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Yongan Gu is affiliated with the University of Regina in Canada and specializes in engineering, with a focus on ocean engineering, analytical chemistry, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, and environmental engineering. Their research primarily addresses enhanced oil recovery techniques, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, petroleum processing and analysis, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, and drilling and well engineering.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Development of Novel Silicon-Based Thickeners for a Supercritical CO2 Fracturing Fluid and Study on Its Rheological and Frictional Drag Behavior, 2020, Energy & Fuels
  • Solvent-assisted water pressure cycling (SA-WPC) process in a thin heavy oil reservoir, 2020, Fuel
  • A new experimental method for measuring the bubble-point pressures of the light crude oil-CO2 system at different CO2 concentrations, 2021, Fuel
  • Solvent effects on the measured bubble-point pressures and pseudo bubble-point pressures of different heavy crude oil−solvent systems, 2022, Petroleum
  • A Novel Multi-Phase Strategy for Optimizing CO2 Utilization and Storage in an Oil Reservoir, 2023, Energies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yongan Gu include Jiangyuan Yao, Wei Zou, Olusegun Ojumoola, Hongze Ma, and Meilong Fu.

The publishing venues commonly featuring Yongan Gu's work include:

  • Energies
  • Fuel
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Best Publications

  • Effects of asphaltene content on the heavy oil viscosity at different temperatures

    Peng Luo;Yongan Gu

  • Oil recovery mechanisms and asphaltene precipitation phenomenon in immiscible and miscible CO2 flooding processes

    Meng Cao;Yongan Gu

  • The ζ-Potential of Glass Surface in Contact with Aqueous Solutions

    Yongan Gu;Dongqing Li

  • Interfacial Tensions of the Crude Oil + Reservoir Brine + CO2 Systems at Pressures up to 31 MPa and Temperatures of 27 °C and 58 °C

    Daoyong Yang;and Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul;Yongan Gu

  • Measurements of Molecular Diffusion Coefficients of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Propane in Heavy Oil under Reservoir Conditions

    Asok Kumar Tharanivasan;Chaodong Yang;Yongan Gu

  • Diffusion coefficients and oil swelling factors of carbon dioxide, methane, ethane, propane, and their mixtures in heavy oil

    Chaodong Yang;Yongan Gu

  • Accelerated mass transfer of CO2 in reservoir brine due to density-driven natural convection at high pressures and elevated temperatures

    Chaodong Yang and;Yongan Gu

  • Oil Recovery and Permeability Reduction of a Tight Sandstone Reservoir in Immiscible and Miscible CO2 Flooding Processes

    Xiaoqi Wang;Yongan Gu

  • Comparison of three different interface mass transfer models used in the experimental measurement of solvent diffusivity in heavy oil

    Asok Kumar Tharanivasan;Chaodong Yang;Yongan Gu

  • Coalescence of oil-in-water emulsions in fibrous and granular beds

    Jingquan Li;Yongan Gu

  • Wettability Determination of the Reservoir Brine−Reservoir Rock System with Dissolution of CO2 at High Pressures and Elevated Temperatures

    Daoyong Yang;Yongan Gu;Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul

  • Evaluation of Polymers as Direct Thickeners for CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Shiyang Zhang;Yuehui She;Yongan Gu

  • Optimization of Miscible CO2 Water-Alternating-Gas Injection in the Bakken Formation

    Longyu Han;Yongan Gu

  • Mutual interactions between crude oil and CO2 under different pressures

    Morteza Nobakht;Samane Moghadam;Yongan Gu

  • Physicochemical Characterization of Produced Oils and Gases in Immiscible and Miscible CO2 Flooding Processes

    Meng Cao;Yongan Gu

  • Interfacial interactions between reservoir brine and CO2 at high pressures and elevated temperatures

    Daoyong Yang;and Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul;Yongan Gu

  • Application of a Novel Polymer System in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

    Wei Wang;Yuzhang Liu;Yongan Gu

  • Effects of Viscous and Capillary Forces on CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery under Reservoir Conditions

    Morteza Nobakht;Samane Moghadam;Yongan Gu

  • A New Method for Measuring Solvent Diffusivity in Heavy Oil by Dynamic Pendant Drop Shape Analysis (DPDSA)

    Chaodong Yang;Yongan Gu

  • Determination of CO2 Minimum Miscibility Pressure from Measured and Predicted Equilibrium Interfacial Tensions

    Morteza Nobakht;Samane Moghadam;Yongan Gu

Frequent Co-Authors

Dongqing Li
Dongqing Li University of Waterloo
Daoyong Yang
Daoyong Yang University of Regina
Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul
Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul University of Regina
Ibrahim M. Banat
Ibrahim M. Banat University of Ulster
Pio Conti
Pio Conti University of Chieti-Pescara
Indra Mani Mishra
Indra Mani Mishra Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Quan Shi
Quan Shi China University of Petroleum, Beijing

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