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Gas Transport in Porous Media

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Clifford K. Ho

    1. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

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  2. Stephen W. Webb

    1. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

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  • Describes gas and vapor transport processes in porous media (no other books have focused on this particular area)
  • Provides a combination of theoretical, computational, experimental, and field studies
  • Discusses modern applications of gas transport in porous media that will be of interest to scientists and practitioners working in this area

Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 20)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Processes and Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-4
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    2. Introduction

      • Clifford K. Ho, Stephen W. Webb
      Pages 1-2

    3. Gas Transport Mechanisms

      • Stephen W. Webb
      Pages 5-26

    4. Vapor Transport Processes

      • Clifford K. Ho
      Pages 27-46

    5. Solid/Gas Partitioning

      • Say-Kee Ong
      Pages 47-54

    6. Two-Phase Gas Transport

      • Stephen W. Webb
      Pages 55-70

    7. Conservation Equations

      • Stephen Whitaker
      Pages 71-120

    8. Gas-Phase Dispersion in Porous Media

      • Molly S. Costanza-Robinson, Mark L. Brusseau
      Pages 121-132

    9. Gas Injection and Fingering in Porous Media

      • Muhammad Sahimi, M. Reza Rasaei, Manouchehr Haghighi
      Pages 133-168

    10. Unstable and Fingering Gas Flow in Fractures

      • Peter Persoff
      Pages 169-178

    11. Natural Convection Gas Transport in Porous Media

      • K. Khanafer, K. Vafai
      Pages 179-200

    12. Scaling Issues in Porous and Fractured Media

      • Vincent C. Tidwell
      Pages 201-212

    13. Numerical Codes for Continuum Modeling of Gas Transport in Porous Media

      • Karsten Pruess
      Pages 213-220

    14. Lattice Boltzmann Method for Calculating Fluid Flow and Dispersion in Porous and Fractured Media

      • Harlan W. Stockman
      Pages 221-242

  3. Measurement and Monitoring

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-244
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    2. Experimental Determination of Transport Parameters

      • Olga Šolcová, Petr Schneider
      Pages 245-272

    3. Air Permeability Measurements in Porous Media

      • Vincent C. Tidwell
      Pages 273-278

    4. Analyzing Barometric Pumping to Characterize Subsurface Permeability

      • Joseph Rossabi
      Pages 279-290

    5. Subsurface Flow Measurements

      • Joseph Rossabi
      Pages 291-302
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CLIFFORD K. HOAND STEPHEN W. WEBB Sandia National Laboratories, P. O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA Gas and vapor transport in porous media occur in a number of important applications includingdryingofindustrialandfoodproducts,oilandgasexploration,environm- tal remediation of contaminated sites, and carbon sequestration. Understanding the fundamental mechanisms and processes of gas and vapor transport in porous media allows models to be used to evaluate and optimize the performance and design of these systems. In this book, gas and vapor are distinguished by their available states at stan- ? dard temperature and pressure (20 C, 101 kPa). If the gas-phase constituent can also exist as a liquid phase at standard temperature and pressure (e. g. , water, ethanol, toluene, trichlorothylene), it is considered a vapor. If the gas-phase constituent is non-condensable at standard temperature and pressure (e. g. , oxygen, carbon di- ide, helium, hydrogen, propane), it is considered a gas. The distinction is important because different processes affect the transport and behavior of gases and vapors in porous media. For example, mechanisms specific to vapors include vapor-pressure lowering and enhanced vapor diffusion, which are caused by the presence of a g- phase constituent interacting with its liquid phase in an unsaturated porous media. In addition, the “heat-pipe” exploits isothermal latent heat exchange during evaporation and condensation to effectively transfer heat in designed and natural systems.

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  • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

    Clifford K. Ho, Stephen W. Webb

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