Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- A Note About Software
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Modeling Overview
- PART I EQUILIBRIUM IN NATURAL WATERS
- PART II REACTION PROCESSES
- PART III APPLIED REACTION MODELING
- 26 Hydrothermal Fluids
- 27 Geothermometry
- 28 Evaporation
- 29 Sediment Diagenesis
- 30 Kinetics ofWater–Rock Interaction
- 31 Weathering
- 32 Oxidation and Reduction
- 33 Waste InjectionWells
- 34 Petroleum Reservoirs
- 35 Acid Drainage
- 36 Contamination and Remediation
- 37 Microbial Communities
- Appendix A Sources of Modeling Software
- Appendix B Evaluating the HMW Activity Model
- Appendix C Minerals in the LLNL Database
- Appendix D Nonlinear Rate Laws
- References
- Index
33 - Waste InjectionWells
from PART III - APPLIED REACTION MODELING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- A Note About Software
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Modeling Overview
- PART I EQUILIBRIUM IN NATURAL WATERS
- PART II REACTION PROCESSES
- PART III APPLIED REACTION MODELING
- 26 Hydrothermal Fluids
- 27 Geothermometry
- 28 Evaporation
- 29 Sediment Diagenesis
- 30 Kinetics ofWater–Rock Interaction
- 31 Weathering
- 32 Oxidation and Reduction
- 33 Waste InjectionWells
- 34 Petroleum Reservoirs
- 35 Acid Drainage
- 36 Contamination and Remediation
- 37 Microbial Communities
- Appendix A Sources of Modeling Software
- Appendix B Evaluating the HMW Activity Model
- Appendix C Minerals in the LLNL Database
- Appendix D Nonlinear Rate Laws
- References
- Index
Summary
Increasingly since the 1930s, various industries around the world that generate large volumes of liquid byproducts have disposed of their wastes by injecting them into the subsurface of sedimentary basins. In this chapter, we provide two examples of how the application of multicomponent chemical reaction modeling could have prevented catastrophic well failures in Illinois, USA. The first example involves the reaction of a caustic waste stream with the confining layers in a dolomitic accepting formation. In the second example, injection of an acidic waste stream into dolomite resulted in repeated well blowouts.
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- Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling , pp. 403 - 408Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022