Shale gas reservoirs are unconventional resources with great potential to help meet energy demands. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have been extensively used for the exploitation of these unconventional resources. According to engineeri...
During hydraulic fracturing, the extensive use of slickwater and post-fracturing shut-in (soaking) processes take advantage of spontaneous imbibition to displace crude oil. While nano-flooding agents are known to reduce interfacial tension (IFT) and...
The water huff-n-puff imbibition oil recovery technique has been recognized as an important approach to supplementing formation energy and recovering the remaining oil, attracting increasing attention. To further improve imbibition efficiency, a surf...
Forced and spontaneous imbibition of water is performed to displace oil from strongly water-wet Gray Berea (~130 mD) and Bentheimer (~1900 mD) sandstone core plugs. Two nonpolar oils (n-heptane and Marcol-82) were used as a non-wetting phase, w...
Due to the complex physical properties of low-permeability glutenite reservoirs, the oil recovery rate with conventional development is low. Surfactants are effective additives for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) due to their good ability of wettability...
To evaluate how field-applied imbibition agents affect oil recovery and pore-scale oil mobilization in Chang 8 tight sandstone, natural cores from Longdong, Ordos Basin, were tested using CNI-A, CQH-1, and EOS-3. Surface tension, oil–water inte...
The pore and throat structure of tight oil reservoir cores is complex, and the resistance of oil drop to discharge from the core is very high during dynamic imbibition. Surfactant has good ability in interfacial tension reduction and wettability reve...
Foam concrete is highly valued as a sustainable cement-based material, but the development of 3D-printed foam concrete (3DPFC) has remained constrained. This study investigated the influence of printing interval on the microstructure and imbibition b...
The current oil recovery of the Lucaogou shale oil reservoir is predicted to be about 7.2%. It is crucial to explore improved oil recovery (IOR) technologies, and further experimental and field research needs to be conducted to study the complex mech...
Surfactant-assisted spontaneous imbibition is an important mechanism in enhanced oil recovery by capillary pressure in low permeability and tight oil reservoirs. Though many experiments have been conducted to study the mechanism of enhanced oil recov...
Analysis of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs), as a highly heterogeneous and complex system, requires a detailed study of the fracture-matrix interactions. The main process of fluid movement between the fracture and matrix is sponta...
Low porosity and ultra-low permeability are common characteristics of shale reservoirs. Traditional imbibition theory is unable to adequately describe fluid transport behavior in nanopores or capture microscopic mechanisms. In this study, imbibition...
Seed imbibition is a very important process in plant biology by which, thanks to a simple water income, a dry seed may turn into a developing organism. In natural conditions, this process occurs in the soil, e.g., with difficult access for a direct o...
Lacustrine shale oil in the Chang 7 Member of the Ordos Basin is controlled by a multi-scale pore–throat system in which oil occurrence, spontaneous imbibition, and pore-structure evolution are tightly coupled. In this study, nitrogen adsorptio...
The effect of molecule–surface interaction strength on water becomes pronounced when pore size shrinks to the nanoscale, leading to the spatially varying viscosity and water slip phenomena that break the theoretical basis of the classic Lucas&n...
Spontaneous imbibition plays a critical role in enhancing oil recovery. It also helps optimize fracturing fluid design in tight oil reservoirs. Conventional evaluation methods mainly rely on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on intact core...
Despite the implementation of hydraulic fracturing technologies, the oil recovery in tight oil reservoirs is still poor. In this study, cationic, anionic, and nonionic surfactants of various sorts were investigated to improve oil recovery in tight ca...
The traditional approach for evaluating capillary imbibition, which describes the phenomena as a linear relationship between mass gain and the square root of time, considers a rigid pore structure. The common deviation from the linearity when using t...
Legume seeds are often sown on standing rice crops a few weeks before rice harvest (relay cropping). Seeds cannot germinate in waterlogged soil under relay sowing as oxygen is depleted. However, seeds may survive under soil waterlogging if the seeds...
Tight gas reservoirs possess unique pore structures and fluid flow mechanisms. Delving into the flow and imbibition mechanisms of water in fractured tight gas reservoirs is crucial for understanding and enhancing the development efficiency of such re...
The determination of microscopic residual gas distribution is beneficial for exploiting reservoirs to their maximum potential. In this work, both forced and spontaneous imbibition (waterflooding) experiments were performed on a high-pressure displace...
Seed priming protocols implement incomplete imbibition phases, as well as physical, chemical or biological treatments, to activate pre-germinative metabolism and stress response, thus improving germination performances, seedling establishment and str...
To meet the demand for enhanced oil recovery in shale reservoirs and to improve the fluidity of shale oil while strengthening its imbibition effect, a multifunctional, thermally stable nanofluid agent, SDP-3, was synthesized using acrylamide (AM) and...
The seeds of red clover are heteromorphic and two color morphs can be visually recognized, light purple and yellow, resulting from heterozygosity and recessive homozygosity at two loci. Here, we report the responses of seed imbibition, seed germinati...
To address the challenges of strong heterogeneity and poor crude oil mobility in tight conglomerate reservoirs of the Mahu Oilfield, this study systematically evaluated the effects of different surfactants on wettability alteration, spontaneous imbib...
Unconventional low-permeability reservoirs present significant production challenges due to the poor imbibition and displacement efficiency of conventional polymer fracturing fluids. The injection of nanoparticle (NP) compounds into polymer fracturin...
The biospeckle laser (BSL) technique is recognized as a sensitive method for detecting biological activity and has been successfully applied for seed vigor testing. Given these achievements, whether the integration of BSL into automated systems can p...
To address the unclear microscopic mechanisms of water huff-n-puff in tight reservoirs under the influence of salinity, a visual physical model for microscopic flow in fracturing fluid displacement was constructed. It was clarified that the fluid dis...
Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) is a drought-tolerant, underutilised legume with the potential to improve food security, but its slow, uneven germination due to hard seed coats constrains cultivation. This study investigated the eff...
Aiming at the problems of low permeability, strong heterogeneity, high salinity, poor injectivity of the target reservoir, and the inability of traditional water flooding to effectively improve the oil recovery rate, a low interfacial tension and sal...
Greenhouse gases such as CO2 can be safely captured and stored in geologic formations, which in turn can reduce the carbon imprint in the Earth’s atmosphere and therefore help toward reducing global warming. The relative permeability characteri...
Plants in the Amaryllidaceae family synthesize a diversity of bioactive alkaloids. Some of these plant species are not abundant and have a low natural multiplication rate. The aims of this work were the alkaloids analysis of a Habranthus cardenasianu...
Successful germination and seedling development are crucial steps in the growth of a new plant. In this study, we investigated the course of the cell cycle during germination in relation to grain hydration in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon (...
Understanding gas–water two-phase flow mechanisms in deep tight gas reservoirs is critical for improving production performance and mitigating water invasion. However, the effects of pore-throat-fracture multiscale structures on gas–water flow remain...
Spontaneous imbibition (SI) is the key mechanism governing oil production in fractured carbonates, where capillary forces drive oil from the low-permeability matrix into the fractures. Its application is limited by the strongly oil-wet nature of carb...
(1) Background: Seed storage mobilization, together with oxidative metabolism, with the ascorbate–glutathione (AsA-GSH) cycle as a crucial signaling and metabolic functional crossroad, is one of the main regulators of the control of cell morpho...
Orthodox seeds deteriorate even when stored in the best of conditions; hence, it is very important to monitor germination in stored seeds. To assess orthodox seed deterioration, a germination test is usually employed. This study assessed and compared...
Maize seeds undergo a rapid germination phase, spanning from dry seeds to radicle protrusion, which is highly susceptible to various abiotic stresses. However, the specific distinctions between responses to different abiotic stresses and the genes co...
After hydraulic fracturing of C shale formation, it is difficult to get stable production, and the flowback efficiency of fracturing fluid is low. In order to reveal the law of fracturing fluid invasion and flowback behavior and to investigate the mi...
This study experimentally investigates the effect of green polymeric nanoparticles on the interfacial tension (IFT) and wettability of carbonate reservoirs to effectively change the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) parameters. This experimental study comp...
Asexual fungal endophytes of the genus Epichloë form mutualistic associations with Pooideae grasses and are transmitted vertically through seeds. Although these associations can improve pasture performance and persistence, global host transcript...
Dormancy is an adaptive trait that blocks seed germination until the environmental conditions become favorable for subsequent vegetative plant growth. Seed dormancy is defined as the inability to germinate in favorable conditions. Dormancy is allevia...
The effect of fluid distribution on seismic-wave propagation is of great importance to oil and gas exploration. In rock-physics experiments, different saturation methods result in different fluid distributions. At the same saturation, the drainage pr...
The use of trace elements in agriculture as a complement to crop fertilization programs is a practice that is gaining importance and relevance worldwide. Iodine and selenium perform essential functions in human health, related to the proper functioni...
Lightweight Sorel’s cement composites doped with coal fly ash were produced and tested. Commercially available foam granulate was used as lightening aggregate. For comparison, reference composites made of magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) and quartz...
Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with the polymer anion poly(styrenesulfonate), PEDOT:PSS, is a common electrochromic material used in the preparation of electrochromic devices (ECDs). In this paper, the PEDOT:PSS doped with a solvent was used...
Seed germination is a critical developmental stage exhibiting high vulnerability to salt stress. The role of MYB transcription factors (TFs) in mediating this process in Cannabis sativa L. remains largely unexplored. In this study, we performed a gen...
The global expansion of rapeseed seed quality has been focused on maintaining glucosinolate (GSL) and erucic acid (EA) contents. However, the influence of seed GSL and EA contents on the germination process under drought stress remains poorly underst...
To investigate the mechanism whereby well shut-ins and surfactant additivities can increase hydrocarbon output after hydraulic fracturing, in this paper, we simulated well shut-ins with one end open (OEO) rock samples and performed a serious of imbib...
Drug delivery by means of transdermal patches raised great interest as a non-invasive and sustained therapy. The present research aimed to design a patch for transdermal delivery of melatonin, which was encapsulated in polycaprolactone (PCL) nanopart...
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