TOUGH Symposium 2003 Background

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Monday Morning, May 12, 2003, Building 66 Auditorium

07:30–08:30	Registration
08:30–08:45	Karsten Pruess	Welcome
08:45–09:00	Organizing Committee	Introduction and Announcements

Session 1: Geothermal Reservoir Engineering
Chairman:Marcelo Lippmann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

09:00–09:30	Grimur Björnsson, Arnar Hjartarson, Gudmundur Bödvarsson, Benedikt Steingrimsson	Development of a 3–D geothermal reservoir model for the greater Hengill volcano in SW–Iceland
09:30–09:50	Cornel Ofwona	An update of the natural state numerical model of Olkaria geothermal system, Kenya
09:50–10:10	Claudio Calore, Alfredo Battistelli	Application of TOUGH2/EWASG to the modelling of salt water injection into a depleted geothermal reservoir: preliminary results
10:10–10:40	Coffee Break
10:40–11:00	Kazumi Osato, Satoshi Ujo, Stephen White	Prediction of formation equilibrium temperature while drilling based on drilling mud temperature: Inverse problem using TOUGH2 and wellbore thermal model
11:00–11:20	Micol Todesco, Jonny Rutqvist, Giovanni Choidini, Karsten Pruess, Curt Oldenburg	Modeling of recent volcanic episodes at Phlegrean Fields (Italy): Geochemical variations and ground deformation
11:20–11:40	Pat Dobson, Sonia Salah, Nicolas Spycher, Eric Sonnenthal	Simulation of water–rock interaction in the Yellowstone geothermal system using TOUGHREACT
11:40–13:00	Lunch Break

Monday Afternoon, May 12, 2003, Building 66 Auditorium

Session 2: Fracture Flow and Vadose Zone Hydrology
Chairman: Paul Witherspoon, University of California, Berkeley, California

13:00–13:30	Stefan Finsterle	iTOUGH2: From parameter estimation to model structure identification
13:30–13:50	Robert Podgorney, Jerry Fairley	Evaluating conceptual models of flow in unsaturated, fractured porous media
13:50–14:10	Hui–Hai Liu, G. Zhang, Bo Bödvarsson	The active fracture model: Its relation to fractal flow patterns and further evaluation using field observations
14:10–14:30	Ivan Lunati, Wolfgang Kinzelbach	Gas tracer tests in an unsaturated fracture: Water soluble gases as partitioning tracers
14:30–15:00	Coffee Break
15:00–15:20	Niclas Bockgård, Auli Niemi	Role of soil–rock interaction on recharge into fractured rock
15:20–15:40	Alan Flint	The role of unsaturated flow in artificial recharge projects
15:40–16:00	Mike Kowalsky, Stefan Finsterle, Yoram Rubin	Estimating flow parameters using ground–penetrating radar and hydrological data during transient flow in the vadose zone

Monday Evening, May 12, 2003, Cafeteria

Session 3: Poster Session
Chairman: Curt Oldenburg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

17:00–20:00

Poster Session

3.1: New Modules and Developments

Jong Kim, Stefan Finsterle, Richard Doktor	Application of automatic differentiation in TOUGH2
Karsten Pruess, Alfredo Battistelli	TMVOC, A simulator for multiple volatile organic chemicals
Chao Shan, Karsten Pruess	EOSN—A new TOUGH2 module for simulating transport of noble gases in the subsurface

Session 3.2: Pre– and Post–Processing

Daniel Swenson, Brian Hardeman, Casey Presson, Charlie Thornton	Using PetraSim to create, execute, and post–process TOUGH2 models
Kazumasa Ito, Yongkoo Seol	A 3–dimensional discrete fracture network generator to examine fracture–matrix interaction using TOUGH2
Lehua Pan	WinGridder—An interactive grid generator for TOUGH2
John Burnell, Stephen White, Kazumi Osato, Tatsuya Sato	GeoCad—A pre- and post processor for TOUGH2
Tatsuya Sato, Kazumi Ohsato, Takahiro Shiga	G-Star-Base (G*Base)—A data base system for underground information and post-processing for TOUGH2

Session 3.3: Geothermal Engineering

Jason McKenna, D. D. Blackwell	Numerical modeling of transient basin and range extensional geothermal systems
Tatsuya Sato, Kazumi Ohsato, Takahiro Shiga, Masatake Sato, Stephen White.	A study of reservoir estimation for a deep–seated geothermal reservoir using TOUGH2 and CHEMTOUGH2
Alexey Kryukhin, V.A. Yampolski	Modeling study of the Pauzhetsky geothermal field, Kamchatka, Russia
Yvette Ontoy, Phil Molling, Nicolas Spycher, Tianfu Xu, Mauro Parini, Karsten Pruess	Scaling of hot brine injection wells: Supplementing field studies with reactive transport modeling

Session 3.4: Gas Transport and Vadose Zone Hydrology

Alfredo Battistelli, Curt Oldenburg, George Moridis, Karsten Pruess	Modeling gas reservoir processes with TMVOC V.2.0
Julio Garcia, Karsten Pruess	Flow instabilities during injection of CO2 into saline aquifers
Curt Oldenburg, Andre Unger	Coupled subsurface–surface gas transport and dispersion for geologic carbon sequestration seepage simulation
Wenbin Wang, Shlomo Neuman, Tzung-mow Yao, Peter Wierenga	Comparative simulations of a large-scale field infiltration experiment

Session 3.5: Nuclear Waste Isolation

Rick Ahlers, Teamrat Ghezzehei, Stefan Finsterle	Development and testing of a method for efficient simulation of evaporation from a seepage face
Irina Engelhardt	Inverse modeling of gas, water, and heat flow in bentonite/crushed rock backfill
Teamrat Ghezzehei, Stefan Finsterle, Robert Trautz	Evaluating the effectiveness of liquid diversion around an underground opening when evaporation is non–negligible
George Moridis, Yongkoo Seol, Yu–Shu Wu	Modeling studies of mountain–scale radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Andre Unger, Stefan Finsterle, Gudmundur Bodvarsson	Estimating large-scale fractured rock properties from radon data collected in a ventilated tunnel

Session 3.6: Environmental Engineering

Alex Lee

3–D numerical modeling of freshwater lens of atoll islands

Quanlin Zhou,
Jens Birkholzer, Iraj Javandel, Preston Jordan

Simulation of groundwater flow at the LBNL using TOUGH2

Jeongkon Kim, Franklin Schwartz, Tianfu Xu

Modeling the coupling between flow and transport developed by chemical reactions and density differences using TOUGHREACT

Tuesday Morning, May 13, 2003, Building 66 Auditorium

Session 4: Nuclear Waste
Chairman: Alan Flint, U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, California

09:00–09:30	Gudmundur Bodvarsson, Jens Birkholzer, Stefan Finsterle, Hui-Hai Liu, Jonny Rutqvist, Yu-Shu Wu	The use of TOUGH2/iTOUGH2 in support of the Yucca Mountain Project: successes and limitations
09:30–09:50	Rainer Senger, Bill Lanyon, Paul Marschall, Stratis Vomvoris, Kenichi Ando	TOUGH2/iTOUGH2 modeling in support of the gas migration test (GMT) at the Grimsel Test Site (Switzerland)
09:50–10:10	Keni Zhang, Yu–Shu Wu, Chris Ding, Karsten Pruess	TOUGH2_MP: A parallel version of TOUGH2
10:10–10:30	Joachim Poppei, Gerhard Mayer, Jean Croisé	Modelling of resaturation, gas migration and thermal effects in a SF/ILW repository in low-permeability over-consolidated clay-shale
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–11:20	Vijen Javeri	Analysis of nuclide transport including non–linear adsorption depending on variable salinity in the heterogeneous geosphere of the Gorleben channel
11:20–11:40	Yu–Shu Wu, Guoping Lu, Keni Zhang, Bo Bödvarsson	A mountain–scale model for characterizing unsaturated flow and transport in fractured tuffs of Yucca Mountain
11:40–12:00	Jens Birkholzer, Sumit Mukhophadhyay, Yvonne Tsang	Modeling water seepage into heated waste emplacement drifts at Yucca Mountain
12:00–13:30	Lunch Break

Session 5: Mining Engineering
Chairman: Kazumi Osato, Geothermal Energy Research and Development Company (GERD), Tokyo, Japan

13:30–14:00	Stephen White, Ashley Creighton, Paul Bixley, Warwick Kissling	Modeling the dewatering and depressurisation of the Lihir open pit gold mine
14:00–14:20	Yannick Scheid, S. Semprich, A. Chinkulkijniwat	Computation of laboratory test results to estimate the loss of air in compressed air tunnelling
14:20–14:40	Jonny Rutqvist, Chin–Fu Tsang	TOUGH–FLAC: A numerical simulator for analysis of coupled thermal–hydrologic–mechanical processes in fractured rock under multi–phase flow condition
14:40–15:00	Coffee Break

Session 6: Reactive Transport
Chairman: Jens Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

15:00–15:30	Alfredo Battistelli	Modeling the biodegradation of organic contaminants with TMVOCbio
15:30–15:50	Tianfu Xu, Eric Sonnenthal, Nicolas Spycher, Karsten Pruess	TOUGHREACT: A new code of the TOUGH family of non–isothermal multiphase reactive geochemical transport in variably saturated geologic media
15:50–16:10	Michael Singleton, Eric Sonnenthal, Mark Conrad, Don DePaolo	Numerical modeling of stable isotope fractionation and multiphase reactive transport of water and water vapor using TOUGHREACT
16:10–16:30	Stephan Lorenz, W. Müller	Modelling of halite formation in natural gas storage aquifers
16:30–16:50	Eric Sonnenthal, Nicolas Spycher, Tianfu Xu	Linking reaction, transport, and hydrological parameters in unsaturated fractured rock: TOUGHREACT implementation and application
17:30–21:00	Conference Dinner

Wednesday Morning, May 14, 2003, Building 50 Auditorium

Session 7: Environmental Remediation
Chairman:Auli Niemi, Uppsala University, Sweden

08:30–09:00	Ron Falta	Simulation of subgridblock scale DNAPL pool dissolution using a dual domain approach
09:00–09:20	Terhi Kling, J. Korkealaakso	Nonisothermal multiphase modeling as an integration tool in the planning, control and optimization of in situ soil remediation in Sšderkulla, Southern Finland
09:20–09:40	Fritjov Fagerlund, Auli Niemi	Multi–constituent modelling of a gasoline spill using the T2VOC numerical simulator
09:40–10:00	Steve Webb, J. Phelan	Implementation of land surface boundary conditions in TOUGH2
10:00–10:30	Coffee Break

Session 8: Gas Transport
Chairman: Vijen Javeri, Gesellschaft für Anlagen– und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS), Köln, Germany

10:30–11:00	Karsten Pruess	Numerical simulation of leakage from a geologic disposal reservoir for CO2, with transitions between super– and sub–critical conditions
11:00–11:20	Christine Doughty, Karsten Pruess	Modeling supercritical CO2 injection in heterogeneous porous media
11:20–11:40	Curt Oldenburg	Carbon sequestration in natural gas reservoir: Enhanced gas recovery and natural gas storage
11:40–12:00	George Moridis, Timothy Collett	Strategies for gas production from hydrate accumulations under various geological and reservoir conditions
12:00–13:00	Lunch Break

Wednesday Afternoon, May 14, 2003, Building 50 Auditorium

Session 9: Tricks–of–the–Trade
Chairman: Stephen P. White, Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand

13:00–13:30

Karl Taylor (PCMDI)

Evaluation and intercomparison of climate models

13:30–14:45

Participants

Two–slide, three–minute presentations: TOUGH problem—SMART solution

Please inform the Organizing Committee about your contribution to this session or submit short description of TOUGH problem.

14:45–15:00

Coffee Break

Session 10: Panel Discussion
Chairman: Karsten Pruess, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

15:00–16:00

Ron Falta
Alan Flint
George Moridis
Steve Webb
Steve White

Panel discussion

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Monday Morning, May 12, 2003, Building 66 Auditorium

Monday Evening, May 12, 2003, Cafeteria