Liquid CO2 injection for geological storage in deep saline aquifers

V.V. wishes to acknowledge the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCI), through the “Formacion de Profesorado Universitario” Program, and the “Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos – Catalunya” for their financial support. This work has been funded by Fundacion Ciudad de la Energia (Spanish Government) (www.ciuden.es) through the project ALM/09/018 and by the European Union through the “European Energy Programme for Recovery” and the Compostilla OXYCFB300 project. We also want to acknowledge the financial support received from the ‘MUSTANG’ (www.co2mustang.eu) and ‘PANACEA’ (www.panacea-co2.org) projects (from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under grant agreements nos. 227286 and 282900, respectively).

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