ad-micp: A module to study CO2 leakage remediation by microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP)

Description

MICP is a new and sustainable technology which utilizes biochemical processes to create barriers by calcium carbonate cementation; therefore, this technology has a potential to be used for sealing leakage zones in geological formations. We have implemented a mathematical model for MICP suitable for field-scale studies. Further information on the mathematical model can be found in the two publications [A, B] in the "Cite" part of this README.

The numerical examples accompanying this module are:

• runMICP1DCase.m and
• runMICP3DCase.m.

In addition, this module includes scripts to run the studies in [A, B], see the publications folder.

The ad-micp module is compatible with the (freely available) MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) provided by SINTEF Digital, see http://www.sintef.no/projectweb/mrst/.

See the Wiki for an extended description, information regarding changes respect to previous releases, and using this module in macOS with GNU Octave.

Requirements

• MRST (Tested version: mrst-2025b)
• MATLAB (Tested version: R2025b) or GNU Octave (Tested version: 10.3.0)

Installation (MATLAB/GNU Octave)

The ad-micp module is included in MRST, click this link to see the version of ad-micp included.

If you are interested in using the ad-micp module from the edge version, this can be achieved by the following steps:

# Clone MRST
git clone https://github.com/SINTEF-AppliedCompSci/MRST.git
# Get inside the modules folder
cd MRST/modules
# Remove the ad-micp folder from the MRST folder
rm -rf ad-micp
# Clone the ad-micp repo
git clone https://github.com/daavid00/ad-micp.git
# Get inside the ad-micp folder
cd ad-micp

Then you can try to run the test_runMICP1DCase.m using octave (octave can be installed by executing brew install octave):

octave tests/test_runMICP1DCase.m

Getting started

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvz3bV4QgxM.

Cite

If you use ad-micp to write a scientific publication, please cite one of the following papers:

• [A] Landa-Marbán, D., Tveit, S., Kumar, K., Gasda, S.E., 2021. Practical approaches to study microbially induced calcite precipitation at the field scale. Int. J. Greenh. Gas Control 106, 103256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103256.
• [B] Landa-Marbán, D., Kumar, K., Tveit, S., Gasda, S.E. Numerical studies of CO2 leakage remediation by micp-based plugging technology. In: Røkke, N.A. and Knuutila, H.K. (Eds) Short Papers from the 11th International Trondheim CCS conference, ISBN: 978-82-536-1714-5, 284-290.

Related

Below are some tools that might be of interest; check ‘em out 🙂.

• py-micp: An open-source simulation workflow for field-scale application of microbially induced calcite precipitation technology for leakage remediation (https://github.com/daavid00/py-micp).
• pyopmspe11: A Python framework using OPM Flow for the CSP SPE11 benchmark project (https://github.com/OPM/pyopmspe11).
• pycopm: An open-source tool to tailor OPM Flow geological models (https://github.com/cssr-tools/pycopm).
• plopm: Quick generation of PNGs, GIFs, and VTKs from a OPM Flow type model (https://github.com/cssr-tools/plopm).
• pofff: An open-source image-based history-matching framework for the FluidFlower benchmark study using OPM Flow (https://github.com/cssr-tools/pofff).
• pyopmnearwell: A Python framework to simulate near well dynamics using OPM Flow (https://github.com/cssr-tools/pyopmnearwell).
• expreccs: A Python framework using OPM Flow to simulate regional and site reservoirs for CO2 storage (https://github.com/cssr-tools/expreccs).
• pymm: An open-source image-based framework for CFD in microsystems (https://github.com/cssr-tools/pymm).

Contact

David Landa-Marbán (dmar@norceresearch.no).