Computational microfluidics for geosciences

C Soulaine, J Maes, S Roman - Frontiers in Water, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Computational microfluidics for geosciences is the third leg of the scientific strategy that
includes microfluidic experiments and high-resolution imaging for deciphering coupled …

A critical review of the role of thin liquid films for modified salinity brine recovery processes

H Guo, N Nazari, S Esmaeilzadeh… - Current Opinion in Colloid …, 2020 - Elsevier
Low salinity water injection (LSWI) is the process of injecting modified salinity brine with
controlled ionic composition to achieve increased oil recovery compared to conventional …

A perspective on applied geochemistry in porous media: Reactive transport modeling of geochemical dynamics and the interplay with flow phenomena and physical …

H Deng, M Gharasoo, L Zhang, Z Dai, A Hajizadeh… - Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
In many practical geochemical systems that are at the center of providing indispensable
energy, resources and service to our society,(bio) geochemical reactions are coupled with …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of modified graphene oxide (GO) nanofluid on wettability and IFT changes: Experimental study for EOR applications

E Jafarbeigi, F Salimi, E Kamari, M Mansouri - Petroleum Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of nanoparticles (NPs) in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) offers a practical
approach to resolving some surface-related problems encountered in contemporary …

Impact of salinity on fluid/fluid and rock/fluid interactions in enhanced oil recovery by hybrid low salinity water and surfactant flooding from fractured porous media

AH Javadi, M Fatemi - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Wettability alteration of the porous medium from oil-wet (OW) to neutral-wet or even water-
wet (WW) is proposed as one of the main mechanisms behind the enhanced oil recovery …

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Mineral Surface Wettability by Water Versus CO2: Thin Films, Contact Angles, and Capillary Pressure in a Silica Nanopore

EWH Sun, IC Bourg - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
The wettability of mineral surfaces is an important property influencing multiphase flow in
soils and sedimentary rocks. In particular, for CO2 abatement technologies that rely on …

Impact of rock morphology on the dominating enhanced oil recovery mechanisms by low salinity water flooding in carbonate rocks

H Farhadi, S Ayatollahi, M Fatemi - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Because of the complex nature of carbonate reservoirs, the required conditions for effective
Low Salinity Water Flooding (LSWF) in these reservoirs need further and in depth …

The impact of the electrical behavior of oil-brine-rock interfaces on the ionic transport rate in a thin film, hydrodynamic pressure, and low salinity waterflooding effect

A Pourakaberian, H Mahani, V Niasar - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wettability alteration is the principal low-salinity-effect (LSE) in many oil-brine-rock (OBR)
systems. Our recent experimental results have demonstrated that wettability alteration by low …

Impact of pore clogging by bacteria on underground hydrogen storage

N Eddaoui, M Panfilov, L Ganzer… - Transport in Porous Media, 2021 - Springer
The idea of underground storage of hydrogen exists today in several forms. One of the most
promising methods is the option of underground methanation, which consists of injecting H 2 …

Dynamics of electrostatic interaction and electrodiffusion in a charged thin film with nanoscale physicochemical heterogeneity: Implications for low-salinity …

A Pourakaberian, H Mahani, V Niasar - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
The slow kinetics of wettability alteration toward a more water-wetting state by low-salinity
waterflooding (LSWF) in oil-brine-rock (OBR) systems is conjectured to be pertinent to the …