Poojitha D. Yapa

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering

Clarkson University

Impact of Carbon Dioxide Release in Ocean

The possibility of sequestering CO2 underwater has generated a considerable interest in studying the impact of CO2 releases. The problem has been studied by many with regards to underwater releases of CO2 in liquid, hydrate, or gaseous form. . Previous studies can be roughly categorized into multiple areas: fate (phase changes and dissolution into water) of a single bubble; small amounts released; and releases of large amounts that emanated as a plume in one phase or another. Figure 1 shows that CO2 is discharged from resavoirs under the seabed,where gas bubbles rise, advect and dissolve into the Ocean.

Results and a description of the CO2 model can be seen in here.