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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
May. 22, 2020
Carbfix, Reykjavik, IS;
University of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS;
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Barnard College, New York, NY (US);
Bergur Sigfússon, Reykjavik, IS;
Edda Sif Pind Aradóttir, Reykjavik, IS;
Ingvi Gunnarsson, Reykjavik, IS;
Magnus pór Arnarson, Reykjavik, IS;
Einar Gunnlaugsson, Reykjavik, IS;
Hólmfriður Sigurdardóttir, Reykjavik, IS;
Húni Sighvatsson, Reykjavik, IS;
Sigurður Reynir Gíslason, Reykjavik, IS;
Eric H. Oelkers, Toulouse, FR;
Kiflom G. Mesfin, Reykjanesbrer, IS;
Sandra Ósk Snæbjörnsdóttir, Reykjavik, IS;
Iwona M. Galeczka, Kopavogur, IS;
Domenik Wolff-Boenisch, Coolbellup, AU;
Helgi A. Alfredsson, Myvatni, IS;
Porsteinn Jónsson, Reykjavik, IS;
Andri Stefánsson, Reykjavik, IS;
Jürg Matter, Winchester, GB;
Martin Stute, New York, NY (US);
Deirdre Elizabeth Clark, Reykjavik, IS;
Martin Johannes Voigt, Sturlugata, IS;
Carbfix, Reykjavik, IS;
Abstract
This invention relates to a method and a system of abating carbon dioxide (CO) and/or hydrogen sulfide (HS) in a geological reservoir. Water is pumped or transferred from a water source to an injection well. The gasses are merged with the water under conditions where the hydraulic pressure of the water is less than the pressure of COand/or HS gas at the merging point. The water with COand/or HS gas bubbles is transferred further downwardly at a certain velocity higher than the upward flow velocity of said COand/or HS gas bubbles ensuring downward movement of gas bubbles resulting in full dissolution of said COand/or HS in the water due to elevating pressure. The complete dissolution ensures a lowered pH of the water entering a geological (e.g. geothermal) reservoir which is needed to promote mineral reactions leading to COand HS abatement This abatement may be quantified by dissolving a tracer substance in a predetermined molar ratio to said dissolved COand/or HS and monitored in a monitoring well.