| Phase: |
Theme |
| Theme: | Carbon CUS (T02) |
| Status: | Active |
| Start Date: | 2024-04-01 |
| End Date: | 2026-03-31 |
| Principal Investigator |
| Zhang, Bo |
Project Overview
This project has two themes that aims to provide meaningful research outcomes for the scale-up of the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), including (1) evaluation and optimization of CO2 plume geothermal (CPG) system in deep sedimentary reservoirs; and (2) development of a cloud-based data-driven modelling, optimization, and decision-making system for subsurface energy development (GeoCloud). Theme 1 is anticipated to address the challenge that brine-based geothermal system is not particularly economic in the deep sedimentary reservoirs in Canada. DEEP Geothermal Corp. has raised and received $50 M funding to build >100 MW geothermal power facilities; thus, they are motivated to investigate the feasibility of CPG operation in southern Saskatchewan and implement CPG in the DEEP geothermal projects. Alberta Innovates will support theme 2, focusing on developing a data-driven decision-support platform using geophysical, geological and multimodal sensing data for CCUS value chain.
Outputs
| Title |
Category |
Date |
Authors |
| Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Graduate Award | Award | 2024-10-01 | Walid Ben Saleh |
| Coupled Flow-Geomechanics Surrogate Model with Flexible Boundary Conditions for Geological CO2 Storage Using Fourier Neural Operator Based Gated Recurrent Network University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-03-18 | Shuxin Qiao, Walid Ben Saleh, Zhang, B. |
| Smart Coupled Flow-Geomechanical Upscaling Technique for Oil Sands University of Alberta | Publication | 2024-11-18 | Xiaoyan Ou, Shuxin Qiao, Zhang, B. |
| Development of a convolutional neural network based geomechanical upscaling technique for heterogeneous geological reservoir University of Alberta | Publication | 2024-06-01 | Zhiwei Ma, Xiaoyan Ou, Zhang, B. |
| Reducing geological uncertainty through coupled flow-geomechanics based surrogate models and rejection sampling of CO2 plume prediction University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-03-01 | Walid Ben Saleh, Zhang, B. |
