Quantitative monitoring of dissolved gases in a flooded borehole: calibration of the analytical tools

Gas monitoring is a prerequisite to understanding the exchange, diffusion, and migration processes of natural gases within underground environments, which are involved in several applications such as geological sequestration of CO2. In this study, three different techniques (micro-GC, infrared, and Raman spectroscopies) were deployed on an experimental flooded borehole for monitoring purposes after CO2 injection. The aim was to develop a real-time chemical monitoring device to follow dissolved gas concentrations by measurements in water inside the borehole but also at the surface through a gas collection system in equilibrium with the borehole water. However, all three techniques must be calibrated to provide the most accurate quantitative data. For this, a first step of calibration in the laboratory was carried out. A new calibrations were required to determine partial pressure and/or concentrations of gases in water or in the gas collection system. For gas phase analysis, micro-GC, FTIR spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy were compared. New calibration of the micro-GC was done for CO2, CH4, and N2 with uncertainty from ±100 ppm to 1.5 mol% depending on the bulk concentration and the type of gas. The FTIR and Raman spectrometers were previously calibrated for CO2, and CO2, N2, O2, CH4, and H2O, respectively with an accuracy of 1–6% depending on concentration scale, gas and spectrometer. Dissolved CO2 in water was measured using a Raman spectrometer equipped with an immersion probe. The uncertainty on the predicted dissolved CO2 concentration and partial pressure was ±0.003 mol·kg−1 and ±0.05 bar, respectively

Surface gas geochemistry above the natural CO2 reservoir of Montmiral (Drôme, France), source tracking and gas exchange between the soil, biosphere and atmosphere

International audienceOne of the options considered to mitigate greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere is underground storage of CO2. There is a strong need for enhancing and developing methods that would help throughout the duration life of such underground storage, to ensure the safety and able to monitor the evolution of the injected CO2 plume. Among these, geochemical methods can play an important role. Here, we describe results acquired under the research programme “Géocarbone-Monitoring”, partially funded by the French National Research Agency, on the Montmiral natural analogue in South-Eastern France. Other results obtained under the same research programme in the French Massif Central are reported elsewhere in this volume.Spot sampling methods allowing a great geographical coverage and continuous measurements on selected points were undertaken in 2006 and 2007, in order to determine soil gas concentrations and fluxes as well as carbon isotope ratio determinations. One important result is that without any evidence of deep CO2 leakage, both CO2 concentrations and fluxes appear to be higher than can be explained only by biological activities. Further investigations are thus needed to understand the gas evolution better throughout the year

Applications de la spectrometrie infrarouge a transformee de Fourier pour: 1) l'analyse microscopique des inclusions fluides a hydrocarbures; 2) et l'etude de surface de poudres de silice

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Semi-quantitative FT-IR microanalysis limits: Evidence from synthetic hydrocarbon fluid inclusions in sylvite

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FT-IR microanalysis of hydrocarbon fluid inclusions

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Influence of brine-hydrocarbon interactions on FT-IR microspectroscopic analyses of intracrystalline liquid inclusions

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FTIR spectroscopy of woods: A new approach to study the weathering of the carving face of a sculpture

International audienceFourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), a useful method to study woods, has been applied in order to measure an eventual gradient of water absorbed (more precisely, hydroxyl groups, OH) between the surface and the inner part of an ancient and a modern wooden sculptures. The methodology adopted has consisted in comparing FTIR bands within two spectral ranges, one corresponding to the OH content in the wood (around 3400 cm(-1)) and the other to the lignin molecules (aromatic C=C, around 1610 cm(-1)). The ratio between the intensities of the peaks leads to a self-normalization of the measurements which avoids the effects of some experimental parameters (such as sample preparation). The results obtained show that there is a significant and progressive penetration of OH groups from the surface to the inside part of the ancient sculpture (more OH on the surface than inside the wood, due to the aging of the surface and the creation of sites which are able to fix OH groups). In contrary, for the modern one, we measure an increase of OH contents from the surface to the inner part of the sculpture

In SituInfrared Characterization of Surface Products of Interaction of an Aqueous Xanthate Solution with Chalcopyrite, Tetrahedrite, and Tennantite

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Fluorine-Mediated Acidity of Alumina-Pillared Fluorohectorite

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Organic inclusions in salt. Part 2: oil, gas and ammonium in inclusions from the Gabon margin

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