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Al-Yaseri, Ahmed; Wolff-Boenisch, Domenik; Fauziah, Cut Aja; Iglauer, Stefan
International journal of hydrogen energy, 10/2021, Volume: 46, Issue: 69Journal Article
This study investigates the ability of hydrogen (H2) to wet clay surfaces in the presence of brine, with implications for underground hydrogen storage in clay-containing reservoirs. Rather than measuring contact angles directly with hydrogen gas, a suite of other gases (carbon dioxide (CO2), argon (Ar), nitrogen (N2), and helium (He)) were employed in the gas-brine-clay system under storage conditions (moderate temperature (333 K) and high pressures (5, 10, 15, and 20 MPa)), characteristic of a subsurface environment with a shallow geothermal gradient. By virtue of analogies to H2 and empirical correlations, wettabilities of hydrogen on three clay surfaces were mathematically derived and interpreted. The three clays were kaolinite, illite, and montmorillonite and represent 1:1, 2:1 non-expansive, and 2:1 expansive clay groups, respectively. All clays showed water-wetting behaviour with contact angles below 40° under all experimental set-ups. It follows that the presence of clays in the reservoir (or caprock) is conducive to capillary and/or residual trapping of the gas. Another positive inference is that any tested gas, particularly nitrogen, is suitable as cushion gas to maintain formation pressure during hydrogen storage because they all turned out to be more gas-wetting than hydrogen on the clay surfaces; this allows easier displacement and/or retrieval of hydrogen during injection/production. One downside of the predominant water wettability of the clays is the upstaged role of biogeochemical reactions at the wetted brine-clay/silicate interface and their potential to affect porosity and permeability. Water-wetting decreased from kaolinite as most water-wetting clay over illite to montmorillonite as most hydrogen-wetting clay. Their wetting behaviour is consistent with molecular dynamic modelling that establishes that the accessible basal plane of kaolinite's octahedral sheet is highly hydrophilic and enables strong hydrogen bonds whereas the same octahedral sheet in illite and montmorillonite is not accessible to the brine, rendering these clays less water-wetting. •Determination of contact angles for the clay-brine-H2 system; studied clays were kaolinite, illite, and montmorillonite.•Wettabilities change as function of clay type.•Kaolinite is most water-wet, followed by illite and finally montomorillonite, which is only moderately water-wet.•Octahedral clay sheet (the ‘O’ in ‘TO’ and ‘TOT’) is reasoned to cause varying water-wetting character of the clays.•Presence of clays in reservoir/caprock will help in capillary and/or residual trapping of hydrogen.
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