Tsuji, Takeshi (PI)

Underground Storage
Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)

CO₂ storage, Geothermal power, Earthquake

Professor & Principal Investigator

Research Thrust : Multiscale Science and Engineering for Energy and the Environment Thrust
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Website : https://tsuji-lab.jp/

Research Outline

Develop a method to continuously monitor CO₂ storage reservoir using a portable active seismic source (Portable Active Seismic Source: PASS) and distributed acoustic sensing (Distributed Acoustic Sensing: DAS)

Develop a method to accurately predict the behavior of stored CO₂ based on numerical simulations to digitized rock models. Predict long-term CO₂ behaviors, such as CO₂ mineralization process, and establish schemes to model CO₂ behavior under various subsurface conditions.

Estimate earthquake activities around the CO₂ storage and geothermal fields. Distinguish artificial earthquakes induced by CO₂ storage from natural earthquakes.

Research Methods and Facilities

Provide continuous monitoring technology for geological formation in CO₂ storage projects and geothermal power projects.
Provide modeling technology for multiphase flow behavior such as CO₂-water within storage reservoir or within membranes. We called the technology as digital rock physical chemistry.
Consider a quantitative method to distinguish induced earthquakes from natural earthquakes.

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Research Methods and Facilities