This paper reports on the use of a high pH chemical flood reservoir simulator to simulate high pH coreflood experiments. The coreflood experiments include one alkaline flood, two alkaline/polymer floods under two different salinity environments and an alkaline/surfactant/polymer flood. The agreement between the experimental and numerical oil recoveries and produced chemical compositions is very encouraging and supports the validity of the mathematical model used in the simulator. The importance of the preflush brine salinity, mobility control and effective salinity gradient using a cosurfactant as observed in the experimental data are also evident from the numerical results. Most of the fundamental mechanisms known for micellar/polymer flooding also seem to apply to high pH chemical floods, especially the dominant effect of low interfacial tension. This is the first time that comparisons have been made between a mechanistic reservoir simulator and high pH coreflood experiments. Such comparisons have yielded new insights into high pH chemical flooding.
In this article we seek to model a base valve of a twin tube shock absorber and study the behaviour of the valve under loaded conditions replacing a mono tube shock absorber. A top down approach was adopted for this work wherein a commercially available shock absorber was stripped down to obtain the individual valves inside. Product teardown was done for the various subassemblies and the base valve was isolated. Modelling was done in PTC Creo 2.0 and the FEA study for the stress and flow analysis was done using ANSYS 15.0. The materials as well as the hydraulic fluid selected for the design were validated and proved to give a better performance than a mono tube shock absorber currently being used in automobiles.
Cannulation of the aorta is done in order to provide oxygenation and circulatory function through the use of the heart lung machine during cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB). The nature of the blood flow through the aorta and its ramifications during CPB is mostly linear as compared to the physiological flow, which is pulsatile in nature. This leads to the development of multiple morbidities caused by the development of emboli and atheromas. Perioperative postoperative care is necessitated by these conditions. As such the understanding of the blood flow characteristics is necessitated in order to effectively prevent the formation of emboli and to prevent the "Sandblasting" effect. The authors in this work seek to investigate the nature of blood flow through the aorta under such circumstances. The results obtained show the nature of blood flow in the cannulated aorta as well as the optimum angle of placement of the cannula with respect to the aortic wall.
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