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High Pressure Research
An International Journal
Volume 44, 2024 - Issue 1
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Raman spectroscopic characterization of the CO2-N2 gaseous system at 24–300°C and 2–40 MPa and applications

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Pages 1-24 | Received 18 Jul 2023, Accepted 06 Nov 2023, Published online: 26 Dec 2023
 

ABSTRACT

CO2 and N2 are important gas components of deep-sourced geological fluids. To establish a quantitative method for the study of these fluids, we used a high-pressure optical cell, a heating–cooling stage, and a laser Raman spectrometer to examine pure CO2 and N2 gases and nine CO2-N2 gaseous mixtures at 24–300°C and 2–40 MPa. The results show that the CO2 Fermi diad split and the peak area ratios of the ν1 band of N2 to the upper band of CO2 are considered to be the best for determining pressure and composition, respectively. The quantitative Raman analysis method developed in this study for the determination of the CN2/CCO2 molar ratio was verified by measuring those in synthetic N2-CO2-H2O fluid inclusions. The developed method has also been applied to the analysis of natural fluid inclusions in quartz from Donghai for the determination of both the CN2/CCO2 molar ratio and pressure.

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Yanbin Wang for the careful editorial handling and an anonymous reviewer for the insightful and constructive suggestions, which greatly helped to improve the manuscript. Special thanks go to Dr. Nanfei Cheng for critical reading and comment on early versions of the manuscript. We are indebted to Dr. Li Xu for providing Donghai quartz crystals with CO2-N2-bearing fluid inclusions. We thank Dr. Jing Fang for frank discussion and useful information on the experimental setup. Dr. Ying Chen and Maokang Hu are acknowledged for their help in the experimental methods. Dr. Ye Wan is thanked for proofreading the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant numbers 42130109 and 41973055; and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province of China under grant number 423MS106.

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