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Comprehensive Evaluation Of Novel Medium-Temperature And High-Temperature Resistant Re-Crosslinkable Preformed Particle Gels For Conformance Control, Zhanmiao Zhai

Masters Theses

"Gel treatment has been widely used to control excessive water production and improve oil recovery in mature oilfields. In comparison to traditional preformed particle gel (PPG), re-cross linkable preformed particle gel (RPPG) has a significant advantage in treating abnormal features such as open fractures, fracture-like channels, and void space conduits (VSC). This research provides a comprehensive evaluation of two novel RPPG products developed in our lab: medium-temperature resistant RPPG (MT-RPPG) for a Middle East reservoir and a high-temperature resistant RPPG (HT-RPPG) for North Sea reservoirs (130 ^oC).

We assessed the effect of the monomer types and concentration, pH, salinity, …

Simulation Study On Co2 Enhanced Oil Recovery For Offshore Area In Thailand, Pariwat Wongsriraksa

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Fossil fuels are widely used all over the world. It generates carbon dioxide (CO2) which is one of the main causes for climate change and global warming. One practical technology to reduce CO2 emission is carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) which includes the use of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (CO2EOR) and storage in the geological reservoir. In Thailand, there are some potential geological reservoirs for CO2EOR due to crude properties, depth of the reservoir and oil saturation, especially in the Gulf of Thailand. However, the high temperatures gradient in the Gulf of Thailand can lead to higher minimum …

Effect Of Salinity Contrast Between Formation Water And Injected Low Salinity Water On Low Salinity Waterflooding In Shaly-Sandstone Formation, Sarun Phuenghansaporn

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Low salinity waterflooding is an improving oil recovery technique that is highly mentioned nowadays as it is cost-efficient and environmentally friendly. The technique involves injecting water with lower salinity compared to formation salinity to shift the surface equilibrium toward the liberation of oil from the rock surface. Nevertheless, successful of this technique depends on many parameters especially the presence of clays. Several types of clays can be found in oil reservoirs, and they may react to different cations in inject low salinity in different ways, resulting in different magnitudes of oil recovery. Moreover, the contrast of salinity between formation water …

Pore Pressure Prediction Using Combination Drilling Efficiency And Hydro-Mechanical Specific Energy Methods, Munawir Arge Pratama Otolomo

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Several methods of pore pressure prediction using drilling parameters were introduced and improved to meet the challenges of accurate prediction at a relatively low cost. Knowledge of pore pressure is essential for safe well planning, cost-effective drilling, and operational decision-making. Conventional methods in pore pressure prediction using drilling parameters have limitations on its application of making the normal compaction trendline that is only applicable in clean shale intervals. In this work, the concept of drilling efficiency (DE) and hydro-mechanical specific energy (HMSE) for predicting formation pore pressure is proposed. This method, termed DE-HMSE, is based on the theory that the …

Techno-Economic And Environmental Assessment For Enhancementbiodiesel Production Process Using Rotating Tube Reactor And Dry Washing, Arthit Jarungwongsathien

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The study aims at exploring the potential use of rotating tube reactor (RTR) and performing economic analysis as wells as addressing the challenges associated with the utilization of different feedstocks including of refined palm oil (RPO) and waste cooking oil (WCO) for biodiesel production. The type of feedstock strongly influenced the optimum reaction temperature. For instance, RPO can produce biodiesel in the RTR at room temperature while WCO required the external heat source for biodiesel production at 65°C. In addition, two transesterification steps of WCO were required to achieve 95.16%. Simulation results found that the process intensification using RTR and …

Glycerol Carbonate Production From Glycerol And Diethyl Carbonate: A Comparative Study Between A Separated Reaction/Distillation (Srd) Process And A Reactive Distillation (Rd) Process, Chayanin Sriharuethai

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Glycerol carbonate is one of the valuable products that can be converted from glycerol produced in the biodiesel industry. In this work, the continuous process of glycerol carbonate production via transesterification from crude glycerol and diethyl carbonate will be developed using Aspen Plus simulation. There are two processes to be considered. First, the separated reaction/distillation (SRD) process consists of a continuously stirred tank reactor for the reaction section and a distillation column for the purification section. Second, the reactive distillation (RD) process consists of a reactive distillation column that can accommodate both the reaction and purification in a single column, …

Dual-Ligand Zinc Metal Organic Frameworks-Derived Solid-Electrolyte Interphase For Stable Zinc Anode In Aqueous Electrolytes, Penwuanna Arin

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have attracted attention for energy storage systems because of their high specific capacity, low cost, and safety. However, in mildly acidic aqueous electrolytes, several issues of zinc anodes such as dendrite formation, and corrosion, limit the practical deployment and performance of ZIBs. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is ultrahigh porosity and high internal surface areas. MOFs layer as the solid-electrolyte interphase layer to prevent the zinc anode from attaching directly to the separator. MOFs is used in batteries as the SEI layer because the pores of MOFs efficiently facilitate the diffusion and transport of zinc-ions. In this …

Characteristics And Catalytic Properties Of Copper On Mcf-Si And Sba-15 For Hydrogenation Of Carbon Dioxide, Sirimas Suelueam

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

At present, the production of methanol from the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide is widespread. The current popular catalysts include copper oxide, zinc oxide and aluminum oxide (CZA) catalysts. As the reaction progresses, the catalyst forms coke. This causes the efficiency of the catalyst to decrease. In this study, the copper catalyst on the mesoporus silica support was investigated. This type of support has high thermal stability. Cu catalysts were synthesized on MCF-Si and SBA-15 supports with different pore morphology such as spherical and hexagonal shape, respectively, by wetness impregnation (W) method and incipient wetness impregnation (IW) with a copper loading …

Design Of Process For Recovery Of Gold And Nickel Ions From Wastewater Of Metal Plating Process In Electronics Industry Using Hollow Fiber Supported Liquid Membrane, Wanchalerm Srirachat

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In the manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCBs), electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG) plating is widely applied. During the plating process, excess nickel and gold plating solutions, which adheres to the workpiece, is removed. As a result, economical quantities of nickel and gold ions accumulate in the rinse water baths and can then be collected. In this work, the simultaneously selective extraction and recovery of nickel and gold ions using a single-step operation of hollow fiber supported liquid membrane (HFSLM) technique was studied. Real rinse wastewater from the plating process containing trace nickel ions (Ni(II)) of 15 mg/L and gold …

การแยกปรอทออกจากคอนเดนเสทด้วยเทคโนโลยีเมมเบรนเส้นใยกลวง, วรัญญา พูลแก้ว

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ในการศึกษาวิธีการใหม่ในการแยกปรอทออกจากคอนเดนเสทโดยใช้ระบบเมมเบรนเส้นใยกลวงแบบคอนแทกเตอร์ ตามหลักการและพื้นฐานของการสกัดด้วยตัวทำละลาย โดยสารสกัดเสริมฤทธิ์ของกรดไฮโดรคลอริกและไทโอยูเรียเป็นสารสกัดที่ความเข้มข้น 0.5 โมลต่อลิตร และ 1.5 โมลต่อลิตร ตามลำดับ รูปแบบการไหลในลักษณะสารป้อนไหลผ่านและสารสกัดไหลวน อัตราการไหลที่ 1.67 ลูกบาศก์เซนติเมตรต่อวินาที ที่ อุณหภูมิ 323.15 เคลวิน ผลการศึกษาพบว่าประสบความสำเร็จในการแยกปรอทออกจากคอนเดนเสท ร้อยละการกำจัดปรอทสูงถึง 98.40 ซึ่งความเข้มข้นหลังกำจัดปรอทมีค่าต่ำกว่าค่าที่กำหนด สำหรับป้อนเข้าสู่อุตสาหกรรมปิโตรเคมีและโรงกลั่น คำนวณค่าการเปลี่ยนแปลงเอนทาลปีมาตรฐาน ค่าการเปลี่ยนแปลงเอนโทรปีมาตรฐาน และค่าการเปลี่ยนแปลงพลังงานเสรีของกิ๊บส์มาตรฐานได้ 119.80 กิโลจูลต่อโมล 0.37 กิโลจูลต่อโมล และ -1.15 กิโลจูลต่อโมลตามลำดับ บ่งชี้ว่าปฏิกิริยาการแยกปรอทออกจากคอนเดนเสทเป็น ปฏิกิริยาดูดความร้อน ผันกลับไม่ได้ และสามารถเกิดขึ้นเองที่ 323.15 เคลวิน ปรอทในรูปฟีนิลเมอร์คิวรีคลอไรด์พบมากที่สุดในคอนเดนเสทจากการวิเคราะห์ด้วยเทคนิคทางเสปกโตรสโคปี การประยุกต์ใช้แบบจำลองทางคณิตศาสตร์ อันได้แก่ แบบจำลองทางคณิตศาสตร์ลักษณะการแพร่ และลักษณะปฏิกิริยาเพื่ออธิบายลักษณะการถ่ายเทมวลในระบบเมมเบรนเส้นใยกลวงแบบคอนแทกเตอร์ ผลการคำนวณพบว่าแบบจำลองทางคณิตศาสตร์ลักษณะปฏิกิริยาสอดคล้องกับผลการทดลอง และค่าสัมประสิทธิ์การถ่ายโอนมวลในเมมเบรน และด้านเปลือก คือ 7.45 × 10−6 เซนติเมตรต่อวินาที และ 2.09 × 10−5 เซนติเมตรต่อวินาทีตามลำดับ ซึ่งบ่งชี้ว่าการถ่ายโอนมวลในเมมเบรนเป็นขั้นตอนควบคุม

A Local Mode Study Of Ring Puckering Effects In The Infrared Spectra Of Cyclopentane, Edwin L. Sibert Iii, Peter F. Bernath

Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Publications

We report and interpret recently recorded high-resolution infrared spectra for the fundamentals of the CH₂ scissors and CH stretches of gas phase cyclopentane at −26.1 and −50 ^○C, respectively. We extend previous theoretical studies of this molecule, which is known to undergo barrierless pseudorotation due to ring puckering, by constructing local mode Hamiltonians of the stretching and scissor vibrations for which the frequencies, couplings, and linear dipoles are calculated as functions of the pseudorotation angle using B3LYP/6-311++(d,p) and MP2/cc-pVTZ levels of theory. Symmetrization (D_5h) of the vibrational basis sets leads to simple vibration/pseudorotation Hamiltonians whose solutions …

Type-B Energetic Processes And Their Associated Scientific Implications, James Weifu Lee

Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Recently, our work has identified two thermodynamically distinct types (A and B) of energetic processes naturally occurring on Earth. Type-A energy processes such as the classical heat engines, ATP hydrolysis, and many of the known chemical, electrical, and mechanical processes apparently follow well the second law of thermodynamics; Type-B energy processes, for example, the newly discovered thermotropic function that isothermally utilizes environmental heat energy to do useful work in driving ATP synthesis, follow the first law of thermodynamics (conservation of mass and energy) but do not have to be constrained by the second law, owing to its special asymmetric functions. …

Lignin Valorization Via Reductive Depolymerization Using Promoted Nickel Catalysts And Sub- And Supercritical Methanol, Julia Parker

Theses and Dissertations--Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

While lignin has been regarded as the most promising renewable feedstock for the sustainable manufacture of aromatic compounds, lignin valorization is necessary to improve the economic viability of biorefineries. Reductive catalytic fractionation (RCF), which combines delignification and lignin depolymerization into a single stage while maintaining the structure and integrity of the cellulose component, has evolved as an effective method for processing biomass. The ability of Cu and Fe to promote the performance of a 20% Ni/alumina catalyst when converting native lignin to alkylphenols by RCF in sub- and supercritical methanol was tested. The effectiveness of lignin extraction as measured by …

A Competent Mwcnt-Grafted Mnox/Pt Nanoanode For The Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells, Islam M. Al-Akraa, Ahmad M. Mohammad, Moutaz Mamdouh, Yasser M. Asal

Chemical Engineering

No abstract provided.

A New Comprehensive Dimensionless Inflow Performance Relationship For Gas Wells, Azim Kalantariasl, Isa Farhadi, Soosan Farzani, Alireza Keshavarz

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Prediction of gas well deliverability is important for reservoir management. Conventional flow after flow, isochronal or modified isochronal tests are common methods for calculation of well deliverability. Single-point test using Vogel-type dimensionless inflow performance relationships (IPR) was also proposed to overcome the need for multi-point tests. However, analysis of field data showed that existing dimensionless IPR correlations fail to accurately predict well deliverability for some reservoir conditions. In this study, a wide range of reservoir rock and fluid data was used to develop a comprehensive dimensionless IPR correlation for calculation of gas well deliverability from single-point test data. Multi-point well …

Thermoeconomic Analysis And Multi-Objective Optimization Of A Novel Trigeneration System Consisting Of Kalina And Humidificationdehumidification Desalination Cycles, Pooria Behnam, Meysam Faegh, Iman Fakhari, Pouria Ahmadi, Ehsan Faegh, Marc A. Rosen

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Low-temperature geothermal heat sources have the highest share of geothermal energy in the world. Utilization of these heat sources for energy and freshwater generation can play an important role in meeting energy and freshwater demands. To do so, this study aims to propose a novel trigeneration cycle powered by low-temperature geothermal sources. The proposed system, which is an integration of Kalina and humidification-dehumidification (HDH) cycles, is used for the generation of electricity, heating, and freshwater. For the Kalina cycle, an evaporative condenser is used. It also acts as a humidifier and heater of the humidification-dehumidification desalination cycle, resulting in a …

Artificial Intelligence-Based Material Discovery For Clean Energy Future, Reza Maleki, Mohsen Asadnia, Amir Razmjou

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted materials design and discovery methods can come to the aid of global concerns for introducing new efficient materials in different applications. Also, a sustainable clean future requires a transition to a low-carbon economy that is material-intensive. AI-assisted methods advent as inexpensive and accelerated methods in the design of new materials for clean energies. Herein, the emerging research area of AI-assisted material discovery with a focus on developing clean energies is discussed. The applications, advantages, and challenges of using AI in material discovery are discussed and the future perspective of using AI in clean energy is studied. This …

Molecular Modeling Of High-Performance Thermoset Polymer Matrix Composites For Aerospace Applications, Prathamesh P. Deshpande

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

The global efforts from major space agencies to transport humans to Mars will require a novel lightweight and ultra-high strength material for the spacecraft structure. Three decades of research with the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have proved that the material can be an ideal candidate for the composite reinforcement if certain shortcomings are overcome. Also, the rapid development of the polymer resin industry has introduced a wide range of high-performance resins that show high compatibility with the graphitic surface of the CNTs. This research explores the computational design of these materials and evaluates their efficacy as the next generation of aerospace …

Development Of Advanced Models For Pre-Ignition Prediction In Gas Engines And Analytical Model For Wallfilm Evaporation, Ankith Ullal

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Ever-changing regulations aimed at improving efficiency and reducing harmful emissions have resulted in many power-generation device (engine) manufacturers to adopt new strategies. Computer simulation of these new strategies of power generation requires more accurate and higher fidelity modelling tools. In the present study, two such models are developed. The first model deals with pre-ignition phenomena driven by lubricant (lube) oil in natural gas engines and the second model is relevant to prediction of wallfilm evaporation by employing analytical solutions to transport governing equations for boundary layers.

Pre-ignition in engines has been the subject of current research with the advent of …

Measuring The Physicochemical Properties Of Viral Vectors To Enhance Gene Therapy Production, Oluwatoyin Areo

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Gene therapy is a therapeutic intervention designed to correct single gene disorders. AAV has been identified as a suitable vector for delivering therapeutic genes. However, the use of AAV has been hampered by manufacturing challenges inclusive of low virus recovery, and the presence of AAV without the gene of interest (empty capsids). To solve these problems, we characterized the charge and hydrophobicity of AAV, and surrogate viruses using chemical force microscopy (CFM). CFM uses a modified atomic force microscope (AFM) probe to measure the adhesion force between a virus particle and a functional chemistry.The virus particles to be measured are …