Kaiqiang Zhang

Dr. Kaiqiang Zhang

Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London (SW7 2AZ), United Kingdom

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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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6 February 2023 in Geophysical Research Letters
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SLSongyan Li
Songyan Li
PWPeng Wang
Peng Wang
ZWZhoujie Wang
Zhoujie Wang
HCHao Cheng
Hao Cheng
Kaiqiang ZhangKaiqiang Zhang
Kaiqiang Zhang
Geological CO2 storage is an emerging topic in energy and environmental community, which is, as a commonly accepted sense, considered as the most promising and powerful approach to mitigate the global carbon emissions during the transition to net‐zero. Of the geological media which initially considered cover the saline aquifers, oil and gas reservoirs, coal beds, and potentially basalts, up to now only the first two choices have been proven to be the most capable storage sites and successfully implemented at pilot/commercial scales. Here, two tandem papers propose novel strategies for the first time, by synthesizing and utilizing new high‐dryness CO2 foam, to enhance geological CO2 storage capacity in saline aquifer and oil and gas reservoirs. In this paper, a new high‐dryness CO2 foam is synthesized and injected into the saline aquifers to explore the storage capacity enhancement, with the unique foam‐induced advantages of sweep area expansion and storage efficiency improvement. Such a new idea is specifically evaluated and validated through a series of static analytical and dynamic performance experiments. With the optimum surfactant concentration of 0.5 wt%, the foaming volume and quality are determined to be 521 mL and 80.81%, respectively, which also shows excellent salt tolerance with 45,000 ppm Na+, 25,000 ppm Ca2+, and 25,000 ppm Mg2+. Moreover, the water consumption for CO2 storage decreases from 464.31 g/mol at 25% foam quality to 67.38 g/mol at 85% foam quality by using the new CO2 foam. Overall, the newly synthesized CO2 foam could effectively enhance geological CO2 storage capacity and concurrently diminish water consumption, therefore realizing the win‐win environment and economic benefits.

1 January 2022 in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
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HWHengli Wang
Hengli Wang
LTLeng Tian
Leng Tian
XCXiaolong Chai
Xiaolong Chai
JWJiaxin Wang
Jiaxin Wang
Kaiqiang ZhangKaiqiang Zhang
Kaiqiang Zhang

17 September 2024 in Nature Protocols
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ZPZiqing Pan
Ziqing Pan
JTJ. P. Martin Trusler
J. P. Martin Trusler
ZJZhijun Jin
Zhijun Jin
Kaiqiang ZhangKaiqiang Zhang
Kaiqiang Zhang

1 December 2018 in Fuel
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SLSongyan Li
Songyan Li
Kaiqiang ZhangKaiqiang Zhang
Kaiqiang Zhang
NJNa Jia
Na Jia
Lirong LiuLirong Liu
Lirong Liu

27 November 2017 in RSC Advances
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Kaiqiang ZhangKaiqiang Zhang
Kaiqiang Zhang
NJNa Jia
Na Jia
SLSongyan Li
Songyan Li
In this paper, effects of temperature, initial oil and injection gas compositions, and feed gas–oil ratio on oil–CO 2 interfacial tensions, interfacial thicknesses, and minimum miscibility pressures (MMPs) in nanopores are specifically studied.