Fueling a carbon-zero future: Igniting hydrogen production from petroleum reservoirs via in-situ combustion gasification

MA Ifticene, K Yan, Q Yuan - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogen (H 2) is increasingly recognized worldwide as a pivotal, clean energy carrier
essential for decarbonizing various sectors, including transportation, power generation, and …

Sunflower oil as renewable biomass source to develop highly effective oil-soluble catalysts for in-situ combustion of heavy oil

A Tajik, A Farhadian, MA Khelkhal… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In-situ combustion has received much attention in the last few decades for enhanced heavy
oil recovery processes. Although a wide part of research efforts has only focused on the …

Effect of copper stearate as catalysts on the performance of in-situ combustion process for heavy oil recovery and upgrading

MA Varfolomeev, C Yuan, AV Bolotov… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Crude oil oxidation in an air injection based enhanced oil recovery process: Chemical reaction mechanism and catalysis

C Yuan, W Pu, MA Ifticene, S Zhao… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
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 …

Low-temperature oxidation of heavy crude oil characterized by TG, DSC, GC-MS, and negative ion ESI FT-ICR MS

S Zhao, W Pu, X Peng, J Zhang, H Ren - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Low-temperature oxidation (LTO) is of great significance for the subsequent oxidation
reactions and oil recovery during in-situ combustion. The paper brings an in-depth analysis …

Simulation of hydrogen generation via in-situ combustion gasification of heavy oil

P Song, Y Li, Z Yin, MA Ifticene, Q Yuan - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean hydrogen (H 2) energy, new emerging technologies
for in-situ H 2 production from hydrocarbon reservoirs have attracted the attention of …

Comparative evaluation on the thermal behaviors and kinetics of combustion of heavy crude oil and its SARA fractions

S Zhao, W Pu, B Sun, F Gu, L Wang - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
In situ combustion (ISC) plays a significant role in the exploitation of heavy crude oil. In this
study, the thermal behaviors and kinetics of combustion of heavy crude oil and its saturates …

Hydrothermal liquefaction of food waste: effect of process parameters on product yields and chemistry

H Bayat, M Dehghanizadeh, JM Jarvis… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Increasing food waste generation (1.6 billion tons per year globally) due to urban and
industrial development has prompted researchers to pursue alternative waste management …

Oxidation behaviors of Hongqian heavy crude oil characterized by TG-DSC-FTIR-MS within full temperature regions

L Wang, T Wang, Y Zhang, X Peng, W Song, J Yang… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
To better understand in-situ combustion (ISC) theory and reveal the oxidation behavior and
mechanism of Hongqian (HQ) heavy crude oil, the thermo-oxidative characteristics and …

In-situ combustion technique for develo** fractured low permeable oil shale: Experimental evidence for synthetic oil generation and successful propagation of …

AV Bolotov, C Yuan, MA Varfolomeev, UH Taura… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The idea of in-situ combustion (ISC) for oil shale development and conversion has been
proposed recently. Due to the low permeability of oil shale, it usually requires fracturing …