On the back cover of Issue 22 we’re featuring research from the Micro and Nano-Scale Transport Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta.
The Reservoir-on-a-Chip, or ROC for short, by Sushanta K. Mitra et al. is a novel miniaturization approach to study oil recovery in a microfluidic device, mimicking the pore structure of a naturally occurring oil-bearing reservoir rock in an etched silicon substrate. The device will enable researchers to better understand pore-scale transport relevant to reservoir engineering.
Download the article for the details:
Reservoir-on-a-Chip (ROC): A new paradigm in reservoir engineering
Naga Siva Kumar Gunda, Bijoyendra Bera, Nikolaos K. Karadimitriou, Sushanta K. Mitra and S. Majid Hassanizadeh
Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 3785-3792
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20556K
This article featured in a recent story on Physorg.com:
‘Discovering oil at micro level’
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-oil-micro.html
Also see the press release via EurekAlert:
“Building a full-scale model of a trapped oil reservoir in a laboratory”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/uoa-baf110711.php
(Original press release from University of Alberta can be found here http://www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=4F178F4AF39F498FB1BD17854F376D42)
….and this!
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/11/roc-20111103.html
Featured in The Chemical Engineer Today:
Oil reservoir on a chip
http://www.tcetoday.com/latest%20news/2011/november/oil%20reservoir%20on%20a%20chip.aspx