OVERVIEW OF THE BROOKIAN STRUCTURAL PLAYS THERMAL CONSIDERATIONS STRUCTURAL CLOSURE ANALYSIS BROOKIAN TOPSET STRUCTURAL PLAY PLAY ATTRIBUTES Volumetric Parameters Reservoir thickness Area of closure Porosity and hydrocarbon pore volume Trap Fill Trap depth Number of prospects Oil and Gas parameters Oil recovery factor Non-associated gas recovery factor Oil gravity and sulfur content GOR at medi...

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are commonly used to obtain adsorption properties of gas molecules inside porous materials. In this work, we discuss various optimization strategies that lead to faster MC simulations with CO2 gas molecules inside host zeolite structures used as a test system. The reciprocal space contribution of the gas-gas Ewald summation and both the direct and the reciprocal gas...

Equilibrium adsorption of gas phase mixtures of Dand Lalanine (Ala) onto the naturally chiral Cu{3,1,17} surfaces has been studied by both experiment and DFT-based modeling. Isotopically labeled *L-Ala (HO2 CCH(NH2)CH3) and unlabeled D-Ala allow mass spectrometric enantiodifferentiation of the adsorbed species during temperature-programmed decomposition, following equilibrium adsorption. Measur...

Natural gas is processed to control purity and bring it to sales standard. A part of this processing involves the removal of N2 and CO2 which may exist in large quantities in the gas. These impurities are often removed using Cryogenic Pressure Swing Adsorption (CPSA). PSA uses pressure changes to maximise the efficiency of adsorption and desorption. A fundamental mathematical model was develope...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOF), potentially porous coordination structures, are envisioned for adsorption-based natural gas (ANG) storage, including mobile applications. The factors affecting the performance of ANG system with a zirconium-based MOF benzene dicarboxylic acid as linker (ZrBDC) an adsorbent were considered: textural properties and thermal effect arising upon adsorption. high-densi...

Density functional theory calculations on oxygen adsorption over gas phase and faujasite supported Au monomer has been studied using hybrid quantum mechanics∕molecular mechanics method, surface integrated molecular orbital molecular mechanics implemented in GAMESS package. Three different oxidation states of Au (0, +1, +3) and three different adsorption modes viz., top, bridge, and dissociative...

Adsorption of pure and mixtures of O(2) and N(2) on isolated single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) have been investigated at the subcritical (77 K) and different supercritical (273, 293, and 313 K) temperatures for the pressure range between 1 and 31 MPa using (N,V,T) Monte Carlo simulation. Both O(2) and N(2) gravimetric storage capacity exhibit similar behaviors, gas adsorption is higher on o...

Modeling and simulation of unconventional reservoirs are much more complicated than the conventional reservoir modeling, because of their complex flow characteristics. Mechanisms, which control the flow in the reservoir, are still under the investigation of researchers. However, it is important to investigate applications of mechanisms which are present to our knowledge. This paper presents the...

There has been an ongoing research on coal and gas outburst for the past two decades at the School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong. Research study began with a humble beginning, initially conducting basic laboratory studies on the coal and gas properties, progressing into the determination of gas content of coal by sorption technique and the effect of ga...