H035
Clays across Scales: from Fundamental Properties to Subsurface Processes

Session ID#: 82623

Session Description:
Clays have important roles in subsurface systems of relevance to the extraction of energy resources and the storage of energy byproducts. Clay-rich geological repositories are candidates for the long-term disposal of nuclear waste and clayey formations can serve as caprocks for the long-term sequestration of CO2 in geological formations.  Clay-rocks are also important for the extraction of hydrocarbons that are increasingly accessible by hydraulic stimulation methods. The mechanical, chemical and fluid transport processes in clay-rich media remain challenging to understand and to model because these very low permeability, nanoporous systems exhibit a remarkable array of coupled macroscale behaviors. In this session, we will highlight presentations that elucidate the couplings between hydrology, chemistry, mechanical properties and the structure of clay materials with an eye toward seemingly anomalous properties. We invite contributions highlighting new experimental, theoretical, and numerical investigations, across scales and ranging from fundamental studies to research focusing on emergent behavior.
Index Terms:

1009 Geochemical modeling [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
3620 Mineral and crystal chemistry [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3947 Surfaces and interfaces [MINERAL PHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Christophe Tournassat, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States; Université d'Orléans - CNRS/INSU - BRGM, UMR 7327 Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Orléans, France
Conveners:  Benjamin Gilbert, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jens Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christophe Tournassat, BRGM, French Geological Survey, Orléans, France
 
Experimental characterization of clays using spectral induced polarization (487665)
Aida Mendieta1, Damien Jougnot2, Philippe Leroy3 and Alexis Maineult1, (1)Sorbonne University, UMR 7619 METIS, Paris, France, (2)Sorbonne Universite, UMR 7619 METIS, Paris, France, (3)BRGM, Orleans, France
 
Suitability of Bentonite for Long-term Radioactive Waste Disposal: Consideration of Climatic Change (492887)
Blaise Robertson Winnard1, Thomas M Mitchell2, Philip G Meredith1, Robert J Cuss3 and Simon Norris4, (1)University College London, Rock and Ice Physics and Seismological Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (3)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (4)RWM Radioactive Waste Management, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Coupling Clay Swelling Properties to Hydro-Geochemical Conditions: A Reactive Transport Modeling Approach (506001)
Christophe Tournassat, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Carl I Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Modeling structure-composition feedbacks during ion exchange driven swelling of smectite clay minerals (507907)
Laura Nielsen Lammers1, Nithya Subramanian2, Michael Whittaker3, Jillian F Banfield4 and Benjamin Gilbert2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Modelling spectral induced polarization of clays and quartz sand (515426)
Philippe Leroy1, Matthias Bücker2, Johannes Lützenkirchen3, Aida Lorena Mendieta4, Damien Jougnot4 and Alexis Maineult4, (1)French Geological Survey, Water, Environment and Ecotechnologies department, Orleans, France, (2)Braunschweig Technical University, Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal, Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)Sorbonne University, UMR 7619 METIS, Paris, France
 
Supercritical CO2 and CH4 uptake by illite-smectite clay minerals under subsurface conditions (518096)
Junyoung Hwang and Ronny Pini, Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering, London, United Kingdom
 
THMC Behavior of Bentonite under hydration and high temperature at laboratory scale (519155)
Sharon Borglin1, Chun Chang1, Yiwei Cheng2, Chunwei Chou1, Timothy J Kneafsey1, Seiji Nakagawa3, Yuxin Wu2, Liange Zheng4 and Hau Xu5, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Modeling Reactive Transport in Clay Fractures (523272)
Carl I Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States and Christophe Tournassat, BRGM, French Geological Survey, Orléans, France; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
The positive effect of clayey layer on groundwater resources in the North China Plain (530908)
Xiaomin Sun1, Jin Lin1, Jianfeng Wu2, Yunfeng Dai1, Jiangbo Han3 and Peng Liu4, (1)Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing, China, (2)Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing, China, (3)Nanjing hydraulic research institute, Nanjing, China, (4)Nanjing hydraulic research institute, Hydrology and Water Resources Department, Nanjing, China
 
Illitization in bentonite and its effect on stress revealed by coupled THMC models for a nuclear waste repository in clay (549762)
Liange Zheng1, Hao Xu2 and Jens Birkholzer1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Diffusion in Sodium and Enhanced Bentonites at Elevated Temperatures (553474)
Sayed Arafat Bin Rahman1, Gretchen L. Bohnhoff2, Kristin Sample-Lord1, Katherine Wardinski2, Ian Brietlow2, Shan Tong3 and William Henning2, (1)Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, United States, (3)Villanova Universityv, Villanova, United States
 
Effect of Cation Concentration and Radius on Nano-Scale Boehmite Aggregation (555518)
Lawrence M Anovitz1, Patricia Huestis2, Xin Zhang3, Greg Schenter4, Andrew Gregory Stack1, Markus Bleuel5, Cedric Gagnon6, David F.R. Mildner5 and Jaehun Chun7, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Universtiy of Notre Dame, Physics, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Niigata, Japan, (5)NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (6)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (7)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States
 
Insight into the Sealing Capacity of Mudrocks determined using a Digital Rock Physics Workflow (557690)
Abhishek Dilip Bihani1, Hugh Daigle2, Javier E. Santos3, Christopher James Landry1, Masa Prodanovic2 and Kitty Milliken4, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, PGE, Austin, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
 
Deterministic-Chaotic Gas Migration in Bentonite: Evidence, Characteristics and Phenomenological Modeling (570697)
Boris Faybishenko1, Yifeng Wang2, Jon Harrington3, Jens Birkholzer1 and Carlos Jove-Colon4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Pore Structure, Fluid Flow and Chemical Transport in Clayey Materials (591757)
Qiming Wang, The University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Arlington, TX, United States and Qinhong Hu, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
 
Multi-label classification of mineralogy distribution in shale images using machine learning methods (606240)
John Ringer, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States and Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Geomechanics, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
A New Framework for Microscopic to Reservoir-Scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing and Production: Testing with Comprehensive Data from the Hydraulic Fracturing Field Test in the Permian Basin (625860)
Joseph Morris1, Jens Birkholzer2, John Bargar3, Dustin Crandall4, Hang Deng5, Pengcheng Fu1, Alexandra Hakala6, Yue Hao7, Adam D Jew3, Timothy J Kneafsey2, Christina L Lopano6, George J Moridis8, Matthew T Reagan2, Randolph R Settgast1 and Carl I Steefel9, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Research and Innovation Center, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (7)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - LLNL, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Coupled hydro-mechanical modeling of gas migration in compacted bentonite using a discrete fracture network approach (626581)
Kunhwi Kim1, Jonny Rutqvist2 and Jens T Birkholzer2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Soap holes: Localized static liquefaction of clays on the Canadian prairies (629233)
Dylan Cunningham, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Landon Woods, University of Calgary, Calgary, Cayman Islands and Rachel M Lauer, Rachel Lauer, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Synchrotron X-ray Imaging of Reactive Transport in Unconventional Shales (633908)
Vincent Noel1, Wenjia Fan2, John Bargar1, Jennifer L Druhan3, Adam D Jew1, Gordon E Brown4, Anthony R Kovscek5 and Qingyun Li6, (1)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Menlo PARK, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Atomically Resolved Interfacial Geochemistry at Hydrated Clay Interfaces (635016)
Michael Whittaker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, Colin Ophus, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Berkeley, United States, Nithya Subramanian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Laura Nielsen Lammers, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Benjamin Gilbert, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jillian F Banfield, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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