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Impact of CO2 hydrates on injectivity during CO2 storage in depleted gas fields: A literature reviewAghajanloo, M. (author), Yan, L. (author), Berg, Steffen (author), Voskov, D.V. (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author)Carbon dioxide capture and storage in subsurface geological formations is a potential solution to limit anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and combat global warming. Depleted gas fields offer significant CO<sub>2</sub> storage volumes; however, injection of CO<sub>2</sub> into these reservoirs poses some potential challenges for the...journal article 2024
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Jangda, Zaid (author), Menke, Hannah (author), Busch, Andreas (author), Geiger, S. (author), Bultreys, Tom (author), Singh, Kamaljit (author)Subsurface porous rocks hold significant hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>) storage potential to support an H<sub>2</sub>-based energy future. Understanding H<sub>2</sub> flow and trapping in subsurface rocks is crucial to reliably evaluate their storage efficiency. In this work, we perform cyclic H<sub>2</sub> flow visualization experiments on a...journal article 2024
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Wang, Lu Yu (author), Chen, Wei Zhong (author), Zhang, Yan Jun (author), Zhang, Xiao Dong (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)Modeling of fluid flow in porous media is a pillar in geoscience applications. Previous studies have revealed that heterogeneity and fracture distribution have considerable influence on fluid flow. In this work, a numerical investigation of two-phase flow in heterogeneous fractured reservoir is presented. First, the discrete fracture model is...journal article 2023
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Zhao, M. (author), Wang, Y. (author), Gerritsma, M.I. (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author)CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration and storage in deep saline aquifers is a promising technology for mitigating the excessive concentration of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. However, accurately predicting the migration of CO<sub>2</sub> plumes requires complex multi-physics-based numerical simulation approaches, which are prohibitively...journal article 2023
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Wang, Y. (author), Zhang, Z. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author)An efficient compositional framework is developed for simulation of CO <sub>2</sub> storage in saline aquifers during a full-cycle injection, migration and post-migration processes. Essential trapping mechanisms, including structural, dissolution, and residual trapping, which operate at different time scales, are accurately captured in the...journal article 2023
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Joewondo, Nerine (author), Garbin, V. (author), Pini, Ronny (author)The dissolution of bubbles confined in porous media is relevant to applications such as carbon sequestration and soil remediation. Recent numerical work indicates that a rich variety of collective dissolution behaviors can be obtained depending on the initial solute concentration, the size distribution of bubbles and the structure of the...journal article 2023
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Kamel Targhi, Elahe (author), Emami Niri, Mohammad (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Cross-linked polymer gel is widely used in the oil and gas industry to block high permeability conduits and reduce water cut. The complex nature of this fluid, especially regarding flow in porous media, makes its numerical simulation very time-consuming. This study presents an approach to designing an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model...journal article 2023
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Meng, Z. (author), Zhang, Yufei (author), Chen, Wei kang (author), Fu, Chuan qing (author), Xiong, Qing Xiang (author), Zhang, Cheng lin (author), Liu, Qing feng (author)Understanding the transport mechanisms within unsaturated porous media is essential to the durability problems associated with cement-based materials. However, the involvement of multi-ions electrochemical coupling effect, especially under unsaturated condition makes the transport mechanisms even more complex. In this study, the moisture and...journal article 2023
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Hosseinimehr, S.M. (author), Piguave Tomala, Janio (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author), Al Kobaisi, Mohammed (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author)We present the projection-based embedded discrete fracture model (pEDFM) for hexahedral corner-point grid (CPG) geometries, for the simulation of hydrothermal processes in fractured porous media. Unlike the previously-developed pEDFM for structured box grids, our new development allows for the modeling of complex geometries defined with...journal article 2022
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Wang, Luyu (author), Chen, Weizhong (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)Developing numerical method of fractured porous media is of paramount importance in geoscience applications. Previous studies have revealed that the discrete fractures and cavities as well as the heterogeneity have considerable influences on hydraulic property of porous media. This work presents a numerical investigation on fluid flow in...journal article 2022
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Wang, Y. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author)CO2 injection into deep saline aquifers has shown to be a feasible option, as for their large storage capacity under safe operational conditions. Previous studies have revealed that CO2 can be trapped in the subsurface by several mechanisms. Despite the major advances in studying these trapping mechanisms, their dynamic interactions in different...journal article 2022
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Boeije, C.S. (author), Verweij, C.B. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author), Pluymakers, Anne (author)The long-term performance of the reservoir is essential in order to ensure competitive life-cycle cost of the geothermal installations. Geothermal fluids are often saturated with gasses such as CO2 and N2. With their extraction from the reservoir, pressure and temperature decrease towards the extraction well. This disturbs the state of...conference paper 2022
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Wang, Y. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author)Natural or induced fractures are typically present in subsurface geological formations. Therefore, they need to be carefully studied for reliable estimation of the long-term carbon dioxide storage. Instinctively, flow-conductive fractures may undermine storage security as they increase the risk of CO2 leakage if they intersect the CO2 plume. In...journal article 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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Joewondo, Nerine (author), Garbin, V. (author), Pini, Ronny (author)Understanding the evolution of solute concentration gradients underpins the prediction of porous media processes limited by mass transfer. Here, we present the development of a mathematical model that describes the dissolution of spherical bubbles in two-dimensional regular pore networks. The model is solved numerically for lattices with up...journal article 2022
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Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani, S. (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author), Voskov, D.V. (author), Jansen, J.D. (author)A smoothed embedded finite-volume modeling (sEFVM) method is presented for faulted and fractured heterogeneous poroelastic media. The method casts a fully coupled strategy to treat the coupling between fault slip mechanics, deformation mechanics, and fluid flow equations. This ensures the stability and consistency of the simulation results,...journal article 2022
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Wang, L. (author), Wang, Y. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author)The past decades have witnessed an increasing interest in numerical simulation for flow in fractured porous media. To date, most studies have focused on 2D or pseudo-3D computational models, where the impact of 3D complex structures on seepage has not been fully addressed. This work presents a method for modeling seepage in 3D heterogeneous...journal article 2022
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Oliveira de Almeida, S. (author), Chapiro, Grigori (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Electromagnetic (EM) heating is an emerging method for storing renewable energy, such as photovoltaic solar and wind electric power, into aquifers. We investigate how the captured energy increases the temperature of a prototypical deep aquifer for a six-month period and then to which extent the stored energy can be recovered during the...journal article 2022
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Jones, S.A. (author), Bos, Robert (author), Lastovka, Vaclav (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Riyami, Mohammed (author)The efficiency of oil processes depends on the product of volumetric sweep and microscopic sweep. In oil recovery by steam injection the microscopic sweep is generally good; however, obtaining a good volumetric sweep can be challenging. This is caused by low density and viscosity of the injected steam combined with the reservoir heterogeneity...conference paper 2022
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Wang, L. (author), Golfier, Fabrice (author), Tinet, Anne-Julie (author), Chen, Weizhong (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)This work investigates numerical method and equivalent continuum approach (ECA) of fluid flow in fractured porous media. The commonly used discrete fracture model (DFM) without upscaling needs full discretization of all fractures. It enjoys the merit of capturing each fracture accurately but will get in trouble with mesh partition and low...journal article 2022