Modelling data for assessing potential of available minerals and reactor schemes (NERC Grant NE/P01982X/1)

The data set contains two separate items: (1) Global carbon dioxide removal potential of mine tailings, which includes (a) List of selected silicate-hosted mine tailings (classified by their targeted commodity and typical host rock) for initial assessment of CO2 removal (CDR) potential; (b) Estimated annual and cumulative production (Mt) of suitable tailings for host countries for the years 2030-2100; (c) Assessed deposit types and associated tailings mineralogies; (d) Summary kinetic data for typical targetable minerals in suitable tailings; (e) Effects of mineral compositional (and end member) variations on dissolution rates under unimproved conditions (Wr-Neut); (f) All compiled mineral data used in the GGREW global assessment study and other complimentary GGREW studies; (g) Estimates of dissolution extent over time (on decadal timescales of up to 70 years) for a theoretical 1 kg of tailings material at typical grain sizes and unimproved conditions (using Wr-Neut); (h) Total cumulative CDR (tCDR; MtCO2 as alkalinity); (i) Estimated CDR capacity (cumulative for the estimated annual tailings production at 2030 (sCDR) and total cumulative CDR (tCDR) as alkalinity for 2050 and 2100) for select countries that produce and host suitable tailings; (j) CDR achieved annually by country (2030-2100), under unimproved and improved conditions; and (k) Sources of information for modal mineralogies, commodity production to tailings production ratios and typical grain sizes for each potentially suitable tailings material type. (2) Results of enhanced weathering reactor optimisation with two objectives, namely energy consumption and space (area) requirement, which include the optimisation output for calcite weathering using trickle-bed reactor, calcite weathering using packed-bubble column and forsterite weathering using packed-bubble column. For each of them, the data includes key reactor design parameters, the two objectives, and key process characteristics (particularly, mass transfer performance and mineral dissolution rates).

Date (Creation): 2022-10-10

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607983

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Oxford	Professor Gideon Henderson	not available	Principal investigator
University of Oxford	Aidong Yang	not available	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

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Language: English

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Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2018-09-01

End date: 2022-03-31

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

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	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item176371	Data

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Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: (1) Global carbon dioxide removal potential of mine tailings: Tailings production tonnages were estimated for materials deemed potentially suitable, based on modal mineralogy which determines the theoretical maximum CDR potential. The inferred geochemical CDR capacity of each material and country is based on shrinking core modelling that considers the starting grain size, modal mineralogy and mineral dissolution rates. (2) Results of enhanced weathering reactor optimisation: Mechanistic models were combined with a surrogate modelling-based optimisation procedure to allow each reactor type to be rigorously optimised for minimising two competing objectives, namely energy consumption and space requirement. References: Bullock et al. Science of the Total Environment 808 (2022) 152111; Xing et al. Aiche Journal. 67.5 (2021); Xing et al. Chem. Eng. Journal. 431 (2022) 134096.