RICE UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR PROCESSES IN POROUS MEDIA SPRING 2015 I nves tor News l etter Annual Newsletter for the Rice University Consortium For Processes in Porous Media We are please to kick off the MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR inaugural newsletter that highlights some of our activities The goal of this consortium is to from this past year. Our team of engaged in collaborative faculty, staff scientists, and research to advance the students have made a number of fundamental understanding of advancements understanding Research Highlight: Biswal and Hiraski awarded STS-AICHE Best Fundamental Paper for visualizing bubble flow in individual pores This past year, the South core research areas include the processes in porous media. In particular, projects this year have Texas Section of the American study of surfactant and foam focused on: Institute of Chemical Engineers porous media processes. Our Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) ✦Chemical enhanced oil awarded their annual best processes, asphaltene recovery - in particular fundamental paper award for deposition, NMR studies of core surfactant stabilized foam their work in visualizing the flow samples, core analysis, methane ✦Foam gas hydrates and carbon ✦Low capture and storage. As the ✦Wettability Alteration Director of this research ✦Adsorption and surfactant consortium, I thank you for your support of our research mobility control interfacial tension foam retention onto different mineral surfaces and welcome you to potential ✦The opportunities for collaboration ✦Visualization and participation. use of sacrificial agents of transport processes at the pore-scale ✦Developing models for 1-D and 2-D foam transport ✦Molecular modeling of surfactant interfacial behavior ✦Nanotechnology media processes - George Hirasaki www.owlnet.rice.edu/~gjh/Consortium/ for porous and deformation of individual bubbles through a single pore: “Neighbor-induced bubble pinch-off: novel mechanisms of in situ foam generation in microfluidic channels" published in Soft Matter, 2013, 9, 10971 by Rachel Liontas, Kun Ma, George J. Hirasaki, and Sibani Lisa Biswal Watch the video at http://youtu.be/-TJocLRaGZU Save the Date: 19th Annual Consortium Meeting will take place Wednesday April 22, 2015 at 8am in Duncan Hall at Rice University Houston, TX RICE UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR PROCESSES IN POROUS MEDIA News Flood Damage The Hirasaki laboratory was flood this past August from broken plumbing. This was a mixed blessing. We had to work in temporary space for 6 months but we were able to replace everything that was damaged damaged from the water. This includes replacing the two 20 year old NMR spectrometer with a new Oxford 2 MHz spectrometer with probes that can measure short relaxation times for oil and gas shale. We are negotiating to have an experienced NMR research scientist join us as well as a young visiting professor from China. We expect to showcase many of the new core flooding apparatus during a lab tour at the annual meeting. Welcome new staff We added two new Ph.D. students to join projects related to the consortium projects. Three postdocs and two visiting professors have also recently joined on our group. Good-bye! We had four students graduate this past year: ✦ Dr. Charles Conn and Dr. Aparna Raju Sagi joined Shell Westhollow Technology Center in Houston, TX. ✦ Dr. Leyu Cui joined Total in Pau, France. ✦ Hadi Shams Jazayi joined Clariant Oil Services in Houston, TX. New Consortium! This past year, our newest faculty member, Francisco Vargas, established a Consortium on Petroleum Thermodynamics and Flow Assurance. www.vargaslab.org/ptfac/ www.owlnet.rice.edu/~gjh/Consortium/ Publications ✦ Cui, L., Puerto, M., López-Salinas, J. L., Biswal, S. L., & Hirasaki, G. J. (2014). Improved Methylene Blue TwoPhase Titration Method for Determining Cationic Surfactant Concentration in High-Salinity Brine. Analytical Chemistry, 86(22), 11055-11061. ✦ Conn, C. A., Ma, K., Hirasaki, G. J., & Biswal, S. L. (2014). Visualizing oil displacement with foam in a microfluidic device with permeability contrast. Lab on a Chip, 14(20), 3968-3977. ✦ ShamsiJazeyi, H., Verduzco, R., & Hirasaki, G. J. (2014). Reducing adsorption of anionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery: Part I. Competitive adsorption mechanism. Colloids asnd Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 453, 162-167. ✦ Ma, K., Farajzadeh, R., LopezSalinas, J. L., Miller, C. A., Biswal, S. L., & Hirasaki, G. J. (2014). Nonuniqueness, Numerical Artifacts, and Parameter Sensitivity in Simulating Steady-State and Transient Foam Flow Through Porous Media. Transport in porous media, 102(3), 325-348. ✦ Chen, Yunshen, et al. "Switchable Nonionic to Cationic Ethoxylated Amine Surfactants for CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in High-Temperature, High-Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs." SPE Journal 19.02 (2014): 249-259. ✦ Kini, G. C., Yu, J., Wang, L., Kan, A. T., Biswal, S. L., Tour, J. M., ... & Wong, M. S. (2014). Salt-and temperature-stable quantum dot nanoparticles for porous media flow. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 443, 492-500. SPRING 2015 FACULTY ✦ George ✦ Ed Hirasaki : Director Billups ✦ Lisa Biswal ✦ Walter Chapman ✦ Clarence Miller ✦ James Tour ✦ Francisco Vargas ✦ Rafael Verduzco ✦ Scott Wellington ✦ Michael Wong STAFF ✦ Maura Puerto ✦ Annie Wang ✦ Indra Mukherjee ✦ Suvasree ✦ Bin Mukherjee Huang ✦ Cheng Fu ✦ Zhen Wang Contact Us: Porous Media Consortium 6100 Main St. MS 362 Houston, TX 77005 Ph: 713-348-5416 [email protected] PDF copies of research articles are available upon request Houston, TX
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