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Kenneth Stuart Sorbie

Kenneth Stuart Sorbie

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
59
Citations
14543
World Ranking
2322
National Ranking
158

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Kenneth Stuart Sorbie is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. Their research lies primarily within the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Biomaterials, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of significant topics. These include:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
  • Industrial Gas Emission Control

Kenneth Stuart Sorbie has contributed to various peer-reviewed publications. Selected recent papers include:

  • On the Modelling of Immiscible Viscous Fingering in Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media, 2020, Transport in Porous Media
  • Scaling analysis of hydrogen flow with carbon dioxide cushion gas in subsurface heterogeneous porous media, 2021, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Numerical modelling of H2 storage with cushion gas of CO2 in subsurface porous media: Filter effects of CO2 solubility, 2022, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Immiscible Viscous Fingering: Modelling Unstable Water-Oil Displacement Experiments in Porous Media, 2022, Transport in Porous Media
  • Surface Chemistry of Phosphonate Scale Inhibitor Retention Mechanisms in Carbonate Reservoirs, 2020, Crystal Growth & Design

Their frequent coauthors include Eric Mackay, Alan Beteta, Tormod Skauge, G. Wang, and Gillian Elizabeth Pickup. Publications have appeared in several venues, with repeated contributions in:

  • SPE International Conference on Oilfield Chemistry
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference

Kenneth Stuart Sorbie was awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Polymer-improved oil recovery

    K. S. Sorbie

  • Low salinity oil recovery - an experimental investigation

    A Lager;K J Webb;C J J Black;Michael Singleton

  • New analytic form for the potential energy curves of stable diatomic states

    John N. Murrell;Kenneth S. Sorbie

  • 3D stochastic modelling of heterogeneous porous media - applications to reservoir rocks

    Kejian Wu;Marinus I. J. Van Dijke;Gary D. Couples;Zeyun Jiang

  • Mixing of injected, connate and aquifer brines in waterflooding and its relevance to oilfield scaling

    K.S Sorbie;E.J Mackay

  • Immiscible flow behaviour in laminated and cross-bedded sandstones

    P.S. Ringrose;K.S. Sorbie;P.W.M. Corbett;J.L. Jensen

  • Droplet fragmentation: 3D imaging of a previously unidentified pore-scale process during multiphase flow in porous media

    Tannaz Pak;Ian B. Butler;Sebastian Geiger;Marinus I. J. van Dijke

  • Efficient extraction of networks from three-dimensional porous media

    Z. Jiang;K. Wu;G. Couples;M. I. J. van Dijke

  • Representation of multiscale heterogeneity via multiscale pore networks

    Z. Jiang;M. I. J. van Dijke;K. S. Sorbie;G. D. Couples

  • Permeability tensors for sedimentary structures

    G. E. Pickup;P. S. Ringrose;J. L. Jensen;K. S. Sorbie

  • Two-Phase Pore-Network Modelling: Existence of Oil Layers During Water Invasion

    A. V. Ryazanov;M. I. J. van Dijke;K. S. Sorbie

  • The impact of wettability on waterflooding: Pore-scale simulation

    Steven Robert McDougall;Kenneth Stuart Sorbie

  • The rheology of pseudoplastic fluids in porous media using network modeling

    K.S Sorbie;P.J Clifford;E.R.W Jones

  • Gel Placement in Heterogeneous Systems With Crossflow

    K.S. Sorbie;R.S. Seright

  • Laminated Clastic Reservoirs: The Interplay of Capillary Pressure and Sedimentary Architecture

    P.W.M. Corbett;P.S. Ringrose;J.L. Jensen;K.S. Sorbie

  • Pore Scale Modelling of Wettability Effects and Their Influence on Oil Recovery

    Ashok B Dixit;Steven Robert McDougall;Kenneth Stuart Sorbie;J. S. Buckley

  • Empirical measures of wettability in porous media and the relationship between them derived from pore-scale modelling.

    Ashok B Dixit;J.S. Buckley;Steven Robert McDougall;Kenneth Stuart Sorbie

  • Efficient flow and transport simulations in reconstructed 3D pore geometries

    Yan Zaretskiy;Sebastian Geiger;Ken Sorbie;Malte Förster

  • How Scale Inhibitors Work: Mechanisms of Selected Barium Sulphate Scale inhibitors Across a Wide Temperature Range

    K.S. Sorbie;N. Laing

  • A proposed pore-scale mechanism for how low salinity waterflooding works

    Kenneth Stuart Sorbie;Ian Collins

  • Semiclassical eigenvalues for non-separable bound systems from classical trajectories: The degenerate case

    K.S. Sorbie;N.C. Handy

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Ringrose
Philip Ringrose Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Anne Neville
Anne Neville University of Leeds
Arne Skauge
Arne Skauge Heriot-Watt University
Sebastian Geiger
Sebastian Geiger Heriot-Watt University
Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood University of Edinburgh
Mehran Sohrabi
Mehran Sohrabi Heriot-Watt University
Ian B. Butler
Ian B. Butler University of Edinburgh
Andrew Curtis
Andrew Curtis University of Edinburgh
John N. Murrell
John N. Murrell University of Sussex
Martin J. Blunt
Martin J. Blunt Imperial College London

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