Mingzhe Dong
Professor
Ph.D. P.Eng.
- Room: EEEL 415B
- Telephone: (403) 210-7642
- Fax: (403) 284-4852
- E-mail: mtdong [at] ucalgary [dot] ca
- BASc. Northwest University, Xi'an (1982)
- MASc. University of Petroleum, Beijing (1985)
- Ph.D. University of Waterloo (1995)
Research Interests:
- Fluid flow in porous media
- Enhanced oil recovery
- Surface chemistry and interfacial phenomena
- Reservoir simulation
- Phase behaviour in enhance oil recovery processes
Research Activities:
Fundamental studies on multiphase flow in porous media. Three factors are considered: transport phenomena, interfacial effects, and pore structure. This research investigates the role played by capillary forces in immiscible displacement in porous media, thick-oil film formation and flow in three-phase systems, and measurement and modeling of three-phase relative permeabilities.
Research on enhanced oil recovery (EOR). EOR techniques studied include miscible/immiscible gas injection, ASP flooding, thermal recovery and solvent methods. One of the EOR programs is to combine low interfacial tension, mass transfer, and mechanical shear (disturbance) in a chemical injection process such that heavy oil can be broken up into small droplets, entrained in the water phase, and carried out of oil sands or deposits.
Study of interfacial phenomena. Various interfacial phenomena are studied for oil recovery and surface handling processes, such as oil/water separation, emulsification, and adsorption of surfactant and polymer on reservoir rocks.
Research on greenhouse gas sequestration in depleted oil and gas reservoirs. This area includes studies of CO2 diffusion in water and oil saturated cores, long-term fate of CO2 injected in geological storages, and injection strategies of CO2 injection for sequestration.