| Monday, May 15, 2006, Morning Sessions |
| 7:30 |
Registration, Building 50 Auditorium Foyer |
| Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:30 am |
Welcome |
Bo Bodvarsson, Director, Earth Sciences Division, LBNL |
| 8:35 am |
Opening Remarks |
Karsten Pruess |
| 8:45 am |
Announcements |
Organizing Committee |
| Environmental Engineering |
| Session Chair: Ronald Falta |
| 9:00 am |
Modeling Organic Spills in Coastal Sites with TMVOC V.2.0 |
Alfredo Battistelli (Snamprogetti SpA, Fano, Italy) |
| 9:25 am |
Multiphase Modeling and Inversion Methods for Controlling Landfill Bioreactor |
Terhi Kling, Juhani Korkealaakso (Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT, Finland) |
| 9:50 am |
Radionuclide Transport through a Low-Permeability Natural Gas Reservoir |
Clay Cooper, Ming Ye, Jenny Chapman (Desert Research Institute) |
| 10:15 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am |
Modeling Kinetic Interphase Mass Transfer During Field Scale Air Sparging Operations with a Dual Domain Approach |
Darby VanAntwerp, Ron Falta (Clemson University, Clemson, SC) |
| 11:10 am |
Modeling NAPL Source Zone Formation in Stochastically Heterogeneous Layered Media - a Comparison with Experimental Results |
Fritjof Fagerlund, Auli Niemi (Uppsala University, Sweden), Tissa Illangasekare (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO) |
| 11:35 am |
TOUGH+GasH2O Study of the Effects of a Heat Source Buried in the Martian Permafrost |
George Moridis, Karsten Pruess (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| 12:00 noon |
Lunch, LBNL Cafeteria |
| Monday, May 15, 2006, Afternoon Sessions |
| Geothermal Reservoir Engineering |
| Session Chair: Mario César Suárez Arriaga |
| 1:30 pm |
Applying the Hengill Geothermal Reservoir Model
in Power Plant Decision Making and Environmental Impact Studies |
Grímur Björnsson, Einar Gunnlaugsson (Reykjavik Energy, Iceland), Arnar Hjartarson (Iceland Geosurvey, Iceland) |
| 1:55 pm |
Evaluation of C-14 as a Natural Tracer for Injected
Fluids at the Aidlin Sector of the Geysers Geothermal System through
Modeling of Mineral-Water-Gas Reactions |
Patrick Dobson, Eric Sonnenthal, Jennifer Lewicki,
Mack Kennedy (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| 2:20 pm |
Shear Slip Analysis in Multi-Phase Fluid Flow Reservoir Engineering Applications Using TOUGH-FLAC |
Jonny Rutqvist (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| 2:45 pm |
Modeling of Gas Composition and Gravity Signals at the Phlegrean Fields Caldera |
Micol Todesco, Giovanni Chiodini, Giovanna Berrino (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy) |
| 3:10 pm |
Coffee Break |
| Geotechnical Engineering |
| Session Chair: Julio Garcia |
| 3:40 pm |
Flooding
of an Abandoned Salt Mine – Modeling Two-Phase Flow in Complex
Mine Structures |
Joachim Poppei, Gerhard Mayer, Nicolas Hubschwerlen, Georg Resele (Colenco Power Engineering Ltd., Baden, Switzerland) |
| 4:05 pm |
ASCATA - A TOUGH2 Based Program for Automated Simulation of Compressed Air Tunnel Advance |
Gerhard Steger, Stephan Semprich (TU Graz, Austria) |
| 4:30 pm |
Enhanced Seepage and its Effect on Slope Stability under Torrential Precipitate during Flood Discharge Event on a Large Hydroelectric Station |
Mo Xu1, Banyan Mao1, Guoping Lu2, Qiang Zhang1 (1 Chengdu University, Chengdu, China; 2 LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| 4:55 pm |
The Lihir Open Pit Gold Mine Revisited |
Stephen White, John Burnell (Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand), Markos Melaku, Roy Johnstone (Lihir Management Company Ltd, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) |
| Monday, May 15, 2006, Evening Poster Session and Reception |
| Session Chair: Nicholaus Halecky |
| Carbon Dioxide Storage and Gas Hydrates |
| P1 |
System-Level Modeling for Geological CO2 Storage |
Yingqi Zhang, Curt Oldenburg, Stefan Finsterle, Bo Bodvarsson (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P2 |
Sequestration of CO2 in the Altmark Natural Gas Field, Germany: Mobility Control to Extend Enhanced Gas Recovery |
Dorothee Rebscher1, F. May2, Curtis Oldenburg1 (1LBNL, Berkeley, CA; 2Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover, Germany) |
| P3 |
Comparison of Kinetic and Equilibrium Reaction Models in Simulating the Behavior of Gas Hydrates in Porous Media |
Michael Kowalsky, George Moridis (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P4 |
Depressurization-Induced Gas Production from Class 1 and Class 2 Hydrate Deposits |
George Moridis, Michael Kowalsky (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P5 |
Relative Permeability Estimates for Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sand |
Yongkoo Seol, Timothy Kneafsey, Liviu Tomutsa,
George Moridis (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| Computation Methods, Pre- and Post-Processing |
| P6 |
Efficient Scheme for Reducing Numerical Dispersion in Modeling Multiphase Chemical Transport in Porous and Fractured Media |
Yu-Shu Wu (LBNL, Berkeley, CA), Peter Forsyth (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) |
| P7 |
Enhancing Scalability and Efficiency of TOUGH_MP for Linux Clusters |
Keni Zhang, Yu-Shu Wu (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P8 |
Using PetraSim to Create, Execute, and Post-Process TOUGH2 Models |
Alison Alcott (RockWare Inc., Golden CO), Daniel Swenson, Brian Hardeman (Thunderhead Engineering, Manhattan, KS) |
| P9 |
Some Topological Aspects of (Un)Structured Generation of Meshes: A Possible Enhancement of Meshmaker in TOUGH |
Juan Carlos Díaz Patiño,Ricardo Pacheco, Mario César Suárez Arriaga (Michoacán University, México) |
| P10 |
TOUGH+: The New Generation of Object-Oriented Family of Codes for the Solution of Problems of Flow and Transport in the Subsurface |
George Moridis, Michael Kowalsky, Stefan Finsterle, Karsten Pruess (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P11 |
IGGI, A Computing Framework for Large Scale Parametric Simulations: Application to Uncertainty Analysis with TOUGHREACT |
Fabrice Dupros, F. Boulahy, J. Vairon (BRGM, Orléans, France), P. Lombard (ICATIS, Meylan, France), N. Capit, J-F. Méhaut (Laboratoire ID-IMAG, Montbonnot Saint Martin, France) |
| Reactive Geochemistry and Environmental Engineering |
| P12 |
Simulation of Salt Water Intrusion |
Kenzi Karasaki (LBNL, Berkeley,CA) |
| P13 |
The Relative Importance of Variable Water Infiltration Rate and Geological Heterogeneity for Three-Phase TCE Transport in a Porous Medium |
Hanna Zandin, Auli Niemi (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden) |
| P14 |
Implementation of the Pitzer Activity Model into TOUGHREACT for Modeling Concentrated Solutions |
Guoxiang Zhang, Nic Spycher, Eric Sonnenthal, Carl Steefel (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P15 |
Modeling of the Laboratory Experiments Interaction of the Hot NaNO3-NaOH Brine with Sandstone Rocks from Deep Radionuclide Repository Site, Using TOUGHREACT |
Alexey Kiryukhin (Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Kamchatsky, Russia), E. P. Kaymin, E. V. Zakharova (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia), A. A. Graphchikov (Institute of Mieralogy, Chernogolovka, Russia), A. A. Zubkov (Siberia Chemical Plant, Severesk, Russia) |
| P16 |
Simulation of the Effects of Hydrophilic Polymer Adsorption on Two-Phase Flow of Oil-Water Mixtures |
Michele Carpita, Marica Marcolini, Alfredo Battistelli (Snamprogetti SpA, Fano, Italy) |
| Geothermal Reservoir Engineering |
| P17 |
Modeling the Pauzhetsky Geothermal Field, Kamchatka, Russia, Using iTOUGH2 |
A. V. Kiryukhin1, N. P. Asaulova2, S. Finsterle3, T. V. Rychkova1, N. Obora2 (21Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Kamchatsky, Russia; 2Kamchatskburgeotemia Enterprize, Kamchatka, Russia; 3LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P18 |
TOUGH and the Boundary Element Method in the Estimation of the Natural State of Geothermal Submarine Systems |
Mario César Suárez Arriaga (Michoacán University, México), Fernando Samaniego (National University of México, México) |
| P19 |
Modeling of Helium and Heat Transport in an Extensional Basin Using the Noble Gas Module EOSN in TOUGH2 |
Judy Andrews, Martin Saar (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN) |
| Nuclear Waste |
| P20 |
Three Dimensional Analyses of Coupled Gas, Heat and Nuclide Transport in a Repository Including Rock Salt Convergence |
Vijen Javeri (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH, Köln, Germany) |
| P21 |
Design and Analysis of a Gas Threshold Pressure Test in a Low-Permeability Clay at ANDRA's Underground Research Laboratory, Bure (France) |
Rainer Senger (INTERA Inc., Austin, TX), Cristian Enachescu (Golder Associates GmbH, Celle, Germany), Thomas Doe (Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, WA), Marc Distinguin, Jacques Delay (Andra, France) |
| P22 |
A Coupled Model for Natural Convection in Heated Subsurface Enclosures Embedded in Fractured Rock: TOUGH2 Enhancements and Simulation Examples |
Nicholaus Halecky1,3, Jens Birkholzer1, Steve Webb2, P. F. Peterson3, Bo Bodvarsson1 (1LBNL, Berkeley, CA; 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM; 3University of California, Berkeley, CA) |
| P23 |
Modifying TOUGH2 to Support Modeling of Gas Transport through Saturated Compacted Bentonite as Part of the Large-Scale Gas Injection Test (LASGIT) in Sweden |
Nicola Calder, John Avis, Rainer Senger (INTERA Engineering Ltd., Ottawa, Canada), Helen Leung (Ontario Power Generation, Toronto, Canada) |
| Vadose Zone and Fracture Hydrology |
| P24 |
Coupling TOUGH2 with CLM3: Developing a Coupled Land Surface and Subsurface Model |
Lehua Pan, Jiming Jin, Norm Miller, Yu-Shu Wu, Bo Bodvarsson (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) |
| P25 |
Validation of the Active Fracture Model for Unsaturated Flow in Heterogeneous Fractured Rock Using Numerical Experiments |
Quanlin Zhou (ETIC Engineering Inc., Oakland, CA) |
| P26 |
Numerical Simulation and Parameter Estimation Using Borehole Flowmeter Logging in Low Permeability Rocks |
Kazumasa Ito, Naoto Takeno, Yoji Seki, Kazuki Naito, and Yoshio Watanabe (AIST, Japan) |
| P27 |
Modeling of Physical Observations of Water Diversion in a Capillary Barrier Using a Centrifuge |
Hideo Nakajima (Research Center for Deep Geological Environments, Tsukuba, Japan), Julio Garcia (ETIC Engineering, Oakland Inc., CA), Robert Podgorney (INL, Idaho Falls, ID) |
