manager, Optical sensors/Optical Integrated Sensors & Fiber Sensors
- KIT
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KIT
Person in charge: Dr. Gabriele Wiegand
Profile:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a higher education and research
organisation with about 8,900 employees and 20,000 students. KIT was established
on 01/10/2009 as merger of Universität Karlsruhe (founded in 1825) and the
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (founded in 1956), member of the Helmholtz
Association of German Research Centres. In the area of technology and the
environment, KIT devotes its attention to research and development work in the
interest of the public
Its Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) in general contributes to
energy and environment related topics such as the use of biomass for chemicals and
fuels production, improved combustion and gasification processes at high pressures
and temperatures, geochemistry, and CCS. The IKFT has a staff of approx. 100,
working in the field of: 1) Inline monitoring for separation processes in supercritical
CO2 (extraction, cleaning); 2) fundamental studies in the water - CO2 system at high
pressures and temperatures for CCS and geothermal applications (e.g. phase
equilibria, distribution coefficients, salt effects, mass transfer, interfacial phenomena
including the influence of surfactants); 3) homogeneous catalysis in supercritical
fluids and using CO2 as a C1 building block; 4) production of synthetic fuels via
combined fast pyrolysis and entrained flow gasification; 5) biomass utilization for
hydrogen production via hydrothermal gasification (with integrated CO2-separation
ready for use or storage); 6) catalyst design and catalysis for polymerisation of
expoxy resins for composite materials. Special attention in the R&D work is paid to
the full development of processes from lab scale up to process design and
demonstration. Therefore, a broad variety of lab scale, PDU and pilot scale equipment
is in use, providing fundamental and process data, supported by modelling and
process simulation.
Relevant Expertise:
Handling of CO2 at high pressures, also for CO2 injection for storage; Physicochemical
characterization of (water + carbon dioxide) systems under pressures up to
1000 bars and temperatures up to 200°C; Conceptual design, construction and
operation of high pressure devices for phase behavior, mass transfer and interfacial
phenomena, chemical reactions; Inline and online monitoring methods at high
pressures and temperatures for water and CO2 phases, Measurement and modeling
of results; Due to biomass and fossil feedstock utilization technologies long-term
knowledge on CO2-mitigation problems.
Contribution:
Development of a CO2 handling method and strategies for high pressure
injection for storage purposes; Elaboration of Risk Management for the
TRUST Project.
Resources:
High pressure plants of IKFT (KIT) consisting of high pressure visual cells, different
types of high pressure compression devices for CO2 and liquids (gas compressors,
syringe and HPLC pumps), online monitoring systems for gas phase and liquid phase
analysis, NIR inline monitoring device, analytical labs of IKFT.
Key Personnel
Dr. Gabriele Wiegand, Research Scientist and Certified Safety Officer according to
German regulations, Management of WP07
- BV
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BUREAU VERITAS - BV
Person in charge: Pierre Besse
Profile:
Coordination of R&D projects,
including on CO2 storage (e.g. CO2FieldLab)
Bureau Veritas is a global leader in
conformity assessment services the areas of quality,
health and safety, environment and social responsibility
(QHSE). It includes eight global businesses providing
a complete set of services, servicing 370,000 customers
across a wide range of end markets: Inspection, testing,
audit, certification, risk management, outsourcing, consulting
and training services. Particularly, in the field of
certification, Bureau Veritas has expertise in conformity
assessment of industrial equipment and installations
to regulatory or client specifications from feasibility
stage to de-commissioning.
Relevant Expertise:
Certification, formal safety
assessment, management of Research on safety assessment,
including numerical modeling and instrumentation.
Contribution:
Risk analysis, certification,
dissemination
Resources:
Experts from various relevant
fields
Key Personnel
Eric Baudin: instrumentation,
qualification protocols
Mathieu Bertrane: risk analysis, certification
- IEC
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IEC - Israel Electric Corporation
Person in charge: Giora meron
Profile:
IEC is a large industry, producing and distributing the vast majority of the electricity
in Israel. It is a state company, operates power plants the distribution network in
Israel. It maintains a relatively large number R&D department, which focuses also on
environmental problems in general and among them on CO2 issues. The main
interest of IEC in the project is to be acquainted with CO2 storage as it may be the
key client of the technology in Israel (all the IEC power plants are operated with fossil
fuels such as gas and coal).
Relevant Expertise:
R&D in energy related problems.
Contribution:
Power supply for the operation of the injection at Heletz.
Key Personnel
Giora Meron, Ms.Sc.
- MERIENCE
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MERIENCE
Person in charge: Meritxell Martell Lamolla
Profile:
Degree in Environmental Sciences.
PhD in environmental sciences focused on public participation and sustainability.
Executive Programme of Director of Communications.
Relevant Expertise:
MERIENCE managing director, Dr. Martell, is currently participating in an FP7 EU
project InSOTEC looking at socio-technical challenges of geological disposal, where
she is leading a WP and collaborating in the dissemination and communication of the
project. In addition, she has coordinated and participated in several European R&D
projects in the previous Framework Programme FP6 on governance of radioactive
waste, such as OBRA (European Observatory for Long-term Governance on
Radioactive Waste Management), CIP (Cowam In Practice), SAPIERR2. Apart from
participating in European projects, Dr. Martell has been recently involved as IAEA
expert, providing advice to the communicators in the Agency of Natural Resources
and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan and its relevant
organisations. Other IAEA expert missions where Dr. Martell has been involved have
addressed the remediation of uranium tailings in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. In addition,
she has been collaborating with different groups and committees of the Nuclear
Energy Agency (NEA) looking at crisis communication and stakeholder involvement.
At present, Merience is involved in promoting a 2-year initiative bringing together a
wide range of actors and pooling knowledge and experience to debate on the Spanish
energy mix. This Spanish Energy Mix Forum (SEMF) aims to develop mutual
understanding on low carbon energy alternatives in a way that can encompass
societal needs and environmental, economic, technical and social concerns.
Contribution:
In TRUST, Merience will be leading a WP on public involvement, communication and
liabilities, where the social aspects of the CCS will be investigated and the
dissemination of the project will be developed.
Key Personnel
Meritxell Martell
(communication and public involvement expert)
- LAPIDOTH
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LAPIDOTH
Person in charge: Mr. Eli Kamar
Profile:
Lapidoth specializes in on-shore oil exploration and performs on a commercial basis,
deep drilling for both oil exploration and water supply. It operates the Heletz site.
Relevant Expertise:
Deep Drilling and related activities.
Contribution:
Shall provide the site for injection, drill a new deep well for monitoring, three
shallower wells for seismic monitoring, and reenter one well for the leakage
experiment.
Key Personnel
Rami Matmon: Chief operator.