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Microbial enhanced oil recovery : a pore-scale investigation of interfacial interactions

Creator:: Armstrong, Ryan T.
Abstract:: Current oil production technologies recover only about one‐third to one‐half of the oil originally present in an oil reservoir. Given current oil prices, even a modest increase in oil recovery efficiency is fiscally attractive. One novel approach to increase oil recovery efficiency is a process called microbial enhanced oil recovery...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ryan T. Armstrong for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical

The Effect of Flowrate on Trapping in a Two-phase System as it Relates to CO₂ Sequestration

Creator:: Williams, Kristal A.
Abstract:: This research examines the independent and combined effects of drainage and imbibition flowrate on nonwetting phase capillary trapping in a two-phase, porous medium system. A uniform system of cubic arrangement and non-uniform systems of both cubic and rhombohedral arrangements were examined in order to analyze and compare the nonwetting phase...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ). ..................................... 12 Figure 7: Log Ca-log M force dominating boundaries. Boundaries are system-dependent. Grey

Linking Pore-scale Fluid-Fluid Interfacial Curvature in Porous Media to Capillary Pressure and Local Morphology with A Novel Method for Curvature Measurement

Creator:: Li, Tianyi
Abstract:: Systems that contain multi-phase flow in porous media are of interest in diverse fields including environmental engineering, hydrogeology, and petroleum engineering etc. One of the main descriptors of multi-phase flow in porous media is the relationship between capillary pressure and fluid saturation. Capillary pressure is inherently a pore-scale variable and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: using curvature values combined with the Young-Laplace equation (Armstrong et al. 2012b

Interfacial Relaxation and Two-Fluid Flow in Porous Media: A Fast X-Ray Microtomography Study

Creator:: Meisenheimer, Douglas E.
Abstract:: The flow of multiple immiscible fluids within a porous medium controls many natural and engineered systems in the environment including: geologic CO2 sequestration, enhanced oil recovery from underground reservoirs, and contaminant remediation of groundwater. The need to understand how fluids are transported and distributed in these processes is important for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: constants (µmax, Ks, m, and n) in the extended Monod equation with substrate inhibition would change the

Analyzing the Relationship between Capillary Pressure, Saturation, and Interfacial Area for a Three-Phase Flow System in Porous Media

Creator:: Paustian, Rebecca L.
Abstract:: Multi-phase flow in porous media includes many instances of subsurface flow. Three-phase flow in particular is important in situations of enhanced oil recovery, CO2 sequestration, and groundwater remediation. Many studies have been performed on how two fluid phases (oil/water or air/water) behave in porous media, but very few studies exist...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are water-wet and a portion of the surfaces are oil-wet (Armstrong & Wildenschild, 2012; Bradford

Visualization and characterization of biofilm spatial distribution in porous media using x-ray computed microtomography

Creator:: Iltis, Gabriel C.
Abstract:: This work focuses primarily the development of methods for imaging microbial biofilms in opaque porous media using x-ray computed microtomography (CT). Two methods for evaluating biofilms in porous media are presented. The first focuses on the addition of silver-coated, hollow glass microspheres to a biofilm-containing micro-model. The silver-coated microspheres affix...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: process. To Ryan Armstrong, Mark Porter, and Kristin Sample for helping me to stay sane, at least for a

The Effect of Drainage Flow Rate on Fluid Connectivity; Application to Geologic CO₂ Sequestration

Creator:: Bertoch, Madison
Abstract:: Geologic CO₂ sequestration is a climate change mitigation strategy that involves the injection of supercritical CO₂ into deep underground rock formations. This thesis focuses on capillary trapping in which capillary forces immobilize CO₂ bubbles at the pore scale. During injection of supercritical CO₂, brine is displaced in what is known...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Porous Media, 3(1), 17-34. Wildenschild, D., Armstrong, R. T., Herring, A. L., Young, I. M., & Carey

An investigation into the pore-scale mechanisms of capillary trapping : application to geologic CO₂ sequestration

Creator:: Herring, Anna L.
Abstract:: Geologic CO₂ sequestration is a climate change mitigation strategy that prevents CO₂ emissions to the atmosphere by capturing CO₂ gasses from large point source emissions streams and then pressurizing and pumping the supercritical-state CO₂ into underground geologic storage reservoirs. Once underground, CO₂ is prevented from buoyant migration to the surface...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the cone-beam tomography instrument for the study presented in Chapter 3; Ryan Armstrong and Ivan

Pore-scale observations of three-fluid-phase transport in porous media

Creator:: Brown, Kendra I.
Abstract:: Understanding the transport of three fluid phases through porous media has important applications in subsurface contaminant remediation, oil and gas recovery, and geological CO₂ sequestration. Existing transport models may be improved by including physical phenomena that govern fluid flow at the pore scale. In particular, thermodynamic arguments suggest that hysteresis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the flow column, with a hydrophilic semi-permeable membrane (GE Nylon, 1.2 μm pores) separating

Optimization of Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Effect of Flowrate on Nonwetting Phase Connectivity

Creator:: Davis, Brittany R.
Abstract:: Atmospheric carbon reduction is arguably the most crucial facet among efforts to mitigate climate change. The Fifth International Panel of Climate Change report emphasizes a worldwide goal of maintaining global temperature elevation less than 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures. This report also acknowledges without the proper utilization of counteractive emission strategies...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) ................................................................ 10 Figure 2.6: The estimated boundaries between different flow regimes based on log Ca-log M

Viscous Effects of Wetting and Non-Wetting Fluids on Capillary Trapping Mechanism: A Climate Change Mitigation Strategy.

Creator:: Fobi, Simone
Abstract:: Rising CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere (396 ppmv as of April 2012) increase the effect of global warming and climate change. CO₂ sequestration has become a potential method to mitigate climate change. This study focuses on capillary/residual trapping as a form of geologic CO₂ sequestration. Capillary/residual trapping occurs when supercritical...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: 3 consists of the injection of CO2 in oceans at depths greater than 1000 m [2]. In this

Exploring the Wettability States and Contact Angle Variation in Porous Media Multi-Phase Flow Systems

Creator:: Behnoudfar, Diba
Abstract:: The wetting of a surface by a liquid is a crucial part of many natural and industrial processes. Despite numerous existing studies, some elements of wetting-dewetting such as contact angle variation are still poorly understood. Knowledge of contact angle behavior during the flow is necessary for modeling fluid displacements in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .................................................................................................... 11 2.10 Critical capillary number vs viscosity ratio (M) and static contact angle 12 2.11 Contact

Saturation, morphology, and topology of nonwetting phase fluid in bentheimer sandstone; application to geologic sequestration of supercritical CO2

Creator:: Herring, Anna L.
Abstract:: This work examines the impact of a viscosity force parameter, fluid velocity, and a capillary force parameter, interfacial tension, on the saturation, morphology, and topology of NW fluid in Bentheimer sandstone after primary imbibition, drainage, and secondary imbibition. Brine and air (used as a proxy for supercritical CO₂) flow experiments...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (in mN/m) on NW phase morphology for all experimental stages

Optimization of capillary trapping of CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers, Optimization of capillary trapping of CO₂ sequestration in saline aquifers

Creator:: Harper, Elizabeth J.
Abstract:: Geological carbon sequestration, as a method of atmospheric greenhouse gas reduction, is at the technological forefront of the climate change movement. During sequestration, carbon dioxide (CO₂) gas effluent is captured from coal fired power plants and is injected into a storage saline aquifer or depleted oil reservoir. In an effort...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: enumerate here. A special thank you must also be extended to our former lab mate Ryan Armstrong, for

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Microbial enhanced oil recovery : a pore-scale investigation of interfacial interactions

The Effect of Flowrate on Trapping in a Two-phase System as it Relates to CO₂ Sequestration

Linking Pore-scale Fluid-Fluid Interfacial Curvature in Porous Media to Capillary Pressure and Local Morphology with A Novel Method for Curvature Measurement

Interfacial Relaxation and Two-Fluid Flow in Porous Media: A Fast X-Ray Microtomography Study

Analyzing the Relationship between Capillary Pressure, Saturation, and Interfacial Area for a Three-Phase Flow System in Porous Media

Visualization and characterization of biofilm spatial distribution in porous media using x-ray computed microtomography

The Effect of Drainage Flow Rate on Fluid Connectivity; Application to Geologic CO₂ Sequestration

An investigation into the pore-scale mechanisms of capillary trapping : application to geologic CO₂ sequestration

Pore-scale observations of three-fluid-phase transport in porous media

Optimization of Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Effect of Flowrate on Nonwetting Phase Connectivity

Viscous Effects of Wetting and Non-Wetting Fluids on Capillary Trapping Mechanism: A Climate Change Mitigation Strategy.

Exploring the Wettability States and Contact Angle Variation in Porous Media Multi-Phase Flow Systems

Saturation, morphology, and topology of nonwetting phase fluid in bentheimer sandstone; application to geologic sequestration of supercritical CO2

Optimization of capillary trapping of CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers, Optimization of capillary trapping of CO₂ sequestration in saline aquifers

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