Lab on a chip for a low-carbon future

SS Datta, I Battiato, MA Fernø, R Juanes, S Parsa… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Transitioning our society to a sustainable future, with low or net-zero carbon emissions to the
atmosphere, will require a wide-spread transformation of energy and environmental …

Lab-on-a-chip systems in imbibition processes: A review and applications/issues for studying tight formations

X Peng, X Wang, X Zhou, Z Lin, F Zeng, X Huang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
For waterflooded tight oil formations, imbibition is a dominant mechanism for oil recovery.
Although substantial imbibition experiments have been conducted in lab-on-a-chip systems …

Probing multiscale dissolution dynamics in natural rocks through microfluidics and compositional analysis

B Ling, M Sodwatana, A Kohli… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Mineral dissolution significantly impacts many geological systems. Carbon released by
diagenesis, carbon sequestration, and acid injection are examples where geochemical …

Effects of pore characteristics on water-oil two-phase displacement in non-homogeneous pore structures: A pore-scale lattice Boltzmann model considering various …

Y Ju, W Gong, W Chang, M Sun - International Journal of Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding immiscible-phase fluid displacement in non-homogeneous pore structures is
crucial to enhance resource recovery in the secondary development of old petroleum …

Validation of model predictions of pore-scale fluid distributions during two-phase flow

T Bultreys, Q Lin, Y Gao, AQ Raeini, A AlRatrout… - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Pore-scale two-phase flow modeling is an important technology to study a rock's relative
permeability behavior. To investigate if these models are predictive, the calculated pore …

[HTML][HTML] Direct simulations of two-phase flow experiments of different geometry complexities using Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method

X Yin, I Zarikos, NK Karadimitriou, A Raoof… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Two-phase flow in three porous media with different geometry complexities are simulated
using the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. The evolution of the flow pattern, as well as the …

In-situ pore-scale imaging and image-based modelling of capillary trapping for geological storage of CO2

PE Øren, LC Ruspini, M Saadatfar, RM Sok… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
We describe an imaging and pore-scale modelling study of capillary trapping in the Paaratte
Sandstone formation in the Otway Basin, Australia. Three-dimensional X-ray computed …

Verifying pore network models of imbibition in rocks using time‐resolved synchrotron imaging

T Bultreys, K Singh, AQ Raeini… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
At the pore scale, slow invasion of a wetting fluid in porous materials is often modeled with
quasi‐static approximations which only consider capillary forces in the form of simple pore …

Pore-resolved volume-of-fluid simulations of two-phase flow in porous media: Pore-scale flow mechanisms and regime map

AS Ambekar, S Mondal, VV Buwa - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Two-phase flow through porous media is important to the development of secondary and
tertiary oil recovery. In the present work, we have simulated oil recovery through a pore …

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 …