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US 12,692,773 B2Granted
Methods and systems for greenhouse gas capture and sequestration
AssigneeCarbon Geocycle, Inc.
InventorsJohn Pope, Wade A. Bard
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Abstract
Injecting CO2 that is diluted within water, into a coal seam, which allows for the sequestering and control of downhole CO2 within connected fractures without damaging the subterranean formation.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- forming a mixture stream that is water-based by dissolving carbon dioxide in water;
- injecting the mixture stream into a solid subterranean formation, wherein the solid subterranean formation is a coal seam, wherein carbon dioxide is diluted to a concentration that does not cause the solid subterranean formation to swell, and the solid subterranean formation naturally absorbs carbon dioxide within the mixture stream gas over nitrogen and methane;
- wherein the methane within the solid subterranean formation moves along a pressure gradient across multiple axis of the solid subterranean formation;
- sequestering downhole carbon dioxide within connected fractures of the solid subterranean formation without swelling the solid subterranean formation;
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- capping the solid subterranean formation with a water head, wherein a pressure of the water head on the gas sequestration medium is maintained above a pressure of the carbon dioxide within the solid subterranean formation.
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