Lecture 'Underground CO2 storage: understanding multiphase flow in rocks from the nano- to the km-scale'

For whom
Employees , Students
When
14-11-2025 from 13:00 to 15:00
Where
Lecture room 1.3, building S8, Campus Sterre, Krijgslaan 297, 9000 Ghent
Language
English
Organizer
Department of Geology - Faculty of Science
Contact
sharon.ellman@ugent.be

Professors Krevor and Rücker will talk about modelling and upscaling CO2 storage as well as new methods to quantify surface energies in porous media.

Understanding and controlling fluid flow in porous media is central to technologies for CCS, energy production, and environmental remediation.

  • Prof Krevor will discuss subsurface CO2 storage, highlighting how cm-scale heterogeneities can influence CO2 migration and storage at the field scale. He will present modelling and characterization workflows applied to UK offshore storage sites, and will discuss how physical and techno-economic constraints affect the feasibility of scaling up CO2 storage to climate-relevant levels.
  • Prof Rücker will explore the role of surface properties in governing multiphase flow. Using inverse gas chromatography, she will show how nanoscale surface energy distributions and contact angles can be directly measured in porous media, and how these measurements connect to macroscopic flow and transport behaviour.

Together, the talks will provide complementary perspectives linking fundamental surface science to large-scale CO2 storage.