This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results-
Effect of Volume Translation on Two-Phase Equilibrium Calculations for Hydrocarbon Mixtures in a Confined Space
DownloadSpring 2020
Oil production from tight/shale reservoirs has drawn an increasing attention over the past decades. One of the essential mechanisms affecting the oil/gas production is the phase behavior of the reservoir fluids in the confined nanopores inside the tight/shale reservoirs. Many theoretical works...
-
Fall 2022
Natural gas hydrates are solid crystalline mixtures of water and small gas molecules that typically form at relatively low temperatures and moderate pressures. As a promising energy resource, the natural gas hydrates are discovered in many offshore and permafrost geological formations. Besides,...
-
Investigating Light Solvent Aided Process in Cold Lake Oil-Sand Reservoir Using Experimental and Numerical Approaches
DownloadSpring 2019
Steam assisted- gravity drainage (SAGD) is the main in-situ bitumen recovery process in which saturated steam is injected into the bitumen zone. However, it has some drawbacks, which include high-energy consumption and significant environmental concerns. Solvent Aided Process (SAP) is a method...
-
Fall 2021
Accurately predicting CO2 solubility in saline aquifers is very important for CO2 capture and storage. A reliable and accurate thermodynamic model is needed to accurately predict the phase behavior of the CO2+brine systems over a wide range of temperature, pressure, and molality. This study aims...
-
Phase Behavior, Adsorption Behavior and Interfacial Properties of Fluids in Shale Reservoirs
DownloadFall 2018
Shale oil/gas resources are becoming an increasingly important energy resource. Compared to conventional reservoirs, shale generally consists of a large proportion of organic matters. Organic matter is mainly comprised of kerogen, within which a significant amount of nanopores may reside. Due to...
-
Spring 2021
This thesis experimentally investigates the phase-change behavior of hydrocarbons in various categories of the porous system. The experimental journey was initiated by studying the boiling behavior of single-component hydrocarbon liquids (heptane and decane) and water in silica-glass Hele-Shaw...
-
Towards Accurate Density and Interfacial Tension Modeling for Carbon Dioxide/Water Mixtures
DownloadFall 2020
Phase behavior of carbon dioxide/water (CO2/H2O) binary mixtures plays an important role in various CO2-based industry processes, including CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery and CO2 storage in saline aquifers. Engineering design of such processes requires an appropriate thermodynamic model...