Review of recent advances in petroleum fluid properties and their representation

B Dindoruk, RR Ratnakar, J He - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
It is well-known that petroleum fluid properties (also known as Pressure-Temperature-
Volume-PVT) is needed for many petroleum engineering and other interdisciplinary …

Molecular dynamics investigation of DME assisted CO2 injection to enhance shale oil recovery in inorganic nanopores

L Wang, Y Zhang, R Zou, R Zou, L Huang, Y Liu… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
In view of the unsatisfactory improvement effect of pure CO 2 injection on the shale oil
recovery in microscopic pores, the molecular dynamics method was used to simulate the …

A semi-compositional approach to model asphaltene precipitation and deposition in solvent-based bitumen recovery processes

M Chai, H Nourozieh, Z Chen, M Yang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), as a commercially proven high ultimate recovery
process for heavy oil and bitumen is energy intensive and may be limited by high usage of …

Phase behavior and physical properties of dimethyl ether/water/heavy-oil systems under reservoir conditions

D Huang, R Li, D Yang - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
Phase behavior and physical properties including saturation pressures, swelling factors
(SFs), phase volumes, dimethyl ether (DME) partition coefficients, and DME solubility for …

A novel computational strategy to estimate CO2 solubility in brine solutions for CCUS applications

RR Ratnakar, V Chaubey, B Dindoruk - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimation of CO 2 solubility in brine is crucial to various CCUS (carbon capture utilization
and storage) applications, especially for engineering design of the physical/chemical …

Role of Computational Science in Materials and Systems Design for Sustainable Energy Applications: An Industry Perspective

S Maheshwari, S Shetty, R Ratnakar… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022 - Springer
Computational sciences have been utilized by scientist and engineers from various
disciplines to provide solutions to real world problems, in fulfilling the energy demands as …

Dimethyl ether as an additive to steam for improved steam-assisted gravity drainage

K Sheng, R Okuno, M Wang - SPE Journal, 2018 - onepetro.org
Coinjection of solvent with steam results in lower chamber-edge temperatures than those in
steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), which enables the decrease of heat losses to the …

Dimethyl ether as a novel solvent for bitumen recovery: mechanisms of improved mass transfer and energy efficiency

M Yang, M Chai, R Qi, Z Chen, L Zhang, X Yu - SPE Journal, 2022 - onepetro.org
A solvent-based thermal recovery process has the advantages of low capital expenditure,
less energy consumption, and less greenhouse gas emission. Dimethyl ether (DME), as a …

On the prediction of gas solubility in brine solutions with single or mixed salts: Applications to gas injection and CO2 capture/sequestration

RR Ratnakar, A Venkatraman, A Kalra… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2020 - Elsevier
Estimation of gas solubility in a brine solution is essential for many chemical/petroleum
industrial applications including EOR with gas injection, geological storage of CO2 in deep …

Phase behaviour and physical properties of dimethyl ether (DME)/flue gas/water/heavy oil systems under reservoir conditions

Y Li, D Huang, X Dong, D Yang - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of a mixture of dimethyl ether (DME) and flue gas (ie, CO 2+ N 2) is a
promising method to recover heavy oil; however, the phase behaviour and physical …