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Gong, J. (author), Wang, Yuan (author), Tewari, Raj Deo (author), Kamarul Bahrim, Ridhwan Zhafri B. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Aqueous foam is a dispersion of gas in liquid, where the liquid acts as the continuous phase and the gas is separated by thin liquid films stabilized by a surfactant. Foam injection is a widely used technique in various applications, including CO2 sequestration, enhanced oil recovery, soil remediation, etc. Surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) is a...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Guofeng (author), Moulijn, J.A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Dautzenberg, Frits M. (author), Xu, Bin (author), Lu, Yong (author)Heterogeneous catalysis plays a pivotal role in the current chemical and energy vectors production. Notably, to fully utilize the intrinsic activity and selectivity of a catalyst, the chemical reactor has to be designed and operated optimally to achieve enhanced heat/mass transfer, well-defined contact time of reactants, uniform flow pattern,...journal article 2023
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Li, K. (author)Naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs) gain much attention worldwide because they are often encountered in aquifer remediation, CO2 sequestration, and hydrocarbon extraction. In hydrocarbon extraction, however, oil recovery by gas injection in NFRs is usually low, because of poor sweep efficiency. During gas injection, the displacement front is...doctoral thesis 2022
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Zitha, P.L.J. (author), Guo, H. (author)Capillary forces result in the trapping of the oleic phase in porous media even after extensive flushing with brine. Alkali-surfactant-polymer formulations drastically diminish capillary forces, whereas adding polymer to the water phase increases viscous forces, resulting in highly efficient extraction of the residual oil. However, by virtue...journal article 2022
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Lyu, X. (author)Foam is an agglomeration of gas bubbles separated from each other by thin liquid films. Foam injection has been proved to be an efficient way to increase sweep efficiency in gas-injection enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) processes or enlarge the storage space for trapping of CO2 in aquifers. Numerical simulation, an important tool developed by...doctoral thesis 2021
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Li, K. (author), Sharifnik, Mohammadamin (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Foam coarsening by diffusion (Ostwald ripening) has been well studied in bulk foams. However, it is less well understood in porous media. In particular, the mechanisms that may slow or stop coarsening have not been fully investigated. In this paper, we report an experimental study of foam coarsening in two 1-m-long and 15-cm-wide model fractures...journal article 2021
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Janssen, M.T.G. (author)Foam-assisted chemical flooding (FACF) is a novel enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methodology that combines the injection of a surfactant slug, to mobilize previously trapped residual oil, with foam generation for drive mobility control, thus displacing the mobilized banked oil. The main goal of this study concerns the understanding of oil...doctoral thesis 2020
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Torres Mendez, Fabian (author)Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) methods can increase the oil recovery of a reservoir to more than 60% of the volumes originally in-situ. Typical oil recoveries range from 20% to 40% of OIIP under traditional primary and secondary recovery stages. The understanding of the mechanisms that control such complex processes is essential...master thesis 2019
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ter Haar, Sterre (author)Scope: Surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) is the preferred method of foam injection to improve sweep efficiency in enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR). Here, for the first time, fractional-flow theory is extended to include the shock for gas injection in the high-quality regime for radial flow in a non-Newtonian SAG process for shear-thinning and shear...bachelor thesis 2018
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Kagoro, Rita (author)Miscible gas injection has been widely used worldwide to improve oil recovery. However, problems such as viscous fingering and gravity override undermine its success on a large scale. Foaming of the injected gas mitigates these problems by reducing the mobility of the gas.<br/><br/>Past studies using an ionic surfactant to foam CO2 in the...master thesis 2017
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Ansari, M.N. (author)Enhance Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques are theoretically very promising but in real life suffer the effects of many physical complications in the subsurface which are yet to be understood in detail. One such complication is the detrimental effect of oil in foam in foam EOR. Current-generation reservoir simulators represent these effects in an...master thesis 2015
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Heins, R. (author)Enhanced oil recovery by gas injection can show excellent displacement efficiency but may suffer from poor sweep efficiency. A promising method to overcome poor sweep efficiency in gas-injection enhanced oil recovery processes is foam injection. The effect of oil saturation on foam stability is complicated and not fully understood. Complexity in...master thesis 2015
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Danelis, S. (author)Gas flooding is a widely used improved and enhanced oil recovery method. However, due to the low density and the high mobility of gas compared to oil and water, gravity override and fingering of gas though high-permeability zoness can occur during gas flooding reducing oil recovery. The development of foam leads to lowering the gas mobility and...master thesis 2015
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Nell, M. (author)Foam injection is a promising method to improve sweep efficiency for gas flooding in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The effect of oil on foam is a complex phenomenon and for this reason three phase foam simulations have shown to be difficult in the past. Initially the objective of this simulation study was getting a better understanding of...master thesis 2015
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Leeftink, T.N. (author), Latooij, C.A. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Injectivity is a key factor in the economics of foam enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes. Poor injectivity of low-mobility foam slows the production of oil and allows more time for gravity segregation of injected gas. The conventional Peaceman equation (1978), when applied in a large grid block, makes two substantial errors in estimating foam...journal article 2014
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Roebroeks, J. (author)The goal of this thesis, to assess the potential of a new silica-based nanoparticle to increase foam viscosity in a porous medium, has been achieved. A method was developed to reduce filtration effects which allowed the conduction of repeatable foam-scan experiments in a laboratory. Through conduction of multiple core-flooding experiments it has...master thesis 2014
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Namdar Zanganeh, M. (author), Kraaijevanger, J.F.B.M. (author), Buurman, H.W. (author), Jansen, J.D. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)We apply adjoint-based optimization to a Surfactant-Alternating-Gas foam process using a linear foam model introducing gradual changes in gas mobility and a nonlinear foam model giving abrupt changes in gas mobility as function of oil and water saturations and surfactant concentration. For the linear foam model, the objective function is a...journal article 2014
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Hussain, A.A.A. (author)This thesis investigates bulk foam stability in absence of oil, and in presence of oil (hexadecane). Foam in absence of oil was produced by sparging nitrogen at a fixed flow rate through the surfactant solution. Foam in presence of oil was produced by stirring a mixture of surfactant and oil with an immersion mixer. The behavior of foam in...master thesis 2013
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Dharma, A.S. (author)In gas-injection enhanced oil recovery (EOR), foam is a promising method to improve sweep. We studied foam for EOR through analytical modeling and simulations in two cases: the ability of foam to prevent gravity override over large distances and the effect of oil on foam processes. Shan and Rossen (2004) present a simple model for SAG ...master thesis 2013
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Rae, S.I. (author), Bond, I.P. (author), Trask, R.S. (author), Wass, D.F. (author)A new approach to self-healing systems is presented that aims to overcome the inherent drawbacks of conventional liquid resin based healing systems within composites. Finite embedded systems offer limited healing potential for small volume delaminations and as such cannot effectively heal large damage volumes often associated with shear damaged...conference paper 2013
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