GWB in the environmental, mining and petroleum industries

The Geochemist's Workbench has application in numerous industries, including environmental protection and remediation, petroleum, and economic geology. Some of the more common applications of the GWB are listed below.

Environmental Protection and Remediation
Mining
Petroleum

GWB in Environmental Protection and Remediation

The Geochemist's Workbench has the following applications in the environmental industry:

Migration of landfill leachate
Acid rock drainage
Metal mobility
Redox control on solute mobility
Solute attenuation
Nuclear waste storage
CO2 sequestration (Carbon capture and storage)

Subsurface injection of caustic pesticide wastes into dolomite host, causing formation deterioration, and replacement of dolomite by calcite and brucite.

GWB in Mining

The Geochemist's Workbench is used in the mining industry for the following applications:

Acid rock chemistry prediction
Leach fluid design
Tailings effluent composition
Pit lake chemistry
Metal mobility

A more detailed example of how the GWB can be used in uranium solution mining (ISR) can be found here.

Oxygen activity vs. pH mosaic diagram for the arsenic-sulfur system at 100C showing the importance of orpiment and realgar under reducing conditions

GWB in Petroleum

The Geochemist's Workbench has the following applications within the Petroleum industry:

Scaling predictions
Reservoir souring
Flooding simulations
Formation damage
Frac jobs
Fluid compatibility

Sulfate scaling resulting from seawater injection

The Geochemist's Workbench

Before you order!

Pricing is as follows:

Other useful details:

GWB Std and Pro licenses include a hardcopy documentation set, which consist of the Essentials Guide, Reaction Modeling Guide, Reactive Transport Modeling Guide and Reference Manual. GWB Essentials comes with PDF copies of the 4 manuals. Extra hardcopy documentation sets can be purchased for $79 (see pricing).
One copy of the textbook "Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling" (Craig M. Bethke, 2008) is included with every GWB Std and Pro license. Additional copies can be purchased from Amazon.
Academic discounts for GWB Std and Pro require that you complete a copy of the GWB academic qualification form. Guidelines for qualification are listed here. Please email gwb@rockware.com for a copy of the form.

Annual 10-seat classroom licenses now available for $200!

Must be installed on 10 computers in the same labroom
Can only be used for classroom purposes, not for research
Can be renewed annually provided faculty copy is kept current with latest version


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