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Main Authors: Latrach, Abdeldjalil, Jackson, Lily, Rabiei, Minou
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13323
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author Latrach, Abdeldjalil
Jackson, Lily
Rabiei, Minou
author_facet Latrach, Abdeldjalil
Jackson, Lily
Rabiei, Minou
contents The solubility of CO2 in formation brines plays a critical role in the efficiency of carbon capture and storage (CCS) operations. It is strongly influenced by pressure, temperature, and brine composition. Various experimental studies and modeling approaches have been developed to estimate CO2 solubility under wide ranges of pressure, temperature, and salinities. This work makes three key contributions. First, we present an extensive literature review of experimental, theoretical, and simulation-based approaches for measuring and predicting CO2 solubility across a wide range of conditions and also a discussion of how the different parameters affect solubility. Second, we introduce an improved set of temperature-dependent Pitzer interaction parameters, yielding up to a 76% reduction in average absolute deviation compared to conventional values in the geochemical simulation software PHREEQC. Third, we develop a physics-informed machine learning model that integrates thermodynamic intuition with data-driven learning, achieving a 14% reduction in prediction error over the state-of-the-art and up to 40% improvement at high salinities. Together, these advances provide a robust and accurate framework for predicting CO2 solubility, supporting more reliable CCS design and deployment.
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spellingShingle Enhanced Prediction of CO2 Solubility under Geological Conditions for CCUS via Improved Pitzer Parameters and Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Latrach, Abdeldjalil
Jackson, Lily
Rabiei, Minou
Chemical Physics
The solubility of CO2 in formation brines plays a critical role in the efficiency of carbon capture and storage (CCS) operations. It is strongly influenced by pressure, temperature, and brine composition. Various experimental studies and modeling approaches have been developed to estimate CO2 solubility under wide ranges of pressure, temperature, and salinities. This work makes three key contributions. First, we present an extensive literature review of experimental, theoretical, and simulation-based approaches for measuring and predicting CO2 solubility across a wide range of conditions and also a discussion of how the different parameters affect solubility. Second, we introduce an improved set of temperature-dependent Pitzer interaction parameters, yielding up to a 76% reduction in average absolute deviation compared to conventional values in the geochemical simulation software PHREEQC. Third, we develop a physics-informed machine learning model that integrates thermodynamic intuition with data-driven learning, achieving a 14% reduction in prediction error over the state-of-the-art and up to 40% improvement at high salinities. Together, these advances provide a robust and accurate framework for predicting CO2 solubility, supporting more reliable CCS design and deployment.
title Enhanced Prediction of CO2 Solubility under Geological Conditions for CCUS via Improved Pitzer Parameters and Physics-Informed Machine Learning
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13323