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Pore structural evolution of shale following thermochemical treatment (2019)
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Rigby, S. P., Jahan, H., Stevens, L., Uguna, C., Snape, C., Macnaughton, B., …Fletcher, R. S. (2020). Pore structural evolution of shale following thermochemical treatment. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 112, Article 104058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104058

Shales experience heat treatment concurrent with the presence of water or steam during reservoir engineering interventions, such as high pressure water fracking and in-situ combustion of hydrocarbons. This work utilises a novel technique, which is a... Read More about Pore structural evolution of shale following thermochemical treatment.

Shale gas reserve evaluation by laboratory pyrolysis and gas holding capacity consistent with field data (2019)
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Whitelaw, P., Uguna, C. N., Stevens, L. A., Meredith, W., Snape, C. E., Vane, C. H., …Carr, A. D. (2019). Shale gas reserve evaluation by laboratory pyrolysis and gas holding capacity consistent with field data. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 3659. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11653-4

Exploration for shale gas occurs in onshore basins, with two approaches used to predict the maximum gas in place (GIP) in the absence of production data. The first estimates adsorbed plus free gas held within pore space, and the second measures gas y... Read More about Shale gas reserve evaluation by laboratory pyrolysis and gas holding capacity consistent with field data.

Selective low temperature chemical looping combustion of higher alkanes with Cu- and Mn- oxides (2019)
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Güleç, F., Meredith, W., Sun, C., & Snape, C. E. (2019). Selective low temperature chemical looping combustion of higher alkanes with Cu- and Mn- oxides. Energy, 173, 658-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.02.099

Chemical looping combustion (CLC) of n-hexadecane and n-heptane with copper and manganese oxides (CuO and Mn2O3) has been investigated in a fixed bed reactor to reveal the extent to which low temperature CLC can potentially be applicable to hydrocarb... Read More about Selective low temperature chemical looping combustion of higher alkanes with Cu- and Mn- oxides.

A novel approach to CO2 capture in Fluid Catalytic Cracking-Chemical Looping Combustion (2019)
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Güleç, F., Meredith, W., Sun, C., & Snape, C. E. (2019). A novel approach to CO2 capture in Fluid Catalytic Cracking-Chemical Looping Combustion. Fuel, 244, 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.01.168

Oil refineries collectively account for about 4–6% of global CO2 emissions and Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units are responsible for roughly 25% of these. Although post-combustion and oxy-combustion have been suggested to capture CO2 released from... Read More about A novel approach to CO2 capture in Fluid Catalytic Cracking-Chemical Looping Combustion.

Continuous testing of silica-PEI adsorbents in a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system (2019)
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Kim, J., Woo, J., Jo, S., Lee, S., Moon, J., Kim, H., …Park, Y. C. (2019). Continuous testing of silica-PEI adsorbents in a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 82, 184-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.01.007

In this study, a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system (TBS) has been used continuously to test the performance for CO2 adsorption of silica-PEI (S.PEI) adsorbents, containing 40 wt.% of PEI, which were supplied by the University of Nottingha... Read More about Continuous testing of silica-PEI adsorbents in a lab.-scale twin bubbling fluidized-bed system.