Machine learning to discover mineral trapping signatures due to CO2 injection

被引:10
作者
Ahmmed, Bulbul [1 ]
Karra, Satish [1 ]
V. Vesselinov, Velimir [1 ]
Mudunuru, Maruti K. [2 ]
机构
[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Computat Earth Sci Grp, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[2] Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Watershed & Ecosyst Sci, Richland, WA 99352 USA
关键词
Unsupervised machine learning; Reactive-transport simulation; CO2; sequestration; Hidden features; Matrix factorization; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SEQUESTRATION; AQUIFER; SOLUBILITY; SIMULATION; PRESSURE; STORAGE; SCALE; GAS;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103382
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Mineral trapping is pursued as a geological CO2 sequestration (GCS) mechanism because it permanently stores CO2 in solid phases or minerals. However, CO2 mineral-trapping mechanisms are poorly understood due to (1) lack of sufficient field and laboratory data characterizing these complex processes, and (2) challenges to develop site-specific reactive-transport models coupling fluid flow and geochemical reactions occurring at various temporal (from milliseconds to years) and spatial (from pore (millimeters) to field (kilometers)) scales. Reactive transport with additional complexities such as heterogeneity can make the simulation outputs even more difficult to interpret because of complex nonlinearity and multi-scale interdependencies. Furthermore, the values of model outputs such as concentrations can vary by several orders of magnitude, making it harder to correlate and characterize the impact of the variables via traditional data interpretation techniques such as exploratory data analyses. Recently, machine learning (ML) has shown promise in feature discovery and in highlighting hidden mechanisms that cannot be obtained by existing data-analytics and statistical methods. In this study, we applied an unsupervised ML approach, non-negative matrix factorization with custom k-means clustering (NMFk) to the data generated by reactive-transport simulations of GCS. The reactive-transport data consisted of 19 attributes, including four physio-chemical variables (pH, porosity, aqueous CO2, and sequestered CO2), six chemical species (K+, Na+, HCO-3 , Ca2+, Mg2+, Fe2+), and four carbonate minerals (calcite, dolomite, siderite, and ankerite), a feldspar mineral (albite), and four clay minerals (illite, clinochlore, kaolinite, and smectite) over a period of 200 years of simulation time. The simulation adata used was for Morrow B sandstone at the Farnsworth hydrocarbon unit in Texas. Data are sampled at two locations within the model domain: (1) at the injection well and (2) 200 m west of the injection well. The injection was performed for a period of 10 years. Using NMFk, we estimated the temporal interdependencies among the 19 attributes over a span of 200 years. We found that NMFk was able to identify four reaction stages and their dominant attributes; these cannot be directly discerned through traditional visualization (e.g., line plots, Pareto analysis, Glyph-based visualization methods) or exploratory data analysis tools of the simulation data. The four stages were: reactions in the injection phase followed by short-, mid-, and long-term reactions. The NMFk analysis also revealed that 10 among the 19 attributes are dominant. These dominant attributes for mineral trapping include calcite, dolomite at injection well, siderite at 200 m away from the injection well, clinochlore, kaolinite, Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, pH, and aqeuous CO2. Finally, at late times (65-200 years), our results showed that calcite plays a major role in mineral trapping with insignificant contribution from siderite, ankerite, and clay minerals. These findings make the proposed unsupervised MLmodel attractive for reactive-transport sensing towards real-time GCS monitoring.
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