Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Dudek, Marcin"
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Colloid chemistry and experimental techniques for understanding fundamental behaviour of produced water in oil and gas production
Dudek, Marcin; Vik, Eilen Arctander; Aanesen, Svein Viggo; Øye, Gisle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Due to increasing volumes of produced water and environmental concerns related to its discharge, water treatment has become a major challenge during the production of crude oil and natural gas. With continuously stricter ... -
Control of a Continuous Flow Microreactor: Comparison of Decentralized PI-control, PI-control With Decoupling, and MPC
Landbø, Hege (Master thesis, 2021)Mikroreaktor-teknologi har sett en sterk økning i popularitet innenfor akademisk og industriell forskning de siste tiårene. De små dimensjonene introduserer mange fordeler og muligheter. Parallelt med økningen i antall ... -
Development of a microfluidic method to study enhanced oil recovery by low salinity water flooding
Saadat, Marzieh; Tsai, Peichun Amy; Ho, Tsai-Hsing; Øye, Gisle; Dudek, Marcin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Microfluidics is an appealing method to study processes at rock pore scale such as oil recovery due to the similar size range. It also offers several advantages over the conventional core flooding methodology, for example, ... -
The effect of upstream inlet choking and surfactant addition on the performance of a novel parallel pipe oil-water separator
Skjefstad, Håvard Slettahjell; Dudek, Marcin; Øye, Gisle; Stanko, Milan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper reports the effect of inlet choking and addition of surfactant on the performance of a parallel pipe oil-water separator. These two issues can have a strong effect on oil-water separation in real hydrocarbon ... -
Emulsions in porous media from the perspective of produced water re-injection – A review
Azizov, Ilgar; Dudek, Marcin; Øye, Gisle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)During offshore production, it is typical to discharge produced water into the sea after treating it to a level that meets environmental regulations. A growth in the volumes of produced water and increasingly stringent ... -
Experimental investigation of droplet breakage in the oil-in-water emulsion in a stirred tank
Moon, Seok Ki (Master thesis, 2018)In the modern oil and gas industry, the amount of produced water becomes major issues as its production is increased, especially in the matured field. To dispose produced water to the sea or utilize it for re-injection ... -
Flocculation-on-a-chip: produced water studied by advanced microfluidic methods
Ullaland, Hanne Skudal (Master thesis, 2020)Produsert vann, bestående av dispergert olje, er et betydelig biprodukt fra oljeproduksjonen. Det er viktig å fjerne den dispergerte oljen fra det produserte vannet før det kan tømmes ut eller reinjiseres, og det produserte ... -
Influence of the Crude Oil and Water Compositions on the Quality of Synthetic Produced Water
Dudek, Marcin; Kancir, Eugènie; Øye, Gisle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Produced water originates from crude oil production. It is a mixture of organic and inorganic compounds, and its composition is highly oilfield-dependent. The present study was carried out to increase the understanding of ... -
INJECTION OF SYNTHETIC PRODUCED WATER INTO POROUS MEDIA - A study of transport of dispersed components through simulated reservoir packs
Joseph, Prajin (Master thesis, 2018)Produced water(PW) contributes to the largest volume byproduct from the oil production industry. The presence of hazardous chemicals makes the handling of PW an important and costly operation. Methods such as discharge ... -
Introducing Video-Recorded Lab Experiments into Assignments for Surface and Colloid Chemistry Students
Dudek, Marcin; Raghunathan, Karthik; Regli, Samuel K.; Norrman, Jens; Øye, Gisle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This communication describes our initial experience modifying traditional (written and calculation-based) assignments in the surface and colloid chemistry course given as a part of the chemical engineering program. The new ... -
Lignosulfonates in Crude Oil Processing: Interactions with Asphaltenes at the Oil/Water Interface and Screening of Potential Applications
Simon, Sebastien Charles; Saadat, Marzieh; Ruwoldt, Jost; Dudek, Marcin; Ellis, Ross J.; Øye, Gisle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The goal of this article is to test the potential application of lignosulfonates (LSs) in crude oil production and processing. Three LS samples of varying hydrophobicity and average molecular weight were considered. First, ... -
Microfluidic droplet detection via region-based and single-pass convolutional neural networks with comparison to conventional image analysis methodologies.
Rutkowski, Gregory Philip; Azizov, Ilgar; Unmann, Evan; Dudek, Marcin; Grimes, Brian Arthur (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)As the complexity of microfluidic experiments and the associated image data volumes scale, traditional feature extraction approaches begin to struggle at both detection and analysis pipeline throughput. Deep-neural networks ... -
Microfluidic Interfacial Tension
Selvik, Veslemøy (Master thesis, 2022)En metode for å måle overflatespenning ved hjelp av microfluidics har blitt utviklet. Utviklingen av modellen følger metodikk publisert i litteraturen. En ikke-ionisk surfaktant ble brukt for å manipulere overflatespenning ... -
Microfluidic Investigation of Crude Oil Droplet Coalescence: Effect of Oil/Water Composition and Droplet Aging
Dudek, Marcin; Chicault, Julien; Øye, Gisle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The coalescence between crude oil droplets is a major factor influencing the efficiency of most produced water treatment processes. As the droplets grow bigger in size, it is easier to remove them from the continuous water ... -
Microfluidic investigation of enhanced oil recovery: The effect of aqueous floods and network wettability
Saadat, Marzieh; Yang, Junyi; Dudek, Marcin; Øye, Gisle; Tsai, Peichun Amy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Rock wettability significantly influences underground oil extraction efficiency during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes. We experimentally examine the effect of wettability on oil recovery at pore-scale using ... -
Microfluidic method for determining drop-drop coalescence and contact times in flow
Dudek, Marcin; Fernandes, Diana; Herø, Eirik Helno; Øye, Gisle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Coalescence kinetics is an important parameter when describing the stability of dispersions. A number of methods to measure coalescence time are available, however they often take long time and do not allow working with ... -
Microfluidic methods for studying oil recovery by aqueous floods at different wettability, temperature and pressure conditions
Saadat, Marzieh (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:78, Doctoral thesis, 2021)To keep up with the energy consumption in the world and recover sustainably from the currently developed oil fields, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods have been proven important. To be able to test the processes and new ... -
A Microfluidic Study of Droplet And Particle Retention: A Path from the Rationale to Pore-Scale Experiments
Azizov, Ilgar (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:291, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Produced water is the major byproduct of oil and gas production, containing a number of components that can be harmful to the environment, e.g., dispersed particles, dispersed oil, dissolved organics. Re-injection is an ... -
A microfluidic study of oil displacement in porous media at elevated temperature and pressure
Saadat, Marzieh; Vikse, Nora Birgitte; Øye, Gisle; Dudek, Marcin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Microfluidics methods offer possibilities for visual observations of oil recovery processes. Good control over test parameters also provides the opportunity to conduct tests that simulate representative reservoir conditions. ... -
Microfluidic Study on the Attachment of Crude Oil Droplets to Gas Bubbles
Dudek, Marcin; Øye, Gisle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Gas flotation is often used during treatment of the oilfield produced water. It relies on the generation of gas bubbles and their attachment to oil drops, for example, by forming an oil film on the surface of a gas bubble. ...