The role of supercritical carbon dioxide for recovery of shale gas and sequestration in gas shale reservoirs

Q Lyu, J Tan, L Li, Y Ju, A Busch, DA Wood… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques has promoted the
exploitation of shale gas resources. However, using water has several potential drawbacks …

Molecular insights into carbon dioxide enhanced multi-component shale gas recovery and its sequestration in realistic kerogen

S Wang, X Yao, Q Feng, F Javadpour, Y Yang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the governing processes of CO 2 huff-n-puff in shales is essential for
enhancing shale gas recovery and CO 2 sequestration. However, existing studies have not …

Competitive adsorption of methane and ethane in montmorillonite nanopores of shale at supercritical conditions: A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study

S Wang, Q Feng, F Javadpour, Q Hu, K Wu - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Because ethane acts apart from methane as a significant component in shale gas,
knowledge of the competitive adsorption behavior of methane and ethane in shales …

Separation of light hydrocarbons with ionic liquids: A review

Y Huang, Y Zhang, H Xing - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Light hydrocarbons (C 1–C 4) are fundamental raw materials in the petroleum and
chemical industry. Separation and purification of structurally similar paraffin/olefin/alkyne …

Supercritical CO2 fracking for enhanced shale gas recovery and CO2 sequestration: Results, status and future challenges

J Zhou, N Hu, X Xian, L Zhou, J Tang… - Advances in Geo …, 2019 - yandy-ager.com
Abstract Supercritical carbon dioxide (ScCO 2)-based fracturing technology associating with
CO 2 enhanced shale gas recovery is a promising technology to reduce the water …

A dilemma in calculating ethane absolute adsorption in shale gas reservoirs: A theoretical approach

B Liu, S Babaei, L Bai, S Tian, H Ghasemzadeh… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Shale gas plays are composed of different constituent components (mineral and organics)
and a mixture of fluids. To accurately estimate the gas in place (GIP) in such reservoirs …

Recovery mechanisms of hydrocarbon mixtures in organic and inorganic nanopores during pressure drawdown and CO2 injection from molecular perspectives

M Zhang, S Zhan, Z Jin - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Competitive adsorption of hydrocarbon mixtures (C 1-C 2-C 3) as well as CO 2 in shale
nanopores is of critical importance to CO 2 enhanced shale gas recovery. While …

Absolute adsorption of light hydrocarbons on organic-rich shale: An efficient determination method

X Huang, L Gu, S Li, Y Du, Y Liu - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Absolute adsorption has been found being more accurate than directly measured excess
adsorption value for estimating the in-situ shale gas-in-place storage. To obtain accurate …

Determination of the absolute adsorption/desorption isotherms of CH4 and n-C4H10 on shale from a nano-scale perspective

Y Liu, HA Li, Y Tian, Z Jin, H Deng - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate description of absolute adsorption/desorption behavior for hydrocarbons on shale
is of critical importance to the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms governing the …

Generalized mechanistic framework for ethane dehydrogenation and oxidative dehydrogenation on molybdenum oxide catalysts

R Yao, JE Herrera, L Chen, YHC Chin - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ethane turnovers to ethylene in either oxidehydrogenation with diverse oxidants (O2, CO2,
H2O) or dehydrogenation (without an oxidant) over two-dimensional MoO x dispersed on …