The increasing demand for fossil fuels and the depleting of light crude oil in the next years
generates the need to exploit heavy and unconventional crude oils. To face this challenge …

Heavy oil is estimated to account for about 70% of the remaining oil reserves and
considered as the most promising and readily available oil resource to meet energy …

Oil recovery during in situ combustion is majorly controlled by hydrocarbon oxidation and
pyrolysis reactions, which govern fuel formation and heat evolution. Fuel deposition, in turn …

In Colombia, the estimated reserves of crude oil are approximately 2.0 thousand million
barrels, decreasing by approximately 13% in the last year according to the National …

Using copper stearate as catalysts, catalytic in-situ combustion (ISC) of heavy oil was
studied by porous medium thermo-effect cell (PMTEC) and combustion tube experiments …

Air injection as a thermal method for heavy oil recovery has a long history of about a century.
However, it has not been widely applied in oilfields to date because of many challenges …

Indoor VOCs pollution has attracted broad attention for its harm to mankind's health recent
years. Photocatalytic degradation of indoor VOCs holds great prospects in addressing these …

An exhaustive review on the application of different metal-based nanoparticles for the
upgrading of heavy oils has been performed. Particular emphasis has been put on those …

To understand the effect of reducibility of transition metal oxides (TMOs) on tar conversion,
four TMOs including Fe 2 O 3, MnO x, CuO, and NiO were selected and in-situ oxidative …

In recent years, protection of the environment from activities associated with enhanced oil
recovery has been considered a crucial priority for decision-makers in the international …