Heterogeneous Wettability Alters Methane Migration and Leakage in Shallow Aquifers.

Sabber Khandoozi, Siddharth Gautam, Craig Dietsch, Muhammad Sahimi, David Cole, Reza Soltanian

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sabber KhandooziDepartment of Geosciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9757-0664

Siddharth GautamSchool of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1443-5382

Craig DietschDepartment of Geosciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States.

Muhammad SahimiMork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, California 90089-1211, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8009-542X

David ColeSchool of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States.

Reza SoltanianDepartment of Geosciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States.

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Abstract

Capillary heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a first-order control of gas plume migration and trapping in aquifers and storage formations. We show that spatial variability in the water-methane contact angle, set by mineralogy and salinity, reshapes capillary entry pressures and, in turn, migration pathways. Using molecular dynamics simulation, we estimate contact angles on quartz and kaolinite under fresh and saline conditions and embed these results in continuum-scale multiphase flow simulations via a contact-angle-informed Leverett

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GroundwaterMethaneWettabilityMolecular Dynamics SimulationMethaneatmospheric methane emissionscapillary heterogeneityfugitive methane leakageheterogeneous wettabilitymolecular dynamics

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PMID41889319

DOI10.1021/acs.est.5c15451

PMCPMC13063803

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