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High energy efficiency in syngas and hydrocarbon production from dissociation of CH4-CO2 mixture in a non-equilibrium pulsed plasma
, Article Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics ; Volume 38, Issue 20 , 2005 , Pages 3804-3811 ; 00223727 (ISSN) ; Norouzi, S ; Mohammadi, T ; Sharif University of Technology
2005
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The efficient production of syngas from a CH4+CO2 mixture in an atmospheric pulsed glow discharge, sustained by corona pre-ionization, has been investigated. The products were mainly syngas (CO, H2) and hydrocarbons up to C4, with acetylene having the highest selectivity. The energy efficiency was within 15-40% for different experimental conditions, which demonstrates a comprehensive improvement relative to the achievements of other types of non-equilibrium plasma. These values are, however, comparable with the efficiencies obtained by gliding arc plasmas but this plasma operates at near room temperature. Furthermore, it has been shown that the energy efficiency is increased by decreasing...
Prediction of Surfactant Retention in Porous Media: A Robust Modeling Approach
, Article Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology ; Vol. 35, issue. 10 , Sep , 2014 , p. 1407-1418 ; Arabloo, M ; Shokrollahi, A ; Mohammadi, A. H ; Sharif University of Technology
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Demands for hydrocarbon production have been increasing in recent decades. As a tertiary production processes, chemical flooding is one of the effective technologies to increase oil recovery of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Retention of surfactants is one of the key parameters affecting the performance and economy of a chemical flooding process. The main parameters contribute to surfactant retention are mineralogy of rock, surfactant structure, pH, salinity, acidity of the oil, microemulsion viscosity, co-solvent concentration, and mobility. Despite various theoretical studies carried out so far, a comprehensive and reliable predictive model for surfactant retention is still found lacking. In this...
Study the effect of connectivity between two wells on secondary recovery efficiency using percolation approach
, Article 15th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, ECMOR 2016, 29 August 2016 through 1 September 2016 ; 2016 ; 9462821933 (ISBN); 9789462821934 (ISBN) ; Masihi, M ; King, P. R ; Gago, P. A ; Sharif University of Technology
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE
2016
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Estimating available hydrocarbon to be produced during secondary oil recovery is an ongoing activity in field development. The primary plan is normally scheduled during early stage of field's life through master development plan studies. During this period, due to the lake of certain data, estimation of the field efficiency is usually based on rules of thumb and not detailed field characterization. Hence, there is a great motivation to produce simpler physically-based methodologies. The minimum necessity inputs of percolation approach make it a useful tool for foration performance prediction. This approach enables us to attain a better assessment of the efficiency of secondary recovery...
An atomistic insight into interfacial properties of brine nanofilm confined between calcite substrate and hydrocarbon layer
, Article Applied Surface Science ; Volume 490 , 2019 , Pages 89-101 ; 01694332 (ISSN) ; Badizad, M. H ; Ayatollahi, S ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2019
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Molecular dynamics simulation was applied in this study to scrutinize the interfacial properties of water nano-film confined between calcite mineral and hydrocarbon layer, as two intrinsically different media. Such system resembles the environment experienced by water molecules in the pore spaces of underground carbonate reservoirs. The interplay between water film and confining phases, oil and mineral, strongly influences hydrocarbon production process; however, there is a lack of detailed understanding of the involved interactions. MD simulations indicate development of several layers with different water densities in the confined brine. Water molecules form well-ordered structure in three...
Remedial effects of metal oxide nanoparticles to treat suspension transport in saturated porous media
, Article SPE - European Formation Damage Conference, Proceedings, EFDC ; Volume 1 , 2013 , Pages 478-488 ; 9781627486101 (ISBN) ; Pourafshary, P ; Ayatollahi, S ; Habibi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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Hydrocarbon production decline as a result of formation damage caused by fines migration has been widely observed in laboratory corefloods and natural flows in porous media. Permeability impairment due to fines migration is explained by different capture mechanisms of already released particles at some pore sites. Preventing detachment of in-situ particles from the rock surface during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) agent injection into the porous media has been reported recently. In this experimental study, the effect of five types of metal oxide nanoparticles; γ-AI2O3, ZnO, CuO, MgO and SiO: to adsorb the fine particles existing in the flowing suspension has been investigated. In each test,...
Effect of fracture geometry on improving hydrocarbon production in fractured gas reservoirs by hydraulic fracturing
, Article 73rd European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2011: Unconventional Resources and the Role of Technology. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2011 ; Volume 7 , 2011 , Pages 5647-5651 ; 9781617829666 (ISBN) ; Danaei, S ; Sharif University of Technology
2011
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hydraulic fracturing is one of the most prestigious mechanical methods which used as a facile production rate improvement method. Application of this method is in wells with low productivity index. Hydraulic fracturing efficiency depends on various factors, like fracture geometry, fluid composition and stress distribution. But some of them would be ignored. Such as fracture geometry which is neglected due to non-gravity and lack of investigation of DFN statistical population assumption. In this paper we develop a more comprehensive methodology based on fracture geometry, we aim to model one of the gas reservoirs which is naturally fractured, by using well-known commercial software. Based on...
Three dimensional pressure transient behavior study in stress sensitive reservoirs
, Article Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering ; Volume 152 , 2017 , Pages 204-211 ; 09204105 (ISSN) ; Shamloo, A ; Asadbegi, M ; Dezfuli, A. D ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2017
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Stress sensitivity is a phenomenon that affects reservoir rock properties, such as permeability and therefore changes the well pressure transient behavior. This paper aims to study these behaviors in stress sensitive reservoirs and evaluate the pressure loss in such reservoirs during the process of hydrocarbon production. A power model is used to correlate the changes in permeability with pore pressure. A novel semi-implicit three-dimensional finite element method has been employed to numerically solve the flow problem. The numerical results have been validated by analytical results obtained in a non-sensitive reservoir. Pressure drawdown test for different scenarios has been studied. The...