Nanofluidics for Energy

能源纳米流体

• 批准号: RGPIN-2015-06701
• 负责人: Sinton, David
• 金额: $ 5.03万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=638296
• 关键词: Nanofluidics; Energy

Many large scale energy applications rely on small scale fluid transport. Over the last few years our group and others have developed microfluidic approaches for bioenergy, carbon sequestration, reservoir fluid analysis, and quantifying pore-scale transport in conventional microporous oil and gas reservoirs. Current global energy, however, is being reshaped by unconventional oil and gas operations, namely the hydraulic fracturing of nanoporous shale gas and tight oil reservoirs. Transport of fluids in fractured reservoirs is a complex interplay of multicomponent multiphase flow through both nano-pores and micro-fractures, which may be wetting or non-wetting, at high temperature and pressure. This is a very complicated process that is poorly understood.

许多大规模的能源应用依赖于小规模的流体输送。在过去的几年里，我们的团队和其他人已经开发了微流体方法，用于生物能源，碳封存，储层流体分析，以及量化常规微孔油气藏中的孔隙尺度运输。然而，目前的全球能源正在被非常规石油和天然气作业重塑，即纳米多孔页岩气和致密油藏的水力压裂。裂缝性储层中流体的运移是多组分多相流在高温高压下通过纳米孔隙和微裂缝的复杂相互作用，其可以是润湿的或非润湿的。这是一个非常复杂的过程，人们对此知之甚少。