Dr. Neeraj Gupta
Senior Research Leader, Energy Systems and Carbon Management
Dr. Neeraj Gupta is a Senior Research Leader in the Battelle’s Energy Technology Global Business. He provides technical and strategic leadership for Battelle’s work on geologic storage of carbon dioxide. Dr. Gupta plays a key role in several public and private projects, including geologic storage assessment at AEP Mountaineer Project and coordination of field demonstrations under the Midwestern Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP). Dr. Gupta has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Geology from Panjab University, India, a Master’s degree in Geochemistry, George Washington University, and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences with emphasis on Hydrogeology from The Ohio State University.
Field Testing – The Laboratory for Geologic Storage of CO2
This presentation will summarize the field validation tests being conducted in the Midwestern US, under the MRCSP, one of seven partnerships under the Department of Energy’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (RCSP) Program and other projects. Covering a nine state region that includes parts of Indiana and Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, the MRCSP is building a knowledge base of CO2 sources and sinks (geologic and terrestrial) to support implementation of carbon sequestration in the region. Over the past four years the MRCSP has conducted three CO2 injection projects into deep saline formations representative of the region’s geologic diversity. The three competed three deep saline injection projects include injection into the Bass Island Dolomite formation in Otsego County, Michigan. About 60,000 metric tons of CO2 have been injected into this formation by the MRCSP in two campaigns during 2008 and 2009. In another test completed in September 2009, MRCSP injected about 1000 tons of CO2 into the Mount Simon Sandstone in the Cincinnati Arch region. Earlier, MRCSP conducted injection tests into three separate formations in a single 8000 foot deep injection well in the Appalachian Basin near the town of Shadyside, Ohio, an area of high power generation intensity along the Ohio River Valley.