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SUEKANE TETSUYA
 
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  • Energy Engineering / Earth resource engineering, Energy sciences

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  • Enhanced remediation of residual DNAPL by ethanol cosolvent flushing: Mass transfer behavior and empirical correlation Reviewed

    Yingxue Hu, Keyan Wang, Chunwei Zhang, Tetsuya Suekane, Junwei Su, Zhaolin Gu

    Journal of Hazardous Materials   2026.5

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  • Pore-scale investigations of particle migration by fluid–particle interactions in immiscible two-phase flow systems: A three-dimensional X-ray microtomography study Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Sotheavuth Sin, Muhammad Nasir, Kailin Wang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Wilson Susanto, Bowen Wang, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Advances in Water Resources   Vol. 202   2025.8

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2025.104998

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  • Investigating the effects of flow rate on pore-scale mass transfer and salt spatial distribution in the drying process of porous media using X-ray microtomography Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Wilson Susanto, Muhammad Nasir, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Sotheavuth Sin, Kailin Wang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer   Vol. 166 ( No. 109113 )   2025.5

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  • Pore-scale relative permeability and saturation analysis under wide-ranging injection velocity and wettability during primary CO2 injection for geological carbon sequestration Reviewed International journal

    Muhammad Nasir, Shintaro Matsushita, Masayuki Osada, Shu Yamashita, Wang Kailin, Wilson Susanto, Sotheavuth Sin, Tetsuya Suekane

    Advances in Water Resources   Vol. 199   2025.3

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2025.104938

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  • Characteristics of pore-scale events and their impact on transport in porous media Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Kailin Wang, Shintaro Matsushita, Muhammad Nasir, Sotheavuth Sin, Susanto Wilson, Bowen Wang, Tetsuya Suekane

    Physics of fluid   2025.3

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  • The Characteristics of Two-phase Flow in Porous Media over Wide Range of Capillary, Viscous, and Inertial Force Reviewed International journal

    Kailin Wang, Shintaro Matsushita, Sotheavuth Sin, Wilson Susanto, Bowen Wang, Tetsuya Suekane

    Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation   Volume 8 ( Issue 4 )   2025.1

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    The characteristic of two-phase immiscible flow in porous media is controlled by different kinds of force, such as interface surface tension (capillary force) and fluid viscosity (viscous force). Based on those two forces, three typical displacement patterns in porous media are divided, named as capillary fingering, viscous fingering and stable displacement. However, the impact of inertial force in displacement pattern, which generate due to the flow direction or velocity change of fluid, is always neglected. This research used direct numerical simulation (DNS) to study the two-phase immiscible pattern with a wide range of capillary number (Ca) and ratio of Reynolds number (Re). The Ca is a dimensionless value which represents the ratio of viscous force and capillary force. While Re represents the ratio of inertial force and viscous force. The impact of forces on displacement patterns were determined based on the quantitative analyses of the saturation distribution as functions of Ca and Re. The result shows that inertial effects have minimal influence on flow conditions at low capillary numbers. However, at high capillary numbers, capillary forces become less significant, and inertial effects strongly influence flow conditions. These findings contribute the different insight of fluid displacement patterns, controlled by balance of inertial, capillary and viscous forces, has a noticeable influence on recovery or storage efficiency in subsurface process.

    DOI: 10.26855/jamc.2024.12.006

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  • Pore-scale investigation of solute dispersion behavior in porous media under a two-phase co-flow condition Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Chunwei Zhang, Jiale Mo, Zijing Li, Tetsuya Suekane, Yuncong Wang, Ming Li

    Advance in Water Resources   Vol. 186   2024.12

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2024.104664

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  • Impact of oil viscosity on the dispersion in an aqueous phase of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media – An X-ray tomography Study Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Zijing Li, Muhammad Nasir, Weicen Wang, Kazuki Kaito, Chunwei Zhang, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Water Resource Researches   Vol. 59   2024.12

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    DOI: 10.1029/2023WR034849

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  • Influence of binder content on gas-water two-phase flow and displacement phase diagram in the gas diffusion layer of PEMFC: a pore network view Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Jiale Mo, Chunwei Zhang, Weidong Zheng, Yingxue Hu, Zijing Li, Tetsuya Suekane

    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer   Vol. 231   2024.12

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2024.125838

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  • Conservative transport model for surfactant on the interface based on the phase-field method Reviewed International journal

    Shu Yamashita, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Journal of Computational Physics   Volume 516   2024.7

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113292

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  • Energy transfer process during Haines jumps and meniscus reconfiguration with a high-density and viscosity ratio Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Kailin Wang, Shintaro Matsushita, Shu Yamashita, Muhammad Nasir, Tetsuya Suekane

    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer   vol. 230   2024.6

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    Haines jumps and meniscus reconfiguration are commonly observed in immiscible two-phase flows through porous media. The experiment found that the fluid-fluid interface moves rapidly during these two phenomena. This leads to hydraulic change and entropy production events, which have important implications for relative permeability of two-phase flow in porous media. However, owing to the energy-transfer process remains to be elucidated, their impact on transport of heat and mass in porous media has not yet been well predicted. By analyzing the exchange process between surface energy, kinetic energy, and viscous dissipation, this study provides a better understanding of meniscus dynamics and whether these effects are significant on a larger scale. In this study, Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) combined with level-set method was used to simulate the process of Haines jumps and meniscus reconfiguration. A governing equation combined with density-scale continuum surface force (CSF) model was derived for energy conservation, and simulations were performed considering high-density and high-viscosity ratios. The rate of surface-energy change was evaluated using CSF model. A capillary tube was designed to verify the rate of surface-energy change in simulation. Comparison of simulation and theoretical data indicates that the density-scale CSF model can satisfactorily evaluate the rate of change in surface energy. Besides, to compare energy transfer process in Haines jumps and meniscus reconfiguration, two simulation cases were designed: (I) Haines jump and meniscus reconfiguration occur individually, and (II) Haines jump and meniscus reconfiguration occur simultaneously. We investigated the energy exchange process and compared the effects of the inertial force and viscous dissipation between cases I and II. Based on the simulation results, the interface releases surface free energy to the system during the Haines jumps and meniscus reconfiguration. In the case of only Haines jumps, a portion of the released surface energy is absorbed by another fluid-fluid interface, thus reducing the surface-energy release rate in the system. This energy can be dissipated promptly, resulting in a rapid viscous-dissipation growth; but the kinetic-energy change is negligible. However, when meniscus reconfiguration occurs, released surface energy is difficult to reabsorb and cannot dissipate quickly. Thus, a significant amount of released energy is converted into kinetic energy, which is subsequently damped by the fluid. This significant kinetic-energy oscillation generates a large inertial force and spreads over a wider sphere of influence in the porous media. Energy transfer process shows a more detailed fundamental understanding of mass transfer in porous media, such as flow perturbations, entropy production and permeability in porous media, and it helps a rigorous process for upscaling models used for thermodynamic, heat and mass transfer in porous media.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2024.125749

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  • Three-dimensional visualization of Rayleigh–Bénard convection in porous media Reviewed International coauthorship International journal

    Sotheavuth Sin, Shun Imai, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Muhammad Nasir, Wilson Susanto, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Advances in Water Resources   vol. 186   2024.2

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    Investigating Rayleigh–Bénard convection, its onset, and its effect on mass transfer are crucial for understanding the effective dissolution processes between carbon-dioxide (CO2)-saturated and CO2-free brines in CO2 geological storage. However, most previous investigations on the onset of convection and mass transfer properties were conducted by 2D and 3D numerical simulations. Only a few 3D experimental studies of Rayleigh–Bénard convection were reported. In this study, we proposed a non-destructive experimental approach to visualize the three-dimensional (3D) fingering structure of Rayleigh–Bénard convection using a micro-focused X-ray computed tomography (X-ray CT) scanner. The experimental conditions covered the Rayleigh number (Ra) range between 3400 and 23000, which also includes the Ra value of the actual condition of gas reservoir field. Results show that fingers and coalescence dynamics significantly developed upon increasing Ra. At higher Ra, the finger concentration experienced greater dilution due to the combined effects of unsteady finger motion and enhanced dispersion strength. The maximum finger extension velocity is linearly proportional to Ra. The convective mass flux (Sh) correlated with Ra by a power-law relationship. The findings in this study provide a better understanding of the influence of Ra on mass transport properties and can be used as a reference for developing the convective mass transfer model of Rayleigh–Bénard convection in 3D porous media.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2024.104666

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  • Effect of foam on miscible displacement in the Hele-Shaw cell with a chemical reaction approach

    Wang Weicen, Li Zijing, She Yun, Hu Yingxue, Matsushita Shintaro, Suekane Tetsuya

    Physics of Fluids   Vol. 35 ( No. 5 )   2023.5

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  • Development of CO2 Absorption Using Blended Alkanolamine Absorbents for Multicycle Integrated Absorption–Mineralization

    Thamsiriprideeporn, C., Suekane, T.

    Minerals   Vol. 14 ( No. 4 )   2023.3

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  • 弱圧縮性手法を用いた多孔質体内混相流の大規模計算

    長田雅之, 松下真太郎, 末包哲也

    混相流   Vol. 37 ( No. 1 )   2023.3

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  • issolution mass transfer of trapped gas in porous media: a correlation of Sherwood, Reynolds, and Schmidt numbers

    Anindityo Patmonoaji, Muhammad Amin Tahta, Jannati Adnin Tuasikal, Yingxue Hu, Tetsuya Suekane

    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer   Vol. 205   2023.1

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  • Pore-scale investigation of wettability effects on drying process of three-dimensional porous medium

    Muhammad Nasir, Zijing Li, Mohammad Azis, weicen wang, yun she, kailin wang, anindityo, Shintaro matsushita, suekane

    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer   Volume 140   2022.11

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    Drying process of porous medium is of interest in engineering applications. However, pore-scale studies of wettability effects on the drying process of three-dimensional (3D) porous media remain limited. X-ray microtomography was used to investigate the wettability effects on the drying process of 3D porous medium from a pore-scale perspective. Results show higher wettability increases capillary pressure, which enhances the rearrangement of liquid from large pores to small pores. We also found that liquid clusters are unlikely to disappear for a long time confirming that higher wettability supports the flow through liquid film. This study also provides new insight that capillary flow by liquid film is associated with branch clusters. These clusters maintain the gas–liquid interfacial area that acts as the evaporation surface. As a result, drying is intensive in a water-wet porous medium with a longer constant rate period in which drying is controlled by external diffusion. In a neutral-wet porous medium, an early drop in drying rate occurs. Thus, drying is mainly a falling rate period limited by vapor diffusion through the newly emerging dried region within the medium.

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  • Effects of alkanolamine absorbents in integrated absorption–mineralization

    Chanakarn Thamsiriprideeporn, T. Suekane

    Minerals   Vol. 12 ( Issue 11 )   2022.10

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  • Experimental characterization of shear enhanced dispersion in porous media

    Zijing Li, Chunwei Zhang, Kazuki Kaito, Yingxue Hu, Tetsuya Suekane

    Advances in Water Resource   Vol. 170   2022.10

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  • Three-dimensional pore-scale observation of drying process of porous media

    Muhammad Nasir, Kazuki Kaito, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Yun She, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer   Volume 196   2022.7

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    X-ray micro-tomography was used to comprehensively study the pore-scale drying process and characterize the liquid film region and the invasion front. Our finding reveals that the decrease in saturation is not uniform across the pore size. The capillary rearrangement, which refers to the restructuring of the liquid phase due to the capillary pressure difference, drives the liquid to flow from large pores to small pores. As a result, the decrease in liquid saturation occurs preferentially within the larger pores. A sharp decrease in liquid saturation occurred at the invasion front, where saturation ranged from 1 to around 0.15. The obtained invasion width that characterized the extent of roughness and disorder of the invasion front obeyed the scaling law of the percolation model. Therefore, this region is significantly limited by the interaction between capillary and gravity. However, with more multi-pore connected clusters observed within the porous medium, the critical exponent of the cumulative cluster size distribution obtained from the cluster region deviates from the universal power-law behavior. This result indicates the presence of liquid film within the cluster region, where the viscous force becomes comparable to the capillary force. We also found that the total gas-liquid-specific interfacial area has no effect on the drying rate. This result provides new evidence that the liquid film region is vapor saturated.

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  • Effect of In-situ Dual Surfactant Formulation on Spontaneous Oil Deformation: A Comprehensive Study from Mechanism Discovery to Oil Recovery Application

    Yun She, Hirotaka Aoki, Yingxue Hu, Chunwei Zhang, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Muhammad Nasir, Weicen Wang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research   2022.7

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    An in-situ dual-surfactant formulation is developed by using a novel cationic surfactant adsorbing the in-situ acid components in crude oil. As a result, various oil deformation patterns are first revealed and applied to control the viscous instabilities for oil recovery application. To this end, four dynamic oil displacement tests are conducted via camera snapshotting or X-ray microtomography in two and three dimensions, without and with porous media, in single to multipore-throat structures as well as through pore-scale and macroscale visualizations. As suggested in the results, displacing the oil phase using a 20 mmol/L cationic surfactant is the most effective method to suppress interfacial instability. The preferential flow path is frequently diverted by the repeated change of oil shape at a low flow rate. By contrast, emulsification plays a key role when the flow rate is high. It depends on which is dominant between the oil deformation and shearing velocity. From a deep insight into the pore spaces, oil deformation patterns are classified into oil spreading, shrinking, splitting, film detachment, and bridge breakup. The most significant oil deformation in the tortuous pore spaces occurs after 10 min of aging. Based on this time, we propose a new injection–alternate–stop scenario to suppress the viscous fingering and maximize the oil recovery efficiency to 80% in a large-scale reservoir.

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  • Pore-scale investigation on microemulsion-based quasi-miscible flooding for EOR in water-wet/oil-wet reservoirs: A 3D study by X-ray microtomography

    Yun She, Weicen Wang, Yingxue Hu, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Muhammad Nasir, Chunwei Zhang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering   2022.7

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    Microemulsion flooding has recently gained attention as an effective chemical-based method for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The high performance of this technique is attributed to the classical mechanism: plugging effect and divergence of preferential flow path. In this study, miscible behavior was identified as a novel mechanism by which oil recovery was controlled by dissolution process instead of capillary forces. To this end, a new type of solvent-based microemulsion phase was prepared by mixing solvent, water, and surfactant as a flooding fluid. A series of experiments with direct water flooding, microemulsion flooding, and water-alternate-emulsion flooding for EOR were carried out for strong water-wet and oil-wet artificial rock sample. X-ray microtomography was used to visualize the oil configurations in three-dimensional pore spaces. An advanced workflow image processing method was developed for the first time to capture the miscible behavior in a pore-scale view. As suggested in the results, microemulsion flooding has a miscible displacement front where the oil phase is gradually solubilized. Therefore, capillary forces can be eliminated because the emulsion-oil interface is invisible but has a compositional gradient, leading to higher oil recovery. Compared with the immiscible waterflooding process, the capillary forces remained dominant, which hinders additional oil recovery. Based on EOR scenarios, we found that emulsion flooding could effectively solubilize larger well-connected oil clusters instead of small separate ganglia or singlets. Therefore, considering the miscible behavior, emulsion flooding can be applied to secondary oil recovery regardless of the reservoirs’ wettability, or to tertiary oil recovery in weakly/strongly oil-wet reservoirs with a well-connected oil phase after waterflooding.

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  • Competition of gravity and viscous forces in miscible vertical displacement in a three-dimensional porous medium

    Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Yun She, Tomotaka Koe, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Muhammad Nasir, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Physics of Fluids   Vol. 34   2022.6

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    When viscosity and density contrast exist in the vertical miscible displacement in porous media between two fluids, the interplay between the viscous force and gravity determines the interface stability. Two stability criteria are derived to determine the interface stability. Hill's and Dumore's stability criteria are used to determine the interface stability of the sharp and diffused interface, respectively. In this study, we visualized the crossover between unstable displacement and stable displacement for a vertical displacement in porous media using microfocused x-ray computed tomography. The experiments were divided into four possible configurations: (1) unconditionally stable (gravitationally stable-viscously stable), (2) unconditionally unstable (gravitationally unstable-viscously unstable), (3) conditionally stable (gravitationally stable-viscously unstable), and (4) conditionally stable (gravitationally unstable, viscously stable). The structure of the displacement interface was visualized for the critical velocity ratio (V/Vc) in the range of 0.5–11.9. In the conditionally stable configurations 3 and 4, a crossover between stable and unstable displacements was observed. We found that Dumore's stability criterion is more appropriate for predicting interface stability than Hill's stability criterion. Viscous fingering occurs in configuration 3 when V/Vc is higher than Dumore's critical velocity, whereas gravity fingering occurs in configuration 4 when V/Vc is lower than Dumore's critical velocity. Similar events in two-dimensional experiments, such as tip-splitting, shielding, and coalescence, were also observed three-dimensionally. The significant changes in the mixing length and sweep efficiency signify the crossover between the stable and unstable displacements.

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  • Spontaneous Deformation of Oil Clusters Induced by Dual Surfactants for Oil Recovery: Dynamic Study from Hele-Shaw Cell to Wettability-Altered Micromodel

    Yun She, Hirotaka Aoki, Weicen Wang, Zijing Li, Muhammad Nasir, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Energy & Fuels   Vol. 36 ( Issue 11 )   2022.5

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    Crude oil often contains long-chain fatty acid components. The fatty acid usually exists as a dissociative anionic surfactant in the oil phase. This study introduced a novel cationic surfactant to absorb the in situ anionic surfactant. Thus, a dual surfactant system was formed, and surfactant aggregates were produced near the water–oil interface. Due to the viscoelastic and fragile aggregates, spontaneous oil deformation and splitting were discovered as a novel mechanism for chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR). First, we used a water phase doped with stearyltrimethylammonium chloride to displace the heavy oil with palmitic acid in the Hele-Shaw cell. The fingering patterns were observed in the water flooding (WF) and chemical flooding (CF) systems under different flow rates. After that, the experiments were transferred to the wettability-altered micromodel to simulate real oil recovery applications. The Hele-Shaw cell experiments show that viscous fingering was intensive at a low flow rate whereas it was significantly suppressed at a high flow rate in the CF system. The micromodel experiments show that oil recovery is higher in the CF system than in the WF system. The spontaneous cocurrent and counter-current oil blebbing was observed in the dynamic CF process. As the blebbing developed to a certain degree, the oil phase split into tiny droplets that could easily pass through the pore spaces. Additionally, the wettability was also altered from oil-wet to water-wet. As a result, oil recovery was improved significantly. The residual oil was classified into cluster, ganglia, and singlet based on the circularity and Euler number. We found the large clusters dominated in the WF system, whereas the small size of ganglia and singlets were the main forms in the CF system. The new chemical used can be applied for large-scale industrial EOR fields due to its good performance and low cost.

    DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c00772

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  • Hydrodynamic Fingering Induced by Gel Film Formation in Miscible Fluid Systems: An Experimental and Mathematical Study

    Muhammad Nasir, Ryuhei Yamaguchi, Yun She, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Weicen Wang, Zijing Li, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Applied Sciences   Vol. 12 ( Issue 10 )   2022.5

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    Hydrodynamic fingering induced by gel formation shares common features with growing biofilms, bacterial colonies, and the instability of a confined chemical garden. Fluid displacement with gel formation is also essential in various engineering applications, including CO2 leakage remediation from storage reservoirs and enhanced oil recovery. We conducted Hele-Shaw cell displacement experiments for a miscible fluid system using skim milk and aqueous citric acid solution. This study aimed to investigate the effects of gel film formation on the fingering instability of a miscible fluid system and develop a mathematical model of the sequential growth of gel film formation at the fingertip. We found that the gel film formation thickens with time, resulting in instability at the interface. A distinctive fingering pattern, resembling tentacles, appears where miscibility is suppressed, and the growth of the finger is localized at the fingertip. The finger width remains constant with increasing flow rate, whereas the number of fingers increases linearly before the fingers merge. The gap width significantly limits the finger width. Finally, a mathematical model of sequential film thickness growth for a bubble-like fingertip structure was developed. This model is based upon the interplay between the diffusion of citric acid through the existing gel film formation and elongation of the fingertip. The model provides an understanding of the fundamental mechanism of the growth of the bubble-like fingertip.

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  • Stereolithography 3D Printer for Micromodel Fabrications with Comprehensive Accuracy Evaluation by Using Microtomography

    Anindityo Patmonoaji, Mohammmad Azis Mahardika, Muhammad Nasir, Yun She, Weicen Wang, Muhammad Akhsin Muflikhun, Tetsuya Suekane

    Geosciences   Vol. 12 ( Issue 5 )   2022.4

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    Micromodels are important for studying various pore-scale phenomena in hydrogeology. However, the fabrication of a custom micromodel involves complicated steps with cost-prohibitive equipment. The direct fabrication of micromodels with a 3D printer can accelerate the fabrication steps and reduce the cost. A stereolithography (SLA) 3D printer is one of the best options because it has sufficient printing performance for micromodel fabrication and is relatively inexpensive. However, it is not without drawbacks. In this report, we explored the capability of an SLA 3D printer for micromodel fabrication. Various parameters affecting the printing results, such as the effects of geometries, dimensions, printing axis configurations, printing thickness resolutions, and pattern thicknesses were investigated using microtomography for the first time. Eventually, the most optimal printing configuration was then also discussed. In the end, a complete micromodel was printed, assembled, and used for fluid displacement experiments. As a demonstration, viscous and capillary fingerings were successfully performed using this micromodel design.

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  • 二酸化炭素地下貯留技術の現状と展望

    末包 哲也

    スマートプロセス学会誌   Vol. 11 ( No. 1 )   2022.1

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  • Viscous fingering with gas generation with chemical reaction in a Hele-Shaw cell

    Weicen Wang, Chunwei Zhang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Yingxue Hu, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane, Yuichiro Nagatsu

    Physics of Fluids   Vol. 33   2021.9

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  • Effects of Dissolution Fingering on Mass Transfer Rate in Three-Dimensional Porous Media

    Anindityo Patmonoaji, Yingxue Hu, Muhammad Nasir, Chunwei Zhang, Tetsuya Suekane

    Water Resources Research   Vol. 57 ( No. 10 )   2021.9

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  • Development of mineral carbonation with industrial wastewater under standard conditions

    Chanakarn Thamsiriprideeporn, etsuya suekane

    Greenhouse gas: Science and Technology   Vol. 12 ( Issue 1 )   2021.9

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  • Enhanced heavy oil recovery by calcium hydroxide flooding with the production of viscoelastic materials: Study with three-dimensional tomography and glass micromodels

    Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Yun She, Fujiura Shori, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane, Yuichiro Nagatsu

    Energy & Fuels   Vol. 35   2021.7

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  • A unique dissolution behavior of trapped CO2 into flowing water inside a porous medium compared with other gases

    Anindityo Patmonoaji, Muhammad Nasir, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, She Yun, Muhammad Tahta Amin, Tetsuya Suekane

    J. MMIJ   Vol. 137 ( No. 9 )   2021.7

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  • Experimental investigation of solute transport in variably saturated porous media using X-ray Computed Tomography

    Chunwei Zhang, Yun She, Yingxue Hu, Zijing Li, Weicen Wang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Tetsuya Suekane

    Physics of Fluids   vol. 30   2021.7

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  • Pore-scale investigation of wettability impact on residual nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution in natural porous media

    Yingxue Hu, Yun She, Chunwei Zhang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Vol. 787   2021.4

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  • Pore-scale study of in-situ surfactant flooding with strong oil emulsification in sandstone based on X-ray microtomography

    Yun She, Yingxue Hu, Chunwei Zhang, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry   Vol. 98   2021.3

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  • Pore scale simulations of Haines jump and capillary filling in randomly distributed pore structures with implications for CO2 geological storage

    Chunwei Zhang, Ken Kou, Yingxue Hu, Seiichi En, etsuya suekane, Feng Xiao

    J MMIJ   Vol. 35 ( No. 5 )   2021.2

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  • Interpreting dynamics of snap-off in a constricted capillary from the energy dissipation principle

    Chunwei Zhang, Seiichi En, Shintaro Matsushita, Feng Xiao, Tetsuya Suekane

    Phys. Fluids   Vol. 33   2021.2

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  • Three-dimensional visualization of alkaline flooding process with in-situ emulsification for oil recovery in porous media

    Yun She, Mohammad Azis Mahardika, Yingxue Hu, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane, Yuichiro Nagatsu

    J Petroleum Science and Engineering   Vol. 202   2021.2

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  • Influence of stagnant zones on solute transport in heterogeneous porous media at pore scale

    Chunwei Zhang, Kazuki Kaito, Yingxue Hu, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Physics of Fluids   Vol. 33   2021.1

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  • Dissolution mass transfer of trapped phase in porous media

    Anindityo Patmonoaji, Yingxue Hu, Chunwei Zhang, Tetsuya Suekane

    Vol.   2021.1

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  • Pore-scale investigation on nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution and mass transfer in 2D and 3D porous media

    Yingxue Hu, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Haiping Xu, Kazuki Kaito, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane

    Intern. J. Heat Mass Trans   Vol. 169   2020.12

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  • Effect of capillary number on morphological characterizations of trapped gas bubbles: Study by using micro-tomography

    Yingxue Hu, Yun She, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Chunwei Zhang, Tetsuya Suekane

    Intern. J. Heat Mass Trans   Vol. 163   2020.9

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  • Effects of porous electrode pore size and operating flow rate on the energy production of capacitive energy extraction

    Nasir, M., Nakanishi, Y., Patmonoaji, A., Suekane, T.

    Renewable Energy   155   2020.8

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  • Experimental study on the displacement patterns and the phase diagram of immiscible fluid displacement in three-dimensional porous media

    Hu, Y., Patmonoaji, A., Zhang, C., Suekane, T.

    Advances in Water Resources   140   2020.6

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  • Pore–throat characterization of unconsolidated porous media using watershed-segmentation algorithm

    Anindityo Patmonoaji, Kento Tsuji, Tetsuya Suekane

    Powder Technology   Vol. 362   635 - 644   2020.2

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2019.12.026

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  • Three-dimensional fingering structures in immiscible flow at the crossover from viscous to capillary fingering

    Patmonoaji, A., Muharrik, M., Hu, Y., Zhang, C., Suekane, T.

    International Journal of Multiphase Flow   122   2020.1

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  • Experimental and numerical simulation of supercritical CO<inf>2</inf> microbubble injection into a brine-saturated porous medium

    Patmonoaji, A., Zhang, Y., Xue, Z., Park, H., Suekane, T.

    International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control   91   2019.12

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.102830

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  • Dispersion in porous media through the lattice Boltzmann method simulation and X-ray tomography experiments

    Chunwei Zhang, T. Suekane, Kosuke Minokawa, Yingxue Hu, Anindityo Patmonoaji

    Physical Review E   Vol. 100   2019.12

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  • Three-Dimensional Interaction of Viscous Fingering and Gravitational Segregation in Porous Media

    Tetsuya Suekane, Tomotaka Koe, Pablo Marin Barbancho

    Fluids   Vol. 4 ( No. 3 )   2019.7

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  • Three-dimensional visualization of viscous fingering for non-Newtonian fluids with chemical reactions that change viscosity

    Sin, S., Suekane, T., Nagatsu, Y., Patmonoaji, A.

    Physical Review Fluids   4 ( 5 )   2019.4

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    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.054502

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  • Solute transport in porous media studied by lattice Boltzmann simulations at pore scale and x-ray tomography experiments

    Zhang, C., Suekane, T., Minokawa, K., Hu, Y., Patmonoaji, A.

    Physical Review E   100 ( 6 )   2019

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  • Dynamic evolution of CO2-brine interfacial area during brine imbibition in porous media

    Jiang, L., Wu, B., Liu, Y., Suekane, T., Wang, D.

    Intern. J. Heat Mas Trans.   Vol. 128   2018.9

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  • Micro-tomographic analyses of specific interfacial area inside unconsolidated porous media with differing particle characteristics from microscopic to macroscopic scale

    Anindityo Patmonoaji, Kento Tsuji, Mushlih Muharrik, Tetsuya Suekane

    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science   Vol. 532   614 - 621   2018.8

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.08.023

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  • Effect of diffusing layer thickness on the density-driven natural convection of miscible fluids in porous media: Modeling of mass transport

    Wang, L., Nakanishi, Y., Teston, A. D., Suekane

    Journal of Fluid Science and Technology   Vol. 13 ( No. 1 )   2018.1

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    DOI: 10.1299/jfst.2018jfst0002

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  • Effect of buoyancy on fingering growth activity in immiscible two-phase flow displacements

    Muharrik, M., Suekane, T., Patmonoaji, A.

    Journal of Fluid Science and Technology   Vol. 13 ( No. 1 )   2018.1

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  • Gravitational Fingering Due to Density Increase by Mixing at a Vertical Displacing Front in Porous Media

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Energy and Fuels   2018

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    DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b02819

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  • Three-dimensional viscous fingering in miscible displacement in porous media

    Suekane, T., Ono, J., Hyodo, A., Nagatsu, Y.

    Physical Review Fluids   Vol. 2   2017.12

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  • Three-dimensional viscous fingering of miscible fluids in porous media

    Suekane, T., Ono, J., Hyodo, A., Nagatsu, Y.

    Physical Review Fluids   Vol. 2   2017.12

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    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.103902

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  • Investigation of CO<inf>2</inf> dissolution via mass transfer inside a porous medium

    Patmonoaji, A., Suekane, T.

    Advances in Water Resources   110   2017.12

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.008

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  • Three-dimensional fingering structure associated with gravitationally unstable mixing of miscible fluids in porous media

    Sakai, S., Nakanishi, Y., Hyodo, A., Wang, L., Suekane, T.

    Heat Transfer Research   Vol. 48 ( No. 8 )   2017.4

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  • 多孔質の層状不均質性が密度差自然対流に与える影響

    中西 佑児, 兵藤 陽光, Wang Lei, 末包 哲也

    Vol. 83 ( No. 847 )   2017.3

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  • Behavior of CO<inf>2</inf>/water flow in porous media for CO<inf>2</inf> geological storage

    Jiang, L., Yu, M., Liu, Y., Yang, M., Zhang, Y., Xue, Z., Suekane, T., Song, Y.

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging   37   2017

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2016.11.002

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  • Experimental study of 3D Rayleigh–Taylor convection between miscible fluids in a porous medium

    Yuji Nakanishi, Akimitsu Hyodo, Lei Wang, Tetsuya Suekane

    Advances in Water Resources   97   224 - 232   2016.11

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.09.015

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  • Three-dimensional visualization of natural convection in porous media

    Wang L., Hyodo A., Sakai S., Suekane T.

    Energy Procedia   Vol. 86   2016.4

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.01.047

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  • Three-dimensional structure of natural convection in a porous medium: Effect of dispersion on finger structure

    Tetsuya Suekane

    International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control   2016

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.08.018

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  • CO<inf>2</inf>/water two-phase flow in a two-dimensional micromodel of heterogeneous pores and throats

    Tetsuya Suekane

    RSC Advances   2016

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    DOI: 10.1039/c6ra10229h

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  • Characterization of dissolution process during brine injection in Berea sandstones: an experiment study

    Tetsuya Suekane

    RSC Advances   2016

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    DOI: 10.1039/c6ra19024c

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  • Non-wetting phase saturation after drainage from the wetting-phase-filled porous medium

    Suekane, T., Saito, Y., Jiang, L.

    Journal of Fluid Science and Technology   vol. 10 ( no. 2 )   2015.7

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  • Application of X-ray CT investigation of CO<inf>2</inf>–brine flow in porous media

    Jiang, L., Liu, Y., Song, Y., Yang, M., Xue, Z., Zhao, Y., Zhao, J., Zhang, Y., Suekane, T., Shen, Z.

    Experiments in Fluids   56 ( 5 )   2015

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  • 多孔質内におけるCO2の毛管トラップの数値シミュレーション

    末包哲也

    Vol. 130   2014.7

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  • Effect of heterogeneity of porous media on gas permeation and entrapment

    etsuya suekane

    Journal of Flow Control, Measurement & Visualization   Vol. 2   2014.5

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  • Pore-scale investigation of the effect of connate water to water flooding behavior

    etsuya suekane

    Journal of Fluid Science and Technology,   Vol. 9 ( No. 2 )   2014.5

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  • Effect of wettability on oil trapping process in porous medium

    etsuya suekane

    Theoretical and Applied Mechanics   Vol. 62   2014.3

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  • Three-dimensional imaging of pore-scale waterflooding phenomena in water-wet and oil-wet porous medium

    etsuya suekane

    Journal of Flow Control, Measurement & Visualization   Vol. 2   2014.1

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  • 多孔質にトラップされた非湿潤層の物質輸送に関する研究

    安藤 晋之介, 末包哲也

    理論応用力学講演会 講演論文集   Vol. 63   2014

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  • Percolation of supercritical CO<inf>2</inf> in a porous medium saturated with water

    Suekane, T., Okada, K.

    Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   79 ( 808 )   2013

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  • OBSERVATION OF WATER FLOW AROUND TRAPPED OIL BLOBS

    Setiawan Arief, 末包哲也

    理論応用力学講演会 講演論文集   Vol. 62   2013

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  • Gas injection in a water saturated porous medium: Effect of capillarity, buoyancy, and viscosity ratio

    etsuya suekane, Okada, K.

    Energy Procedia   Vol. 37   2013

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  • Microtomography of Imbibition Phenomena and Trapping Mechanism

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Transport in Porous Media   2012

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    DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9899-2

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  • In-Situ Capillary Trapping of CO<inf>2</inf> by Co-Injection

    Na, Z., Suekane, T., Hosokawa, T., Inaoka, S., Wang, Q.

    Transport in Porous Media   90 ( 2 )   2011

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  • Direct observation of trapped gas bubbles by capillarity in sandy porous media

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Transport in Porous Media   2010

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  • Pore-scale visualization of gas trapping in porous media by X-ray CT scanning

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Flow Measurement and Instrumentation   2010

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  • Application of MRI in the measurement of two-phase flow of supercritical CO2 and water in porous rocks

    Suekane T., Furukawa N., Tsushima S., Hirai S., Kiyota M.

    Journal of Porous Media   Vol. 12 ( No. 2 )   2009

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  • Visualization of micro-scale gas bubbles trapped in sandstones

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   2008

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  • Steam absorption into films of aqueous solution of lithium bromide and lithium iodide mixture falling over a column of horizontal pipes

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Heat Transfer - Asian Research   2008

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    DOI: 10.1002/htj.20213

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  • Geological storage of carbon dioxide by residual gas and solubility trapping

    Tetsuya Suekane

    International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control   2008

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    DOI: 10.1016/S1750-5836(07)00096-5

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  • Steam absorption into films of aquous solution of LiBr and LiI mixture falling over a column of horizontal pipes

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   2007

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  • CO2の地中と海洋への隔離

    平井秀一郎, 津島将司, 末包哲也

    伝熱   2007

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  • Migration of CO2 in Porous Media Filled with Water

    T. Suekane, T. Ishii, S. Tsushima, S. Hirai

    J. Thermal Sci. Tech.   Vol. 1 ( No. 1 )   2006

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  • CO2貯留技術の動向 (1)地中(帯水層)貯留技術

    末包哲也

    エネルギー・資源   2005

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  • Numerical Analysis of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media by LBM

    T. Suekane, Y. Tsukamoto, S. Hirai

    Theoretical and Applied Mechanics   Vol. 54 ( No. )   2005

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  • Behavior of supercritical CO<inf>2</inf> injected into porous media containing water

    Suekane, T., Soukawa, S., Iwatani, S., Tsushima, S., Hirai, S.

    Energy   30 ( 11-12 SPEC. ISS. )   2005

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  • Characteristics of an immiscible flow of supercritical CO<inf>2</inf> and water in porous media under sequestration conditions

    Suekane, T., Ishii, T., Tsushima, S., Hirai, S.

    Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies   2005

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    DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044704-9/50132-4

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  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of in-situ Saturation in Porous Media for CO2 Geologic Sequestration

    T. Suekane, T. Ishii, S. Tsushima, S. Hirai

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging   Vol. 23 ( No. )   2005

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  • Anisotropy of MHD homogeneous turbulence (3rd report, magnetic flux density fluctuation due to coherent fine scale eddies)

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   2003

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    DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.69.286

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  • 工学応用のための磁気共鳴イメージング(MRI)-固体高分子形燃料電池膜の計測を中心として-

    津島将司, 末包哲也, 平井秀一郎

    伝熱   2003

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  • Heat transfer and flow of He II in narrow channels

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Cryogenics   2003

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    DOI: 10.1016/S0011-2275(03)00050-X

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  • Velocity measurement of clay intrusion through a sudden contraction step using a tagging pulse sequence

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging   2003

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    DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(03)00095-X

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  • Magnetohydrodynamic Power Generation Experiments with Fuji-1 Blowdown Facility

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Journal of Propulsion and Power   2003

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    DOI: 10.2514/2.6180

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  • Inertial flow structures in a simple-packed bed of spheres

    Tetsuya Suekane

    AIChE Journal   2003

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    DOI: 10.1002/aic.690490103

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  • Study on magnetic resonance imaging of gaseous medium (1st report, imaging of pressurized gas and influence of molecular diffusion on imaging)

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   2002

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    DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.68.556

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  • Numerical simulation on the removal of contaminants in conductive fluid by electromagnetophoresis

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   2002

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    DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.68.1052

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  • Experimental observations of effects of convection on flame shape and extinction on n-Heptane single droplets

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Combustion and Flame   2001

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    DOI: 10.1016/S0010-2180(01)00255-3

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  • Feasibility improvement in performance of a disk CCMHD generator by means of an electromagnetic diffuser

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Electrical Engineering in Japan (English translation of Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi)   2000

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    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6416(20001130)133:3<26::AID-EEJ4>3.0.CO;2-L

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  • Effects of diffuser shape and back pressure on the performance of disk MHD generators

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Electrical Engineering in Japan (English translation of Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi)   2000

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    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6416(20001115)133:2<11::AID-EEJ2>3.0.CO;2-8

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  • High enthalpy extraction experiments with Fuji-1 MHD blow-down facility

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Energy Conversion and Management   1999

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    DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(99)00006-0

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  • Nonequilibrium Plasma MHD Power Generation with Fuji-1 Blow-down Facility

    T.Okamura, K.Yoshikawa, T.Suekane, K.Tsuji, T.Maeda, T.Murakami, S.Kabashima, H.Yamasaki, S.Shioda, Y.Hasegawa

    Vol.   1999

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  • Behavior of supersonic radial flow in a disk MHD Generator (2nd Report, Measurements under power generation operation)

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   1998

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    DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.64.787

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  • Electron temperature measurement and performance of a nonequilibrium disk MHD generator

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Electrical Engineering in Japan (English translation of Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi)   1997

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    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6416(19970715)120:1<16::AID-EEJ3>3.0.CO;2-S

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  • Behavior of fully ionized seed plasma excited by microwave

    Tetsuya Suekane

    IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science   1997

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  • 非平衡ディスク形MHD発電機内の電子温度計測と発電性能

    村上朝之, 末包哲也, 辻 潔, 奥野喜裕, 長谷川裕夫, 椛島成治

    電気学会論文誌B部門   Vol. 116 ( No. 8 )   1996.8

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  • Numerical studies on the nonequilibrium inductively coupled plasma with metal vapor lonization

    Tetsuya Suekane

    IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science   1996

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    DOI: 10.1109/27.533124

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  • High-enthalpy extraction demonstration with closed-cycle disk MHD generators

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power   1996

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    DOI: 10.1115/1.2816533

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  • Behavior of supersonic radial flow in a disk MHD generator (1st report, measurements and three-dimensional calculations for non-power generation modes)

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B   1995

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  • The Effects of Boundary Layer Phenomena on the Performance of Disk CCMHD Generator

    Tetsuya Suekane

    IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science   1995

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    DOI: 10.1109/27.376566

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  • High-enthalpy extraction experiments with disk MHD generators

    Tetsuya Suekane

    JSME International Journal, Series B: Fluids and Thermal Engineering   1995

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  • ディスク型CCMHD発電機の発電特性:発電実験と数値シミュレーション研究

    末包哲也

    1994.3

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  • Molten coal slag removal by packed bed under high temperatures

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Series B   1993

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    DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.59.2674

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  • Experimental studies of closed cycle MHD power generation with FUJI-1 blow-down facility

    Tetsuya Suekane

    Energy Conversion and Management   1993

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    DOI: 10.1016/0196-8904(93)90074-K

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  • Technology assessment and model analysis by integrating energy science, data science and economics

    Grant number:24H00441  2024.4 - 2029.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

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  • 二酸化炭素地下貯留技術の早期実用化促進研究

    Grant number:22H03770  2022.4 - 2027.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(B)

    末包 哲也, 松下 真太郎

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  • 二酸化炭素地下貯留技術の早期実用化促進研究

    Grant number:23K25024  2022.4 - 2027.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(B)

    末包 哲也, 松下 真太郎

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    二酸化炭素地下貯留(CCS)の主要なトラップメカニズムの解明が本研究の目的である.トラップメカニズムとして,物理トラップ,界面張力トラップ,溶解トラップ,鉱物化トラップが考えられているが,現象の理解は依然として定性的であり,これらのトラップメカニズムが発現する過程およびメカニズムの移行プロセスはほとんど理解されていない.本年度は,CO2と水のような非混和性二相流に発現する様々な流動モードの遷移について,空隙スケールにおける直接数値シミュレーションを行うことにより,エネルギー散逸の観点からモード遷移の物理的なメカニズムの解明を行った.キャピラリーフィンガリング域では,注入仕事は界面張力のエネルギーに変換され,ハイネスジャンプなどの空隙スケールの過渡現象により,粘性散逸される.ヴィスカスフィンガリング域では,注入仕事は流体の運動エネルギーに変換され,粘性散逸される.これらのトレードオフにより不安定モードの遷移が起こることが明らかになった.また,CO2注入時に発生する多孔質体の乾燥とそれに伴う塩分析出の影響について実験的研究を行った.ガス流量が小さいとき,多孔質内部では比較的一様な蒸発が起こり,拡散の影響も無視できないため,塩分蓄積は発生しない.流速が大きくなると,上流部の乾燥が早くなり,塩分析出によりキャピラリーバックフローが発生して塩分が顕著に堆積する.さらに流速が大きくなると,十分にキャピラリーバックフローが発生する前に乾燥が進み,塩分蓄積が低下する.定性的な塩分蓄積の挙動が明らかになった一方で,キャピラリーバックフローの強度に与える多孔質形状の影響などを今後検討する必要がある.多孔質内自然対流の開始時間に与える界面厚さの影響について実験装置の開発を行った.予備的な検討がおおよそ終了し,次年度から本格的な実験に着手する.

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  • Development of a scienctific basis of CO2 geological storage with pore-scale measurement

    Grant number:17H00790  2017.4 - 2022.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

    Suekane Tetsuya

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    By visualizing the flow in porous media at the pore-scale, we have elucidated the trapping mechanism necessary for evaluating the safety of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), and established scientific knowledge that contributes to fostering the social acceptance of CCS. Flow patterns in porous media were summarized as flow pattern diagrams for three-dimensional porous media. The effect of the initial interface thickness on the onset time of density driven natural convection was elucidated. This model contributes to estimate the time required for transition to a dissolution trapping. A simple percolation model was developed to estimate the saturation from the porous pore structure.

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  • Oil recovery initiatives for digital rock physics and laboratory

    Grant number:26630463  2014.4 - 2017.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

    SUEKANE Tetsuya

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    Nobel techniques to visualize as well as to simulate multiphase flows at a pore scale in porous media have been developed for commercial application of digital rock physics. Oil production processes by means of various enhanced oil recovery schemes including WAG and surfactant flooding have been visualized to enhance our quantitative understandings of these recovery mechanisms. In the WAG scheme, gas injection itself does not contribute oil recovery but in following water flooding trapped gas bubbles plugging flow paths of water facilitate oil production depends on the wettability of oil to porous material. Based on the structures of porous media obtained by X-ray microtomography, numerical simulations of both single phase flow and multiphase flow were performed. We focused on the dissolution mass transfer of trapped gas bubbles to a flowing wetting phase. Structure of a porous medium impacts on the local mass transfer rate because the thickness of stagnant layers.

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  • Optimization of heated swirling flow in a disk shape porous channel for planar-type SOFC

    Grant number:26420123  2014.4 - 2017.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Tsunoda Kazumi

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    Among several types of fuel cells, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) can provide the highest electrical efficiency and have many kinds of cell geometries. In this study, we focused on a disk shape planar-type SOFC and designed a channel with circle involute shape current collectors. Swirling flow phenomena in a model disk channel with porous wall were investigated. In the case of applying circle involute shape current collectors made of porous metal, a rapid reduction of a velocity close to their surface was reduced. Furthermore, a velocity component normal to the current collector had positive value due to the gas flow permeating porous metal. These phenomena led to the discrepancy from the streamline along the involute curve. These characteristics were remarkable with increase in permeability and porosity of the current collectors. This result suggests that an optimum range of permeability and porosity of the current collector exists for favorable flow fields in the disk shape SOFC.

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  • Study on the trapping mechanisms in CO2 geo-sequestration based on pore scale imaging

    Grant number:25281036  2013.4 - 2017.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    SUEKANE TETSUYA

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    One of the major concern of carbon dioxide capture and storage is potential risk of leakage due to buoyancy. In this study, we investigated the trapping mechanisms of CO2 based on microtomography. A physical model of initial gas saturation accompanied with the competition among the interfacial tension, viscous shear force, and buoyancy was proposed, because residual gas saturation depends strongly on the initial saturation. The onset time of the natural convection, which governs the shift to dissolution trapping, is strongly impacted by dispersion, which is apparent diffusion due to complex structure of porous media. Mass transport process from the trapped phase to mobile phase was investigated with the direct numerical simulations for pore scale images.

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  • Study on heat and fluid flow control between two parallel disk plates for high performance disk shape SOFC

    Grant number:23560210  2011 - 2013

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    TSUNODA Kazumi, SUEKANE Tetsuya

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    Among several types of fuel cells, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) can provide the highest efficiency and have many kinds of cell geometries. In this study, we focused on a disk shape planar-type SOFC and proposed a technique effective for improvement of the disk shape SOFC performance through experiments by using model channels.
    A non-uniform temperature distribution inside the SOFC causes large thermal stresses, which is one of the hurdles in commercializing SOFCs. To overcome this drawback, we designed a new channel with circle involute shape current collectors having a narrow gap between adjacent them. By using this channel, we demonstrated that a swirling flow was generated in the channel and its velocity distribution along the channel width direction was almost similar shape in the whole region of the channel. We also investigated characteristics of heat transfer in the present channel and found that this channel structure was suited to SOFC from Nusselt number distributions.

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  • Micro-tomography of oil recovery dynamics at a pore scale

    Grant number:23656562  2011 - 2013

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

    SUEKANE TETSUYA

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    Crude oil production from reservoirs involves multiphase flow in porous media. Recent rapid development in micro-focused X-ray CT scanners allows us to visualize and observe the migration of the interfaces between phases at a pore scale. In this study, we visualize two-phase flows of oil and water which is governed by the capillarity and wettability at a pore scale resolution. First the snap-off process that disconnects oil blobs from the continuum to be trapped in a porous medium by capillarity and reduces oil recovery. Next the flow field around the trapped oil blobs is visualized. Water is flowing even at the pores just proximate to trapped oil blobs. However, the stagnant water films which thickness is lower than the pore scale separate oil blob and flowing water. We developed a numerical simulation code of two phase flow in porous media based on the lattice Boltzmann method. Numerical simulations were carried out for porous structures which were obtained by X-ray CT.

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  • R&D on Stable CO2 storage by means of capillary trapping

    Grant number:21310053  2009 - 2012

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    SUEKANE Tetsuya

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    Carbon dioxide (CO_2) is injected into geological formations to mitigate climate change. First, CO_2 displaces brine which fills pore space of porous rock. This process is strongly influenced by capillarity, buoyancy and viscous shear stress. Next, brine displaces CO_2 again, but some fraction of CO_2 would be trapped in porous rock because of capillarity. Then trapped CO_2 bubbles would be solved into the brine. In a reservoir scale, dissolution of CO_2 into the brine is limited by the natural convection due to the density differences between unsaturated and saturated brine with CO_2. We experimentally investigated these processes in a pore scale by means of X-ray computer tomography. To predict long-term fate of the injected CO_2, novel mathematical models were developed for each process.

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  • Study on gas flow control between two parallel disk plates for disk shape SOFC

    Grant number:20560169  2008 - 2010

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    TSUNODA Kazumi, SUEKANE Tetsuya

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    Swirling flow behavior between two parallel disk shape plates was experimentally investigated with the aid of a particle image velocimetry (PIV). The experiment was performed at low Reynolds numbers (Re<100) to simulate the practical operation in a disk shape planar-type solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). In the channel installed involute-type current collectors, a swirling flow was generated and its velocity was kept at nearly constant value toward the channel exit. This trend was observed regardless of flow rates, and hence flow uniformity was achieved over the wide range of Reynolds numbers. This improvement of flow field suggests that a control of thermal stress of the channel could be achieved by installing a circle involute flow passage.

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  • Elucidation of mass transport and material degradation mechanisms in PEFC by advanced diagnostics using magnetic resonance imaging and laser techniques

    Grant number:18206023  2006 - 2009

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

    HIRAI Shuichiro, TSUSHIMA Syoji, SUEKANE Tetsuya, UEMURA Suguru

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    In this project, elucidation of mass transport and material degradation mechanisms in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) by advanced diagnostics using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and laser techniques were performed. We developed an nuclear-labeing MRI technique to investigate water transport with and without micro porous layer in PEFCs. We also developed a visualization system of gas flow behavior in PEFC by optical absorption of Ozone. The system applied ultra violet light absorption that is characteristic of Ozone to unseeded velocity measurement and captured the shift of light absorption point. A penetration flow through porous gas diffusion layer was experimentally identified in an operating PEFC.

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  • R&D on stabilized CO2 geological storage free from leak risk

    Grant number:18510069  2006 - 2007

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    SUEKANE Tetsuya, HIRAI Shuichiro, TSUSHIMA Shoji

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    A CO_2 geological storage technology based on residual gas and solubility trapping is proposed. First, we experimentally evaluated the maximum trapped CO_2 saturation for typical conditions of aquifers at depths from 750 to 1,000m. To avoid the experimental difficulty due to the dissolution of CO_2 in water and the compressibility of CO_2, the trapped gas saturations were estimated from the relationship between pressure and volume under an isothermal expansion process. The trapped gas saturation is in the range from 24.8 to 28.2% despite the variation of CO_2 density, viscosity and interfacial tension. Therefore, at least 38.8% of CO_2 would be stored by residual gas and solubility trapping per unit volume as compared to physical trapping with cap rock. The storage potential of Japan by the proposed scheme is evaluated to be 71.6 Gt CO_2, which corresponds to the emission in Japan for 53.6 years. The storage by residual gas and solubility trapping not only augments the storage capacity but also provides the sites that are located close to the large emission sources.

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  • Optimization of the Gas Flow in the Model Channel of a Disk shape SOFC

    Grant number:17560161  2005 - 2006

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    TSUNODA Kazumi, SUEKANE Tetsuya

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    A disk shape solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a prospective planar-type fuel cell, because it provides higher power density and keeps lower ohmic loss than tubular-type SOFC. For the case of disk shape SOFC, fuel is supplied from the center hole of the disk and flows outward in the fuel channel. On the other hand, air is supplied to the upper air channel from the outer rim of the disk and reaches at the inner rim part. After that air returns its flow direction and flows outward in the lower air channel. In the present study, a radial flow between two parallel disk-shape plates, which simulates a flow in the disk shape SOFC, was experimentally investigated. In the planar-type SOFC, a reduction of thermal stress is one of the important issues. A temperature distribution in the planar-type SOFC is strongly affected by the gas flow behavior, and hence we tried to clarify flow pattern at various mass flow rate by using particle image velocimetry (PIV).
    It was found from this experiment that a uniform flow distribution in the fuel channel was attained in the case of the Reynolds number of about 7. For this operating condition, a flow field near the anode surface also shows uniform velocity distribution. This result was confirmed by the uniform distribution of pressure coefficient estimated from PIV measurements.
    On the other hand, in the upper air channel, non-uniform flow distribution was enlarged and large-scale vortex appears with increase of flow rate. In the lower air channel, local high velocity region exist at a high flow rate. For the present disk channel the optimum flow field in the air channel was obtained around the Reynolds number of 30. These results suggest the necessity of improvement of the channel shape and injection method of air.

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  • Transport phenomena of proton and water in PEFC by MRI and its application to high stability and performance

    Grant number:16360103  2004 - 2005

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    HIRAI Shuichiro, SUEKANE Tetsuya, TSUSHIMA Shoji

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    Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) are promising power sources for vehicle applications and on-site power generation. One of the most important materials under development for PEFC stacks is a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM), which conducts protons the anode to the cathode side, and it is well known that its proton conductivity depends on its water content. It implies that water in a PEM strongly relate to proton conducting mechanism. Here, we demonstrate the ^1H and ^2D atom replace in the electrolyte membrane by supplying hydrogen (H_2) or deuterium (D_2) as the fuel for the PEFC operation. By supplying deuterium as the fuel, D^+ comes into the electrolyte membrane by oxidation reaction, and replace with protons that are counter ion of sulfonic acid group and/or hydrogen atoms of water molecule. We measure the H atom distribution change after switching hydrogen to heavy hydrogen supply by the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The MR images clearly show that the replacement of the H and D atoms takes place in the anode side (fuel supply side), and D atoms replace almost all H atoms in the electrolyte membrane. This suggests the proton conducting mechanism in the polymer electrolyte membrane is 'bulk mechanism', which protons transport by Grotthuss mechanism in the water of hydrophilic region of the membrane^<7,8>, rather than 'surface mechanism' or 'vehicular mechanism'.
    Water vapor distribution is a cathode channel of polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) composed of gas supply channel and porous gas diffusion layer is calculated by lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) in order to clarify effect of porous structure of GDL in PEFC on water distribution and dew point of supplied gas. It is shown that porosity of GDL affects maximum water concentration emerged in the GDL, resulting in increase of dew point with decrease of porosity. On the other hand, pore scale in the GDL is less influential on water concentration distribution and its sesultant dew point of the supplied gas in the cathode of PEFC.

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  • 多孔質内超臨界二酸化炭素の流動現象解明に基づく長期安定型地下貯留の実現

    Grant number:15710052  2003 - 2004

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  若手研究(B)

    末包 哲也

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    平成15年度においてMRIを用いた岩石内を流動する超臨界CO_2を直接可視化できることが明らかとなった.平成16年度はこれらの知見を基に,計測の高度化を行うとともに,計測結果を基に,定量的な解釈を試みた.
    第一に,平成15年度に用いたスピンエコー法による可視化手法を用いると計測時間が1分程度度と長くなり,時間分解能が足りなくなる.一方,円筒形の岩石コアに圧入されたCO_2は流れ水平面方向に均一であることが確認されている.よって,これを解決するために,スピンエコー法の中で,プロジェクション法と呼ばれる,水平面内にMR信号を積分して取得する方法を適用し,計測の高速化を図った.これにより,約10秒間隔でのデータの取得が可能となった.
    次に,地下900mに相当する高温高圧条件に置いて,CO_2の圧入過程をMRIを用いて計測した.これらのデータを基に,Goodfieldらが提案しているデータ解析手法の適用を行った.隔離したCO_2の長期挙動予測には漏洩を誘発する浮力の影響と漏洩を防ぐキャップロックの毛管圧の効果を正確に把握する必要がある.しかしながら,従来の計測方法ではこれらを独立して評価することが困難であった.本研究では,岩石内の任意の位置における飽和度をMRIにより時系列データとして取得することにより,これまでの手法では分離が困難であった,粘性,浮力,毛管圧の効果を区別して解釈することが可能であることを実験的に示した.

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  • Development Study on Solar Hydrogen Production with Concentrated-Solar-Beam Reactive Ceramics

    Grant number:15206112  2003 - 2004

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

    TAMAURA Yutaka, SUEKANE Tetsuya, IHARA Manabu, KANEKO Hiroshi, HASEGAWA Noriko, KODAMA Tatsuya

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    In the development of solar reactor for O2-releasing with Ni-ferrite (reactive ceramics), the two-step water splitting can be successfully proceeded repeatedly by temperature swing between 1473-1773K. For the Zn-ferrite system, a new solar reactor is designed based on the concept of recovering the powder mixture of ZnO+Fe3O4, and fabricated the practical testing instrument with a high temperature heat, for enhancing the reactivity of the Zn-ferrite system.
    With this experiment, it was found that the solar reactor adopting the Zn-ferrite system can be developed for proceeding the O2-releasing process at the temperature around 1573K. Also, the cylindrical rotary reactor was newly designed and fabricated, with which the O2-releasing and H2-generation steps can be continuously repeated using infra red imaging furnace. It was confirmed that the cylindrical rotary reactor can work with a high efficiency for the two step water splitting process.
    The optical system of the tower solar concentration plant was designed, and it was found that 3000 concentration can be obtained at the high solar angle, even though 2700 concentration is at least required, for the practical requirement of 2000 solar concentration.
    When the endothermic reaction proceeds, 6.22mol/m2 of YSZ01NF is consumed for 2000kW/m2 of the beam flux, indicating that the thickness of the solid reaction bed is several cm for the dual type solar reactor (cylindrical rotary reactor). Thus, combining the newly developed reactive ceramics of YSZ01 NF and the dual type solar reactor, the solar hydrogen production can be realized by making the best use of a high solar beam flux through the solar/chemical energy conversion.

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  • Convection and Diffusion of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in High-Pressure Porous Media Filled with Water

    Grant number:13450081  2001 - 2003

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    HIRAI Shuichiro, TSUSHIMA Shoji, SUEKANE Tetsuya

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    This paper describes experimental and numerical research on two-phase flow of supercritical CO_2 and water in porous media under sequestration conditions. We used a magnetic resonance imaging technique to directly visualize the distribution of supereritical CO_2 injected into porous media containing water. in situ water saturation distributions in a Berea sandstone core and a packed bed of glass beads were successfully visualized under conditions that simulate those at 700 -1000-m depths in an aquifers at the depth in the range from 700m to 1000m. By applying the coreflood interpretation method to our saturation data, we could describe the local Darcy phase velocities as a function of saturation. Finally, the effect of buoyancy on displacement process and gravity dominated pure counter-current flow is discussed by comparing the data obtained at two conditions that model the aquifers at depths of 1000 m and 700 m. We found that buoyancy largely controls the pure counter-current flow in well permeable porous media for conditions at 700 and 1000-m depths. We had developed a numerical code, which simulates two-phase flow of supercritical C0_2 and water in porous media including the effect of interfacial tension, wettability, buoyancy, and viscosity ratio, by a lattice Boltzmann method. A present study shows that the wettability and interfacial tension affect the relative permeability to deviate from Darcy law at low body forces such as buoyancy. Therefore, the effect of wettability and interfacial tension on the relative permeability should be taken into account to estimate the long-term fate of sequestered C0_2 by large-scalp reservoir simulations. The relative permeability of C0_2 decreases with an increase of the capillary pressure of water, As a result, the capillary pressure could make the flow of C0_2 slower than that has estimated in former simulations. Since the effect of the capillary pressure is significant in cap-rocks, the deviation from Darcy law is vital to the leakage of C0_2 through the cap-rocks.

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  • 高周波電磁界により駆動される円筒容器内流れの制御に関する研究

    Grant number:13750138  2001 - 2002

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  若手研究(B)

    末包 哲也

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    Grant amount:\2100000 ( Direct Cost: \2100000 )

    製鉄や半導体シリコン結晶の製造における品質向上のために、溶融金属の流動制御が求められるようになっている。溶融金属などの導電性流体に高周波電磁界を印可すると流体中に電磁界が誘導され、溶融金属は強い体積力(ローレンツ力)を受ける。体積力を一様に作用させ流動を抑制した場合、流体中に含まれる非導電性の不純物には見かけの浮力が働くことになり、流体中から不純物を除去することが可能になる。本研究では、これまでに、最も簡単な円筒容器内に封入された溶融金属流体を対象として、数値シミュレーションを行い、効果的に体積力を作用させるには最適な周波数が存在すること、コイル形状を変化させることにより体積力分布を変化させ、流動様式を変化させることができることを明らかにしている。本年度は、円管内流れに与える高周波電磁界の影響の解明することにより、不純物除去を目的とした最適条件の検討を行った。円筒容器と同様に、周波数依存性、コイル形状の影響に注目し、流動特性の解明を行った。加えて、圧力損失を求めることにより、流量制御の可能性を含めた検討を行った。以上の研究により、円管内流れに与える高周波電磁界の各種パラメータの影響を把握した後、特に、不純物の除去焦点を絞り、最適条件の検討を行った。具体的には、円管内の流れを乱すことなく、半径方向中心向きに体積力を作用させる条件を明らかに、流体に作用している体積力の情報を元に、不純物除去効率を求めた。

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  • Advance CO_2 Ocean Disposal for Long-term Sequestration and Reduced Biological Impact

    Grant number:12555055  2000 - 2002

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    HIRAI Shuichiro, SUEKANE Tetsuya, OKAZAKI Ken, OSUMI Takashi, TSUSHIMA Shoji

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    Among various CO_2 ocean sequestration technologies, measures to restrict the increase of atmospheric CO_2 concentration, releasing CO_2 droplets from towed pipe of ship reduces biological impact by the dilution of dissolved CO_2 due to the motion of moving ship. CO_2 droplets, released around 1500m ocean depth, rise upward due to buoyancy and dissolved CO_2 at the sea depth of 500-1500m is considered to outgas to the atmosphere in 20-100 years. Here, we present a new concept of CO_2 sequestration in the ocean that CO_2 would dissolve at the sea depth deeper than the release point (I.e., 1500m) and biological impact would be minimized. Before releasing CO_2 droplets from the tip of towed pipe of moving ship, hydrate line particles are formed by injecting water small droplets inside CO_2 droplets. Since density of hydrate is 1.1g/cm3, CO_2 droplets including hydrate line particles more than 40vol% sink downward from release point into deep ocean that result in longer term sequestration. In addition, since depth of ocean is 4000m on an average, long travel distance for CO_2 droplets dissolution enables diluted CO_2 dissolution、 pH profiles in most of the part of sea depth would be larger than 7.0, Where biological impact would be minimized. The present concept is verified by an experiment.

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  • Elucidation of Mass Transport and Film Structure by MRI and LBM

    Grant number:11650209  1999 - 2000

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    HIRAI Shuichiro, TSUSHIMA Shouji, SUEKANE Tetsuya, OKAZAKI Ken

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    CO2 Hydrate Film is formed at the interface between liquid CO_2 and water, which is observed in ocean sequestration. It possesses a porus structure that water and CO_2 molecules are transported through the film to keep the thickness constant. The present research has been made for the followings.
    (1) MRI Measurement of hydrate growth has been made. The growth rate of hydrate film thickness has been measured by an specially designed high-pressure apparatus. Application to advanced CO_2 sequestration technology has also been proposed.
    (2) Measurement of CO_2 hydrate film thickness based on mass transport mechanism has been made by an high pressure apparatus. It was estimated to be 0.0004mm.
    (3) Massive CO_2 clathrate hydrate growth at a High-Polar-Energy Surface has been clarified and also, lateral growth rates of CO_2 clathrate-hydrate Film has been measured.
    (4) A New Boundary Condition of Lattice Boltzmann Method has been developed for the calculation of complex flow in porus media.

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  • IMPROVEMENT OF PLASMA MHD GENERATOR PERFORMANCE BY OPTIMIZATION OF CHANNEL GEOMETRY

    Grant number:09305018  1997 - 1999

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

    YAMASAKI Hiroyuki, OKAMURA Tetsuji, OKUNO Yoshihiro, KABASHIMA Sigeharu, DEBASIS Biswas, OHGAKI Kumiko

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    The objective of present study is an improvement on performance of the plasma MHD generator which is expected to provide very high thermal efficiency.
    In fiscal 1997, effects of an area ratio on a relation between the isentropic efficiency and the enthalpy extraction were investigated experimentally and an optimization of the area ratio was also made. As a result, the highest isentropic efficiency was achieved and it was 46.5 %. At the same time, the highest power density of 140 MW/mィイD13ィエD1 was demonstrated. The experiments have indicated that a high isentropic efficiency required for a commercial power plant is possible only for the Disk MHD generator with a small area ratio.
    An introduction of an inlet swirl was adopted in fiscal 1998 in order to improve the enthalpy extraction. A new concept was adopted to the design of the swirl vane, and in order to design the swirl vanes, three-dimensional numerical simulation was carried. The simulation indicated that thin swirl vanes are useful to reduce fluid-dynamical loss. In the experiments with the inlet swirl, the enthalpy extraction was improved remarkably and as a result, the highest isentropic efficiency increased up to 54.3 %. This is the highest for the plasma MHD generator.
    In fiscal 1999, behavior of flow field and plasma in the MHD generator was investigated and a lot of important data was accumulated. The data have suggested that a large positive swirl and a high Mach number were kept in the MHD generator and this led to the high isentropic efficiency. The present study has encouraged us to proceed to the next step in which an achievement of higher performances than the present ones is a main objective.

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  • 高断熱効率を有する非平衡ディスク形MHD発電機の開発

    Grant number:09780453  1997 - 1998

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  奨励研究(A)

    末包 哲也

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    クローズドサイクルMHD発電の実用化には、高いエンタルピー抽出率と高い断熱効率を同時に達成する必要がある。最近の理論的な考察により、高い断熱効率を達成するには、小さな断面積比を有する発電流路で高いエンタルピー抽出率を達成する必要があることが指摘されている。これを受けて、本研究では、小さな断面積比を有するディスク形発電機を制作し、実験を行い、平成9年度にはエンタルピー抽出率28.8%、断熱効率50,8%を達成した。
    本年度はこれらの実験的知見を元に、発電流路の改造を行った。1)発電機のスロートと出口の断面積比は変更しない、2)境界層の影響、摩擦損失の影響を相対的に小さくできるように、チャネル高さを大きくする、の2点を指針として、発電機形状の改造を行った。また、さらに断面積比を縮小させる可能性を探るために、発電機入り口マッハ数をこれまでの2.6から2.4に変更した。
    入り口マッハ数を小さくしたために、発電機入り口から高い電気伝導度を持ったプラズマを発生させるためには、圧力を低くし、かつ、作動流体に添加するアルカリ金属(シード)を増やす必要があることがわかった。発電機高さを大きくしたために、外部回路から発電機内を見たときの抵抗が相対的に減少し、これまでの発電機と同じ負荷率を得るには、外部負荷抵抗の値を小さくする必要がある。以上のような方法で、プラズマと外部回路のマッチングを取ることにより、発電機入り口マッハ数を下げているにもかかわらず、エンタルピー抽出率25.6%、断熱効率49.0%とほぼ同程度の性能を得ることができた。また、流路高さを大きくしたことにより、同じエンタルピー抽出率に対して、高い断熱効率が得られた。

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  • 高断熱効率を有する非平衡ファラデー型MHD発電機の開発

    Grant number:08780468  1996

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  奨励研究(A)

    末包 哲也

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    セシウムを添加したアルゴンを作動気体に用いて、10.2%のエンタルピー抽出率を実証した、衝撃波管駆動のファラデー型MHD発電実験装置を用いて実験を行った。衝撃波管装置によって澱み点圧力0.4MPa、澱み点温度2000Kの超音速ガス流を約1ms流すことができる。発電機の発電流路入口に相当する部分に放電のための電極を3対設置し、高繰り返しパルス発生装置によって放電を行いプラズマの発生を試みた。断熱効率の計測には、澱み点圧力の計測が不可欠であり、澱み点圧力の損失メカニズムを明らかにするために、新たに澱み点圧測定用のピト-管を設置し、計測を行った。
    はじめに、断熱効率と発電機入口出口断面積比の理論的指摘を確認するために、流路断面積比、出口マッハ数、断熱効率の関係について調べた。作動流体にはアルゴン、ヘリウムを用い、それぞれの作動流体に対して、理論的に予測される値とよく一致した実験結果が得られた。また、ヘリウムを用いた場合、アルゴンに比べ高い負荷率での運転が可能であることが分かり、14.1%のエンタルピー抽出率と42.2%の断熱効率を実証した。
    次に、予備電離による性能向上の可能性を探る実験を行った。予備電離に必要な高繰り返し放電のための装置を試作し、試験を行った。その結果、シ-ドした作動流体がノズル内にある場合、良好な放電特性を得た。これを用いて、予備電離をした場合としていない場合を比較した実験を行った。放電構造の一様化が観察され、低負荷抵抗時の発電流路入り口付近での発電性能の向上か見られた。なお、予備電離の実験についてはシ-ド率の変化による影響も指摘されており、今後、より詳細な検討が必要であることが分かった。

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  • Removal of Molten Slag Particles by a Packed Bed of Ceramic Balls under High Temperature

    Grant number:07555385  1995 - 1996

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    YOSHIKAWA Kunio, OONISHI Hiroshi, SUEKANE Tetsuya

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    In this research, a new concept of a filter for capturing coal slag particles under high temperature is proposed, where high temperature combustion gas of coal with molten slag particles is introduced into a packed bed of ceramic balls (pebbles). In the packed bed, molten slag particles are captured by the inertial impaction and are extracted as a liquid condensate.
    In order to demonstrate the technical feasibility of this high temperature filter concept, hot model experiments have been carried out. In these experiments, coal fly ash was injected into a high temperature combustion gas of natural gas to produce combustion gas with molten slag particles, and this combustion gas was introduced into a pebble bed filter composed of refractory materials. The experimental results have successfully demonstrated continuous capture and extraction of slag particles without clogging of the slag extraction hole. At the same time, it has been shown that capture efficiency as high as 97% is achievable, which well coincides with the cold model experiments performed under normal temperature using oil droplets instead of real molten slag particles.
    One of critical technical problems associated with commercialization of this filter concept is the durability of the pebble materials contacting with molten slag. Thus the durability test of pebble materials against molten slag was conducted using an electric furnace. This test has shown that high purity alumina pebbles show good resistance against molten slag if the operating temperature is 1600゜C or less.
    Finally, some new coal-fired power generation systems combining the pebble bed filter and the high temperature air combustion technologies are proposed, which are environmentally friendly high efficiency systems.

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