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Approximate Analytical Solutions for 1-D Immiscible Water Alternated Gas by Pires, Adolfo P., Barros, Wagner Q., Peres, Alvaro M. M.

“…Water Alternated Gas (WAG) flooding is largely used as an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) method in oil fields. It is based on the high sweep efficiency of the…”
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Mathematical modeling of hot carbonated waterflooding as an enhanced oil recovery technique by Marotto, Tamires A., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…•Analytical solution for the problem of one-dimensional oil displacement by hot carbonated water as a combined thermal-solvent EOR method.•Mass transfer of CO2…”
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Using a machine learning proxy for localization in ensemble data assimilation by Lacerda, Johann M., Emerick, Alexandre A., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Ensemble data assimilation methods, particularly iterative forms of ensemble smoother, are very useful assisted history matching techniques. One of the main…”
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Analytical solution for one-dimensional three-phase incompressible flow in porous media for concave relative permeability curves by Barros, Wagner Q., Pires, Adolfo P., Peres, Alvaro M.M.

“…Three-phase flow in porous media may appear in different scenarios during the production life of a hydrocarbon reservoir. The simultaneous flow of different…”
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Mathematical Model of Water Alternated Polymer Injection by Vicente, Bruno J., Priimenko, Viatcheslav I., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods include the injection of aqueous polymer solutions slugs driven by water. Polymer solutions increase water…”
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A new pot still distillation model approach with parameter estimation by multi-objective optimization by Soares, A. M. Jr, Henderson, Nélio, Mota, Breno T., Pires, Adolfo P., Ramos, Valéria D.

“…•A new approach for pot still distillation model based on heat transfer modeling.•A pot still distillation process model suitable to inverse problem…”
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A New Multiscale Computational Model for Low Salinity Waterflooding in Clay Bearing Sandstones by Lima, Sidarta A., Murad, Márcio A., Vicente, Bruno J., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…We develop a new multiscale model to compute effective properties such as relative permeability, contact angle and partition coefficients in low salinity…”
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A Robust Algorithm for Roots Selection and Saturation Pressure Calculation for Cubic Equations of State by Soares Junior, Acir M., Pires, Adolfo P., Henderson, Nélio, Mota, Breno T., Barros, Wagner Queiroz

“…In this work, a robust and rigorous procedure for roots calculation and selection for a Cubic Equation of State is presented. Roundoff errors are detected and…”
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Application of neural network to speed-up equilibrium calculations in compositional reservoir simulation by Barros, Wagner Q., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Compositional reservoir simulation is an important tool to model fluid flow in oil and gas reservoirs. Important investment decisions regarding oil recovery…”
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Water slug injection containing n polymers in porous media by Paula, Anália S., Apolinário, Felipe, Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Injection of water containing dissolved chemicals is an efficient oil recovery technique. One of the problems of this method is the loss of the chemical…”
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Application of an equation of state incorporating association to alcohols up to decanol by Menegazzo, Thomas A.S., Soares Junior, Acir M., Mota, Breno T., Henderson, Nélio, Pires, Adolfo P.

“…The accurate prediction of fluid phase equilibria is essential to the design of any process in chemical industry. Most of the simulators used to model…”
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Semi-analytical solution for a hyperbolic system modeling 1D polymer slug flow in porous media by Vicente, Bruno J., Priimenko, Viatcheslav I., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…In this paper we study one-dimensional displacement of oil by a polymeric solution in porous medium. The model uses the two phase extension of the Darcy law,…”
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Mathematical modeling of low salinity waterflooding in sandstone reservoirs: Enhanced Oil Recovery by multicomponent cation exchange by Apolinário, Felipe de O., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Low salinity waterflooding is the injection of water with a smaller salt concentration than the connate water. The control of the pH of injection water, and…”
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Improving water–hydrocarbon equilibrium calculations using multi objective optimization by Vinhal, André P.C., Soares, Acir M., Pires, Adolfo P., Barros, Wagner Q.

“…The addition of chemical terms to Cubic Equations of State to improve polar components Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium prediction overestimates the critical point. In…”
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Mathematical model for one-dimensional oil displacement by steam injection with solvent addition by Marotto, Tamires A., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Recently, co-injection of steam and solvent has shown to be an attractive technique to increase oil recovery, combining the advantages of viscosity reduction…”
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Methods to mitigate loss of variance due to sampling errors in ensemble data assimilation with non-local model parameters by Lacerda, Johann M., Emerick, Alexandre A., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Ensemble data assimilation methods are among the most successful techniques for assisted history matching. However, these methods suffer from sampling errors…”
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Oil displacement by multicomponent slug injection: An analytical solution for Langmuir adsorption isotherm by Apolinário, Felipe de O., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Injection of water containing dissolved chemical components is one of the most important enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques. This problem can be modeled by…”
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An equation of state for property prediction of alcohol–hydrocarbon and water–hydrocarbon systems by Pires, Adolfo P, Mohamed, Rahoma S, Ali Mansoori, G

“…Equations of state have been widely used in the petroleum and chemical industries for thermodynamic property calculation. In the presence of polar substances…”
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Injection of water slug containing two polymers in porous media: Analytical solution for two-phase flow accounting for adsorption effects by de O Apolinário, Felipe, de Paula, Anália S., Pires, Adolfo P.

“…Polymer flooding is the most applied chemical method of enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Usually this process consists of injecting a slug containing dissolved…”
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Semi-analytical transient pressure solution for power-law polymer injection in a vertical well by Radovanovic, Anna M., Pires, Adolfo P., Peres, Alvaro M.M.

“…Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is a process that extends reservoir life through field operations that aim to increase reservoir displacement efficiency. Injection…”
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