Fracturing and water flooding have been popular technologies to achieve the effective development of tight oil reservoirs in recent years. However, late stage production, recovery rate declines with a rapid increase cut. Water huff-puff could improve reservoir energy; however, displacement imbibition micro-nano pore throat fracture systems are complex processes unclear characteristics position....

A face mask is essential personal protective equipment to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. While a cloth has least ability prevent passage infectious respiratory droplets through it compared surgical and N95 masks, does not fit snugly causes significant air leakage. The synthetic fibers in latter reduce comfortability are an allergen for facial eczema. Moreover, CO 2 inhalation reduces heat tra...

efforts to enhance oil recovery through wettability alteration by nanoparticles have been attracted inrecent years. however, many basic questions have been ambiguous up until now. nanoparticlespenetrate into pore volume of porous media, stick on the core surface, and by creating homogeneouswater-wet area, cause to alter wettability. this work introduces the new concept of adding znonanoparticle...

Crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum L. convar. Inkara) seeds were imbibed with water solution of various pH values (4, 5, 6 and 7) at ambiental temperatures (10, 15 22 °C) the aim to reveal treatments effects on seed (imbibition, germination energy, electric conductivity) seedling traits (stem, root total length). Seeds in a laboratory by standard method for germination. When averaged over inq...

Quantifying seed viability is required for seed bank maintenance. The classical methods for detecting seed viability are time consuming and frequently cause seed damage and unwanted germination. We have established a novel micro-optrode technique (MOT) to measure seed viability in a quick and non-invasive manner by measuring the oxygen influxes of intact seeds, approximately 10 seconds to scree...

Abstract Steam-water capillary pressure is often either ignored or determined artificially in geothermal reservoir engineering. However steam-water capillary pressure plays an important role in geothermal reservoir performance and may not be substituted by air-water capillary pressure. To this end, preliminary mathematical models have been developed to calculate drainage and imbibition steam-wa...

The respiration of isolated peanut (Arachis hypogea) embryos has been studied with dry and wet embryos and mitochondria prepared after various times of imbibition. Dry seeds respire slowly, apparently via a respiratory chain which is deficient in cytochrome c. Cytochrome c-deficient mitochondria have been prepared from the embryos up to 16 hours following imbibition. These mitochondria can meta...

A new chemical compound is developed at Petroleum University of Technology to enhance the recovery of the free imbibition process and simultaneously hinder asphaltene precipitation. The compound is tested on heavy oil samples from Marun oil field, Bangestan reservoir. The effects of the chemical compound on viscosity, hydrocarbon composition, and average molecular weight of the heavy oil are in...

Background: This study was conducted to evaluate the surface roughness and dimensional accuracy of commercially obtainable alginate impression material in terms imbibition after immersion two different media. Materials method: Two disinfecting agents, ethanol 70% povidone-iodine 4%, were used access material. Weights specimen discs impressions measured before immediately gain a measure imbibiti...

We describe the imbibition process from a point source into a homogeneous semi-infinite porous material. When body forces are negligible, the advance of the wetting front is driven by capillary pressure and resisted by viscous forces. With the assumption that the wetting front assumes a hemispherical shape, our analytical results show that the absorbed volume flow rate is approximately constant...