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51
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3780
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27

Overview

Tadeusz W Patzek is affiliated with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with significant contributions in several related subfields including ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, environmental engineering, and geophysics.

The scientist's published work prominently addresses topics such as hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, enhanced oil recovery techniques, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, groundwater flow and contamination studies, petroleum processing and analysis, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tadeusz W Patzek include M.P. Yutkin, Clayton J. Radke, Weiwei Zhu, Siarhei Khirevich, and Wardana Saputra.

The following recent papers illustrate the scope and impact of their research:

  • "Staying Cool in A Warming Climate: Temperature, Electricity and Air Conditioning in Saudi Arabia" (2020) published in Climate
  • "Capacity factors for electrical power generation from renewable and nonrenewable sources" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Impact of Fracture Geometry and Topology on the Connectivity and Flow Properties of Stochastic Fracture Networks" (2021) published in Water Resources Research
  • "Data-driven analysis of climate change in Saudi Arabia: trends in temperature extremes and human comfort indicators" (2021) published in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • "Physical Scaling of Oil Production Rates and Ultimate Recovery from All Horizontal Wells in the Bakken Shale" (2020) published in Energies

Tadeusz W Patzek has published extensively in several frequently featured venues. These include Energies, International Petroleum Technology Conference, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Transport in Porous Media, and Sustainability.

The breadth of their research encompasses both theoretical and applied aspects of energy and environmental systems, highlighting interconnections between engineering disciplines and climate-related challenges. Their work spans analysis of reservoir behavior, energy production efficiencies, and environmental impacts, with emphasis on improving understanding of complex systems in both natural and industrial contexts.

Best Publications

  • Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower

    David Pimentel;Tadeusz W Patzek

  • Verification of a Complete Pore Network Simulator of Drainage and Imbibition

    Tad W. Patzek

  • Pore space morphology analysis using maximal inscribed spheres

    Dmitriy Silin;Tadeusz W Patzek

  • Development of a mechanistic foam simulator: The population balance and generation by snap-off

    A.H. Falls;G.J. Hirasaki;T.W. Patzek;D.A. Gauglitz

  • Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle

    Tad W. Patzek

  • Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory

    Tad W. Patzek;Frank Male;Michael Marder

  • Shape Factor and Hydraulic Conductance in Noncircular Capillaries I. One-Phase Creeping Flow

    Tadeusz W Patzek;Tadeusz W Patzek;D. B. Silin

  • Robust determination of the pore-space morphology in sedimentary rocks

    Dmitry B. Silin;Guodong Jin;Tad W. Patzek

  • A mechanistic population balance model for transient and steady-state foam flow in Boise sandstone

    A. R. Kovscek;A. R. Kovscek;Tadeusz W Patzek;C. J. Radke;C. J. Radke

  • A global coal production forecast with multi-Hubbert cycle analysis

    Tadeusz W. Patzek;Gregory D. Croft

  • Thermodynamics of energy production from biomass

    Tadeusz W Patzek;David Pimentel

  • Modeling Gas Adsorption in Marcellus Shale With Langmuir and BET Isotherms

    Wei Yu;Kamy Sepehrnoori;Tadeusz W. Patzek

  • Production Forecasting with Logistic Growth Models

    Aaron James Clark;Larry Wayne Lake;Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  • The Mathematical Model of Nonequilibrium Effects in Water-Oil Displacement

    G. I. Barenblatt;Tadeusz W Patzek;D. B. Silin

  • The Mathematical Model of Non-Equilibrium Effects in Water-Oil Displacement

    G.I. Barenblatt;T.W. Patzek;D.B. Silin

  • Field Applications of Steam Foam for Mobility Improvement and Profile Control

    Tad W. Patzek

  • Ethanol production: energy, economic, and environmental losses.

    David Pimentel;Tad Patzek;Gerald Neil Cecil

  • Kern River Steam-Foam Pilots

    T.W. Patzek;M.T. Koinis

  • Microtomography and Pore-Scale Modeling of Two-Phase Fluid Distribution

    Dmitriy Silin;Liviu Tomutsa;Sally M. Benson;Tadeusz W Patzek

  • MODELING OF MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT OF MULTICOMPONENT ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS AND HEAT IN THE SUBSURFACE : NUMERICAL MODEL FORMULATION

    A. E. Adenekan;Tadeusz W Patzek;K. Pruess

  • SPE 84296 Robust Determination of the Pore Space Morphology in Sedimentary Rocks

    Dmitry B. Silin;Guodong Jin;Tad W. Patzek

Frequent Co-Authors

Clayton J. Radke
Clayton J. Radke University of California, Berkeley
Michael P Marder
Michael P Marder The University of Texas at Austin
Anthony R. Kovscek
Anthony R. Kovscek Stanford University
Kamy Sepehrnoori
Kamy Sepehrnoori The University of Texas at Austin
Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson Stanford University
David Pimentel
David Pimentel Cornell University
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt University of California, Berkeley
L. E. Scriven
L. E. Scriven University of Minnesota
Wei Yu
Wei Yu The University of Texas at Austin

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