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Archieved Presentations from the 17th Annual Meeting; 2013

The 17th Annual meeting of the Rice University Consortium for Processes in Porous Media was held on April 29th, 2013. The presentations made at the meeting have been archieved here.

  • 7:45 Coffee - Duncan Hall
  • 8:00 Welcome - Dean Ned Thomas; Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering
  • 8:10 Rice University Energy and Environment Initiative - George McLendon; Provost
  • 8:20 Introduction by President David Leebron; NorTex: Research Collaboration Norway-Texas partnering with Industry Challenges- Jostein Mykletun, C.G. of Norway
  • 8:30 The Norwegian - Texas Collaboration on CO2 EOR - Dr. Arne Graue, University of Bergen
  • 8:40 State of the Consortium - Dr. George Hirasaki
  • 8:50 Nanoparticles for Oil Detection and Recovery - Dr. James Tour: Chemistry Department
  • 9:10 Novel Bubble Pinch-Off Mechanisms - Dr. Lisa Biswal
  • 9:25 Estimation of parameters for the simulation of foam flow - Kun Ma
           Code for foam parameter estimation and simulation
  • 9:45 Coffee
  • 10:00 The effect of surfactant distribution in foam flooding - Yongchao Zeng
  • 10:20 Visualizing Oil Displacement in Porous Media Micromodels - Charles Conn
  • 10:40 Minimum pressure gradient for viscoelastic surfactant foam in porous media - Aarthi Muthuswamy
  • 11:00 CO2 Mobility Control in Carbonate Cores - Leyu Cui
  • 11:20 Surfactant system selection to generate foam for EOR application - AmirHosein Valiollahzadeh
  • 11:40 Quantitative and Qualitative study of foams for EOR applications - Jose Lopez
  • 12:00 Lunch
  • 1:00 EOR by Using Mixtures of Anionic-Cationic Surfactants - Dr. Yingcheng Li, SINOPEC
  • 1:20 Evaluation of an ASP Prospect - Ding Lei
  • 1:35 Sacrificial Agent for Reducing Adsorption of Anionic Surfactants - Hadi Shamsi Jazeyi
  • 1:55 Surfactant EOR in fractured carboante reservoirs - Aparna Raju Sagi
  • 2:15 Improved Absorbents for CO2 Capture - Sumedh Warudkar
  • 2:35 Coffee
  • 2:50 Property Scaling Relations for Nonpolar Hydrocarbons - Sai Panuganti
  • 3:10 Application of asphaltene deposition tool (ADEPT) simulator to field cases - Yi Chen
  • 3:30 Recommendations from Consortium Members for Future Research
  • 4:00 Laboratory Tour
  • 6:30 Reception at home of Consul General of Norway, Jostein Mykletun

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