Gas exsolution and flow during supersaturated water injection in porous media: II. Column experiments and continuum modeling

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-25

  Enouy, R ^a   Li, M ^a   Ioannidis, M A ^a   Unger, A J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bubble; Degassing; Ganglion dynamics; Mass transfer; Percolation; Relative permeability

Indexed keywords

AIR SPARGING; ALTERNATIVE PROCESS; AQUEOUS PHASE; BUBBLE; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONTINUUM MODELING; DISSOLVED GAS; EXSOLUTION; GANGLION DYNAMICS; GAS CLUSTERS; GAS PHASIS; GAS RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; GAS-WATER; GASPHASE; GLASS BEAD; IN-SITU; INITIAL SATURATION; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; MASS TRANSFER CORRELATION; MOBILE GAS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; PERCOLATION; PORE-SCALE SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIA; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SUBSURFACE PRESSURE; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; COALESCENCE; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEGASSING; DISSOLUTION; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; GAS PERMEABILITY; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICA; SILICA SAND; SOLVENTS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WATER INJECTION;

GASES;

DEGASSING; DISSOLUTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSFER; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; PERCOLATION; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 78650171301     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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