Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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A Numerical Study of Density-Unstable Reverse Circulation Displacement for Primary Cementing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Primary cementing of the casing string is the operation where the annular space behind the casing is displaced to a cement slurry. Once hardened, the cement should form a solid annular barrier and provide zonal isolation ... -
Global Trends in Heavy Oil and Bitumen Recovery and In-Situ Upgrading: A Bibliometric Analysis During 1900–2020 and Future Outlook
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Bitumen and heavy oil are energy resources with high viscosities, high densities, and high metals and heteroatoms content. This paper reports a bibliometric survey to investigate the historic trends and the future pattern ... -
Effect of Interfacial Tension on Relative Permeability Curves Obtained by Considering Surfactant Adsorption and Diffusion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)To consider the effect of adsorption and diffusion of surfactant on relative permeability, a method for estimating the relative permeability was developed by matching production data obtained through an unsteady-state core ... -
Pressure Drop Model and Jet Features of Ultra High Pressure Water Jet for Downhole Intensifier
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Existing models can hardly provide a reliable guidance in designing intensifier utilizing axial vibration energy of drill strings. The formation process of jet and the pulsation characteristics of flow field had not been ... -
Production Behavior Evaluation on Inclined Well in Commingled Carbonate Gas Reservoir With Multiple Heterogeneous Layers Without Crossflow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)To estimate production behaviors of inclined well in multilayer heterogeneous carbonate gas reservoir, two semi-analytical models for different formation distribution patterns are proposed, which are named as model I and ... -
Development of Digital Twins for Drilling Fluids: Local Velocities for Hole Cleaning and Rheology Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this work, we present our advances to develop and apply digital twins for drilling fluids and associated wellbore phenomena during drilling operations. A drilling fluid digital twin is a series of interconnected models ... -
Temperature Response Characteristics of the Production Profile for Multilayered Gas Wells Based on Distributed Temperature Sensing Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The distributed temperature sensing (DTS) is used to overcome the defects of traditional production profile testing technology and realize the real-time and accurate temperature monitoring of complex underground reservoirs. ... -
Study on the Main Controlling Factors and Formation Mechanism of Motion States of Bottom Hole Assembly in Slightly Deviated Wells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)With the further development of deep oil and gas resources, the deep and ultra-deep wells are used widely, which make lateral vibration of bottom hole assembly (BHA) more violent. Lateral vibration greatly restricts the ... -
Flame Spread Pulsation Characteristics of Transformer Oil Vertical Spill Fire
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)To investigate the effects of fuel discharge rate and initial fuel temperature on flame pulsation characteristics of vertical spill fire, a series of experiments under continuous leakage conditions are conducted on a ... -
Box-Behnken Response Surface Methodology Based Multi-Objective Optimization on Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Engine Characteristics Powered With Ternary Fuel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The purpose of this study is to examine the reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) engine combustion characteristics using jatropha oil blended with diesel as the high reactivity and n-amyl alcohol as the low ... -
Experimental Study on the Effect of Injection Timing on a Dual Fuel Diesel Engine Operated With Biogas Derived From Food Waste
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The present work emphasizes the effects of injection timing on the characteristics of a 5.2-kW powered four-stroke diesel engine using biogas and its heat loss analysis. The biogas is obtained from food waste consisting ... -
A Hybrid Approach Using Design of Experiment and Artificial Neural Network in a Camless Heavy-Duty Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Increasingly stricter emission regulations and fleet CO2 targets drive the engine development toward clean combustion and high efficiency. To achieve this goal, planning and conducting experiments in a time- and cost-effective ... -
Numerical Simulation and Experimental Investigation of the Fixed Bed Gasification of Char With Focus on Pore Diffusion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Accurate modeling of the reaction rate of char particles is decisive for precise computational fluid dynamics simulations of gasifiers. Pore diffusion limits the reaction rate at medium temperatures and strongly depends ... -
Study on Leak Detection Model and Influencing Factors of Vehicle Fuel Evaporation System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The evaporative emission and leak of vehicle fuel cause serious pollution to the environment. In order to find out the main influencing factors of the leak detection process of vehicle fuel evaporation system, the leak ... -
Development and Analysis of an Integrated Mild/Partial Gasification Combined Cycle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Around 50% of the world’s electrical power supply comes from the Rankine cycle, and the majority of existing Rankine cycle plants are driven by coal. Given how unattractive coal is as an energy resource in spite of its ... -
Thermodynamic Correlation of the Entropy of Bose–Einstein Condensation Transition to the Lambda Points of Superfluids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this work, the authors show an apparent connection in the behaviors of superfluid Helium in its two stable isotopes, where the lambda transition to superfluidity is seen to correspond to a theoretical Bose–Einstein ... -
Relay Upgrading of Biomass Producer Gas Via Shift-Methanation Plus CO2 Adsorption in a Symbiotic Fixed-Bed Reactor: Concept Proposition and Numerical Visualization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Producer gas from biomass gasification is a feasible supplementary source to overcome the shortage of energy supply. However, the relatively high CO content and low heating value greatly restrict raw biomass producer gas ... -
Modeling and Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of Reflective Film and Vacuum on the Performance of Concentric Double Tube Direct Flow Solar Collector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The present study is focused on investigating experimentally and numerically the four versions of a concentric double tube solar collector with and without vacuum, and with and without a reflective solar film. The conservation ... -
Current Advancement of Heliostats
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper looks at the advancements made in Solar Power Towers and Heliostat Fields since 2017 and summarizes the current problems in various subsections. Heliostat fields capturing concentrated solar power (CSP) have ... -
A Semi-Analytical Approach for Calculating Productivity Index in Vertical Flowing Well: High Gas-Oil Ratio Field Data as a Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The concurrent transport of hydrocarbon, water, and most times solids ensues all through the production system concerned in transporting multiphase fluid from the producing reservoir zone to the wellbore and then to surface. ...