Chemical and reactive transport processes associated with hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas shales

AD Jew, JL Druhan, M Ihme, AR Kovscek… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas shales has changed the energy landscape of
the US Recovery of hydrocarbons from tight, hydraulically fractured shales is a highly …

Striving to translate shale physics across ten orders of magnitude: What have we learned?

Y Mehmani, T Anderson, Y Wang, SA Aryana… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Shales will play an important role in the successful transition of energy from fossil-based
resources to renewables in the coming decades. Aside from being a significant source of …

[HTML][HTML] Pore-scale heterogeneity in the mineral distribution and reactive surface area of porous rocks

P Lai, K Moulton, S Krevor - Chemical Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
The reactive surface area is an important control on interfacial processes between minerals
and aqueous fluids in porous rocks. Spatial heterogeneity in the surface area can lead to …

Theory and applications of macroscale models in porous media

I Battiato, PT Ferrero V, D O'Malley, CT Miller… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Systems dominated by heterogeneity over a multiplicity of scales, like porous
media, still challenge our modeling efforts. The presence of disparate length-and time …

Towards understanding factors affecting arsenic, chromium, and vanadium mobility in the subsurface

HR Peel, FO Balogun, CA Bowers, CT Miller… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), and vanadium (V) are naturally occurring, redox-active
elements that can become human health hazards when they are released from aquifer …

A review of reactive transport modeling in wellbore integrity problems

T Ajayi, I Gupta - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Long term assurance of the integrity of wellbores is a key objective in well designs. Over
long periods of time, subsurface reactions are inevitable and could compromise the integrity …

On veracity of macroscopic lithium-ion battery models

H Arunachalam, S Onori, I Battiato - Journal of The …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Batteries are electrochemical energy storage devices that exhibit physico-chemical
heterogeneity on a continuity of scales. As such, battery systems are amenable to …

The impact of pore‐scale flow regimes on upscaling of immiscible two‐phase flow in porous media

D Picchi, I Battiato - Water resources research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical or theoretical extensions of Darcy's law for immiscible two‐phase flow have shown
significant limitations in properly modeling the flow at the continuum scale. We tackle this …

An analysis platform for multiscale hydrogeologic modeling with emphasis on hybrid multiscale methods

TD Scheibe, EM Murphy, X Chen, AK Rice… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most significant challenges faced by hydrogeologic modelers is the disparity
between the spatial and temporal scales at which fundamental flow, transport, and reaction …

Chemical and hydrodynamic mechanisms for long-term geological carbon storage

SJ Altman, B Aminzadeh, MT Balhoff… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Geological storage of CO2 (GCS), also referred to as carbon sequestration, is a critical
component for decreasing anthropogenic CO2 atmospheric emissions. Stored CO2 will exist …