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Dr. George HirasakiWelcome to Rice University's Consortium for Processes in Porous Media. We are a group of Rice University faculty, staff and students engaged in collaborative research with industry partners and various academic researchers. Our core research areas include the study of surfactant and foam Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes, asphaltene deposition, NMR studies of core samples, core analysis, methane gas hydrates and carbon capture and storage. As the Director of this research consortium, I thank you for your interest in our research and welcome you to potential opportunities for collaboration and participation.
                                                                                                                                         Dr. George Hirasaki

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17th Annual Consortium Meeting

The 17th Annual meeting of the Rice University Consortium for Processes in Porous Media was Monday, April 29, 2013.

  • 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

 

16th Annual Consortium Meeting; April 23, 2012

Latest News

  • Guangsheng Gu publishes on Gas hydrates research in Nature magazine. (Link: 1)
  • Sayantan Chatterjee published on Gas hydrates research in Journal of Geophysical research - Solid Earth (Link: 2)
  • Sumedh Warudkar leads a winning, $1 million Department of Energy proposal for research on Carbon Capture (Link: 3)
  • Sumedh Warudkar is awarded the International Student of Excellence by the International Trade Center, Houston. (Link: 4)