Shyamol Das

MSc student - Eng

Biography

Shyamol graduated from Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh with a B. Sc. in Chemical Technology and Polymer Science (First Class Honours) at 2001. His undergraduate thesis was entitled "Development of the Production Technology of Gasoline & Diesel Fuel". After the graduation he worked for an Aluminium industry as an Assistant Anodizing Engineer. Shyamol completed MPE course from this school at 2006. He commenced his MEngSc at the Australian School of Petroleum in 2007.

Research Project

A study of Oxidation Reaction Kinetics during an Air Injection Process

Supervisors: Prof. Hemanta Sarma and: Dr. Mofazzal Hossain

Scholarship support: Santos Scholarship

Project Description

Air injection is an Enhanced Oil Recovery technique uses an abundant and inexpensive injectant, air, to accelerate oil recovery and increase reserves with the oxidation of reservoir crude oil. This technique consumes 5-10 % of OOIP and generates flue gases in situ that turn drive and mobilize the oil towards producers through displacement, dissolution, re-pressurisation and later stages, by thermal effects. Economic development of many of the reserves around the world will require application of novel technologies, such as enhanced oil recovery by air injection.

To a large extent work has been carried out to study the thermal and fluid dynamics aspects of the air injection process. However, the chemical kinetics remains the least investigated aspects of underground combustion. Moreover, limited kinetic data are available in the petroleum literature on the rates and the nature of the partial oxidation reactions and high temperature combustion reactions of reservoirs crude's during air injection. Main aspect of this research is to develop an analytical model that will determine the oxidation reaction kinetics during air injection. In addition, an attempt will be evaluate the effect of oxygen concentration in the injected air on the stoichiometry of the combustion process and the effect of reservoir crude properties on oxidation kinetics of the combustion process.