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Microbial enhanced oil recovery
, 2015 Oil is a crucial source of energy and one of the main factors driving the world’s economy. Currently, oil production technologies recover only about 40% of the oil originally present in the reservoirs.
Gudiña, Eduardo J. +2 more
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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu +5 more
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Imbibition of anionic surfactant solution into oil-wet matrix in fractured reservoirs
, 2013 textWater-flooding in water-wet fractured reservoirs can recover significant amounts of oil through capillary driven imbibition. Unfortunately, many of the fractured reservoirs are mixed-wet/oil-wet and water-flooding leads to poor recovery as the ...
Mirzaei Galeh Kalaei, Mohammad
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EnergiesAs an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique, alkali/surfactant/polymer (ASP) flooding effectively mitigates production decline in mature oilfields through chemical flooding mechanisms. The breakthrough of ASP chemical agents poses challenges to the green
Jiawei Zhu +5 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong +2 more
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Mitigating the energy crisis using simulation for enhanced oil recovery: analyzing oil fields grain by grain [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper, we address some of the very real challenges facing a world with an ever increasing appetite for oil. Finite global oil reserves pose an impending threat to our way of life and improving on the current inefficiency of the oil recovery ...
Williams, John R. +2 more
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Mineral composition and pore structure on spontaneous imbibition in tight sandstone reservoirs
Scientific ReportsThe pore structure of tight oil reservoirs is extremely complex, with a wide range of pore sizes, diverse pore types, and well-developed nanopores and throats.
Chen Yang, Erlong Yang
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Investigation of Suitable Surfactants in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) [PDF]
, 2005 This Final Year Research Project involves the study of the various Enhanced Oil recovery techniques with special emphasis on the use of surfactants in enhanced oil recovery.
Seli, Phyllis
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, 2015 Alkaline-Surfactant-Foam (ASF) flooding is a recently introduced enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method. This paper presents laboratory study of this ASF to better understand its mechanisms. The focus is on the interaction of ASF chemical agents with oil and
Zitha, P.L.J. (author) +5 more
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