Natural hydromagnesite (Mg-5(CO3)(4)(OH)(2)center dot 4H(2)O) dissolution and precipitation experiments were performed in closed-system reactors as a function of temperature from 22.5 to 75 degrees C and at 8.6 < pH < 10.7. The equilibrium constants for the reaction Mg-5(CO3)(4)(OH)(2)center dot 4H(2)O + 6H(+) - 5Mg(2+) + 4HCO(3)(-) + 6H(2)O were determined by bracketing the final fluid compositions obtained from the dissolution and precipitation experiments. The resulting constants were found to be 10 (33.7 +/- 0.9), 10(30.5 +/- 0.5) and 10(26.5 +/- 0.5) at 22.5, 50 and 75 degrees C, respectively. Whereas dissolution rates were too fast to be determined from the experiments, precipitation rates were slower and quantified. The resulting BET surface area-normalized hydromagnesite precipitation rates increase by a factor of similar to 2 with pH decreasing from 10.7 to 8.6. Measured rates are approximately two orders of magnitude faster than corresponding forsterite dissolution rates, suggesting that the overall rates of the low-temperature carbonation of olivine are controlled by the relatively sluggish dissolution of the magnesium silicate mineral.
- FORSTERITE DISSOLUTION RATES
- CARBFIX PILOT PROJECT
- CO2 SEQUESTRATION
- CARBON-DIOXIDE
- MINERAL CARBONATION
- THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
- CALCITE PRECIPITATION
- KINETICS
- TEMPERATURE
- OLIVINE
[Berninger, U-N.; Schott, J.; Oelkers, E. H.] CNRS UPS OMP, Geosci Environm Toulouse, F-31400 Toulouse, France; [Berninger, U-N.; Jordan, G.] LMU, Dept Geo & Umweltwissensch, D-80333 Munich, Germany; [Oelkers, E. H.] UCL, Dept Earth Sci, London WC1E 6BT, England
Berninger, UN (reprint author), CNRS UPS OMP, Geosci Environm Toulouse, 14 Ave Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France.
- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), UMR5563
- Observatoire midi-Pyrénées (OMP), UMS831