We develop our existing two-dimensional lattice gas model to simulate the flow of single phase, binary immiscible and ternary amphiphilic fluids. This involves the inclusion of fixed obstacles on the lattice, together with the inclusion of “no-slip” boundary conditions. Here we report on preliminary applications of this model to the flow of such fluids within model porous media. We also constru...

The mass transfer between immiscible two-liquid phases can be greatly enhanced by bubbling gas through a reactor. Numerous micro water droplets breaking out from a ruptured water film around a rising bubble through the oil (upper phase)/water (lower phase) interface were demonstrated in the preceding paper (Uemura T., Ueda Y. and Iguchi M., Europhys. Lett., 92 (2010) 34004). In this letter, we ...

Modeling the injection of CO 2 and its sequestration will require simulations of a multi-well injection system in a large reservoir field. However, modeling at the injection well scale is a necessary prerequisite to reservoir scale modeling. We report on the development and application of two models: 1) a semi-analytical model (PNLCARB), and 2) a numerical model (STOMP-CO 2). PNLCARB can simula...

Injection of CO, into depleted natural gas reservoirs offers the potential to sequester carbon while simultaneously enhancing CH, recovey. Enhanced CH, recovery can partially offset the costs of CO, injection. With the goal of analyzing the feasibility of carbon sequestration with enhanced gas recovery (CSEGR), we are investigating the physical processes associated with injecting CO, into natur...

Three aspects, such as the optimization of calculation model for the minimum gas injection rate, the effect of elevation on the minimum gas injection rate, the effect of air humidity on the minimum gas injection rate, have been reviewed in this paper. Considering the influence of altitude and air humidity, correction factor for gas injection rate is calculated. The value of gas injection for al...

I review the methodology of "high-performance" liquid chromatography as applied to therapeutic drug monitoring. Aside from direct injection of sample, sample cleanup involves miscible and immiscible organic solvent extractions, solid-phase extraction, and size separations. Column considerations are bonded phases, column dimensions, particle size, guard columns, stability, pH range, and reproduc...

Miscible gas injection is one of the most effective enhanced oil recovery techniques and minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is an important parameter in miscible gas injection processes. The accurate determination of this parameter is critical for an adequate design of injection equipment investment prospect. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new universal artificial neural network (U-A...

This paper presents a Buckley-Leverett analytical solution for non-Darcy displacement of two immiscible fluids in porous media. The multiphase non-Darcy displacement is described using a Forchheimer equation or other non-Darcy flow correlations under multiphase flow conditions. The analytical solution is used to obtain some insight into the physics of displacement involving non-Darcy flow effec...

The concept of immiscible displacement as an invasion percolation (IP) process driven by heat and mass transfer is used in a pore network model for convective drying of capillary porous media. The coupling between heat and mass transfer occurs at the liquid-gas interface through temperature dependent equilibrium vapour pressure, surface tension and phase change enthalpy (in evaporation and cond...