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Article: Research from University of Calgary reveals new findings on chemical engineering.
- Article from:
- Journal of Engineering
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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"For both CO2 enhanced oil recovery and CO2 sequestration in oil reservoirs, the diffusion of injected CO2 into oil-saturated porous media is of great significance ill project design, risk assessments, economic evaluation, and performance forecast. However, the measurement of CO2 diffusion coefficient in liquid-saturated porous media under reservoir conditions has not been well-established due to the complications caused by density-induced natural convection in the CO2-oil systems," scientists in Calgary, Canada report.
"This paper presented a new method for measuring the effective CO2 diffusion coefficient in oil-saturated porous media under reservoir ...