Sustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery
Techniques, Case Studies, and Environmental Considerations
- 1st Edition - March 24, 2023
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Author: Mohammadali Ahmadi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 4 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 4 9 - 8
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Request a sales quoteSustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery: Techniques, Case Studies, and Environmental Considerations delivers a critical reference for today’s energy engineers who want to gain an accurate understanding of anticipated GHG emissions in heavy oil recovery. Structured to break down every method with introductions, case studies, technical limitations and summaries, this reference gives engineers a look at the latest hybrid approaches needed to tackle heavy oil recoveries while calculating carbon footprints. Starting from basic definitions and rounding out with future challenges, this book will help energy engineers collectively evolve heavy oil recovery with sustainability applications in mind.
- Explains environmental footprint considerations within each recovery method
- Includes the latest hybrid methods such as Hybrid of Air-CO2N2 and Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS)
- Bridges practical knowledge through case studies, summaries and remaining technical challenges
Petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, petroleum researchers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Chapter One. Heavy oil and bitumen characterization
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Bitumen classification
- 1.3. Bitumen reserves
- 1.4. Bitumen properties
- Chapter Two. Fundamentals of heavy oil and bitumen recovery
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Bitumen recovery techniques
- Chapter Three. Nonthermal heavy oil recovery
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Background
- 3.3. Phase behavior of bitumen–solvent systems
- 3.4. Solvent diffusivity in bitumen
- 3.5. Calculation of solvent diffusion coefficient in bitumen
- 3.6. Scaling-up criteria of the heavy oil production
- Chapter FOUR. In-situ thermal heavy oil recovery
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Background
- 4.3. Conventional steam-based recovery processes
- 4.4. Heat transfer theory
- 4.5. Mathematical modeling of in-situ thermal recovery methods
- 4.6. Transient convective heat transfer
- Chapter Five. In-situ upgrading
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Background
- 5.3. Catalysts for in-situ upgrading
- 5.4. Mechanism
- 5.5. Technical challenges
- Chapter SIX. Solvent-steam coinjection
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Background
- 6.3. Mechanisms involved in solvent-based heavy oil recovery methods
- 6.4. Relative permeability
- 6.5. Solvent-assisted thermal recovery methods
- 6.6. Mathematical modeling of solvent-steam coinjection
- 6.7. Steam-bitumen-solvent phase behavior
- 6.8. Field trials of solvent-steam Coinjection technique
- 6.9. Technical challenges
- Chapter Seven. Noncondensable gas-steam coinjection
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Background
- 7.3. Mechanisms of NCG-steam coinjection
- 7.4. Mathematical modeling of NCG-steam coinjection
- 7.5. Phase equilibrium of bitumen/water/noncondensable gas
- 7.6. Field trials of NCG-steam coinjection technique
- Chapter Eight. Chemical-steam coinjection
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Background
- 8.3. Surfactant screening
- 8.4. Adsorption of chemicals
- 8.5. Thermal stability of chemicals
- 8.6. IFT reduction and wettability alteration
- 8.7. Foam generation
- 8.8. Emulsion generation
- 8.9. Surfactant applications in thermal recovery methods
- 8.10. Molecular mechanisms of surfactant-assisted bitumen recovery
- 8.11. Field trials of surfactant-steam coinjection technique
- 8.12. Technical challenges
- Chapter NINE. Hybrid of in-situ combustion and steam-based heavy oil recovery
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Fundamentals of ISC
- 9.3. Drawbacks of in-situ combustions
- 9.4. Models for in-situ combustion reactions
- 9.5. Hybrid ISC and steam-based bitumen recovery
- 9.6. Field applications
- Chapter TEN. Electromagnetic heating processes for heavy oil and bitumen recovery
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Background
- 10.3. Electrical heating techniques
- 10.4. Electrothermal dynamic stripping process
- 10.5. Thermal-assisted gravity drainage
- 10.6. Low-pressure electrothermally assisted drainage
- 10.7. High-frequency techniques
- 10.8. Hybrid of EM and SAGD
- 10.9. Heating start-up models
- 10.10. Field trials
- 10.11. Techno-economic modeling of ESEIEH process
- Chapter Eleven. Practical challenges in reservoir simulation of in-situ thermal heavy oil recovery
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Mathematical description
- 11.3. Thermal simulation
- 11.4. Critical parameters and mechanisms involving in numerical simulation of thermal bitumen recovery processes
- 11.5. Summary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 24, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 510
- No. of pages (eBook): 510
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323908481
- eBook ISBN: 9780323908498
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Mohammadali Ahmadi
Dr. Mohammadali Ahmadi holds a BSc with distinction (Petroleum University of Technology), an MSc (Petroleum University of Technology) in Petroleum Engineering, and an MEng (Memorial University of Newfoundland) in Process Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary. He published more than 160 papers in highly-ranked ISI journals and served as an invited speaker and session chair for various conferences worldwide. According to a database published in Elsevier publishing group in collaboration with Stanford University, he was named as a top 2% of the most cited scientists from 2018 to 2022. He was the recipient of multiple prestigious awards and scholarships, such as the Vanier scholarship, Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Scholarship, the Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship, and the J. B. Hyne Research Innovation Award. As an Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, and Advisory Board Member, he has served several international chemical engineering and energy-related journals. His research interests include molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, mathematical modeling, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), thermodynamics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning application in the oil and gas industry.
Affiliations and expertise
Vanier Scholar/Killam Laureate, Reservoir Simulation Research Group, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, CanadaRead Sustainable In-Situ Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery on ScienceDirect