TOUGHREACT Course Information
TOUGHREACT Training Course for Scientists and Engineers
A TOUGHREACT beginner's training course will be held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, December 4-5, 2008. The cost is $750 for non-students and $400 for students. Note that space is limited and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Background of TOUGHREACT
TOUGHREACT is a numerical simulation program for chemically reactive non-isothermal flows of multiphase fluids in porous and fractured media. The program is written in Fortran 77 and was developed by introducing reactive chemistry into the multiphase flow code TOUGH2 V2. Interactions between mineral assemblages and fluids can occur under local equilibrium or kinetic rates. The gas phase can be chemically active. Precipitation and dissolution reactions can change formation porosity and permeability.
The TOUGHREACT program is distributed to the public through the US Department of Energy's Energy Science and Technology Software Center (email: ). A comprehensive user's guide is available, including worked sample problems addressing geothermal reservoirs and hydrothermal systems, nuclear waste isolation, groundwater quality, sequestration of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers, and supergene copper enrichment. Additional information is available on the TOUGHREACT homepage.
Course Information
The course will cover the physical and chemical processes modeled by TOUGHREACT, will summarize the mathematical and numerical methods used, and will provide in-depth discussion and guidance for applying TOUGHREACT to a variety of flow problems. Preparation of input data and interpretation of simulation results will be discussed for problems in groundwater quality, nuclear waste isolation, production from and injection into geothermal reservoirs, and geologic sequestration of greenhouse gases. The goal of the course is to provide hands-on computing experience to enable participants to become active TOUGHREACT users.
Course Requirements
We will assume that participants have some familiarity and experience with multiphase flow in general and TOUGH2 in particular, as well as numerical modeling experience for batch geochemistry in geologic media. People interested in TOUGHREACT who do not have prior TOUGH2 experience are strongly urged to register for Part 1 as well.
Material to be Distributed During the Course
Course attendees will be provided with the necessary course materials, including handouts of presentations and a User's Manual, and will be given access to computers on which the code is pre-installed (and compiled with the appropriate EOS modules).
Software Availability
Note that the cost of obtaining software licenses for participants' home institutes is not included in the cost of the training course. TOUGHREACT is not sold by the Berkeley Lab, but can be licensed directly from the Energy Science and Technology Software Center, P.O. Box 1020, 175 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-1020, Tel.:(865) 576-2606, .
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