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Yongkoo Seol is affiliated with the National Energy Technology Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of environmental chemistry, mechanics of materials, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and atmospheric science.

Their scholarly work concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Reservoir engineering and simulation methods

Seol has published extensively in various academic journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment
  • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Seol are:

  • "An international code comparison study on coupled thermal, hydrologic and geomechanical processes of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments" (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • "Pore-Scale Investigation Of Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments Under Triaxial Condition" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Load-bearing characteristic of methane hydrate within coarse-grained sediments - Insights from isotropic consolidation" (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • "Automated Well-Log Processing and Lithology Classification by Identifying Optimal Features Through Unsupervised and Supervised Machine-Learning Algorithms" (2020, SPE Journal)
  • "Pressure coring a Gulf of Mexico deep-water turbidite gas hydrate reservoir: Initial results from The University of Texas-Gulf of Mexico 2-1 (UT-GOM2-1) Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition" (2020, AAPG Bulletin)

Frequent collaborators of Seol include:

  • Evgeniy M. Myshakin
  • Liang Lei
  • Sheng Dai
  • Ray Boswell
  • Jeong-Hoon Choi

The scientist's work encompasses investigations into the mechanical behavior of methane hydrates in sediments, advances in reservoir analysis techniques, as well as environmental gas dynamics and the implications of CO2 sequestration. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates laboratory experiments, field studies, and computational modeling to address complex energy and environmental challenges.

Best Publications

  • Methane hydrate formation and dissociation in a partially saturated core-scale sand sample

    Timothy J. Kneafsey;Liviu Tomutsa;George J. Moridis;Yongkoo Seol

  • Water permeability in hydrate-bearing sediments: A pore-scale study

    Sheng Dai;Yongkoo Seol

  • Pore habit of methane hydrate and its evolution in sediment matrix – Laboratory visualization with phase-contrast micro-CT

    Liang Lei;Yongkoo Seol;Jeong-Hoon Choi;Jeong-Hoon Choi;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • Increasing Gas Hydrate Formation Temperature for Desalination of High Salinity Produced Water with Secondary Guests

    Jong-Ho Cha;Yongkoo Seol

  • Evaluation of the Gas Production Potential of Marine Hydrate Deposits in the Ulleung Basin of the Korean East Sea

    George J. Moridis;Matthew T. Reagan;Se-Joon Kim;Yongkoo Seol

  • The water retention curve and relative permeability for gas production from hydrate‐bearing sediments: pore‐network model simulation

    Nariman Mahabadi;Sheng Dai;Yongkoo Seol;Tae Sup Yun

  • Impact of hydrate saturation on water permeability in hydrate-bearing sediments

    Nariman Mahabadi;Sheng Dai;Yongkoo Seol;Jaewon Jang

  • Permeability of Laboratory-Formed Methane-Hydrate-Bearing Sand: Measurements and Observations Using X-Ray Computed Tomography

    Timothy J. Kneafsey;Yongkoo Seol;Arvind Gupta;Liviu Tomutsa

  • Studies of Reaction Kinetics of Methane Hydrate Dissocation in Porous Media

    George J. Moridis;Yongkoo Seol;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • Pore-Scale Visualization of Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments With Micro-CT

    Liang Lei;Yongkoo Seol;Karl Jarvis

  • An international code comparison study on coupled thermal, hydrologic and geomechanical processes of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments

    M.D. White;T.J. Kneafsey;Y. Seol;W.F. Waite

  • Destruction Efficiencies and Dynamics of Reaction Fronts Associated with the Permanganate Oxidation of Trichloroethylene

    Eung Seok Lee;Yongkoo Seol;Y C Fang;Franklin W Schwartz

  • Numerical simulations of depressurization-induced gas production from an interbedded turbidite gas hydrate-bearing sedimentary section in the offshore India: Site NGHP-02-16 (Area-B)

    Evgeniy M. Myshakin;Evgeniy M. Myshakin;Yongkoo Seol;Jeen-Shang Lin;Jeen-Shang Lin;Shun Uchida;Shun Uchida

  • Multistage Triaxial Tests on Laboratory-Formed Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments

    Jeong‐Hoon Choi;Jeong‐Hoon Choi;Sheng Dai;Sheng Dai;Jeen‐Shang Lin;Jeen‐Shang Lin;Yongkoo Seol

  • Composite thermal conductivity in a large heterogeneous porous methane hydrate sample.

    Arvind Gupta;Timothy J. Kneafsey;George J. Moridis;Yongkoo Seol

  • Experimental and Numerical Observations of Hydrate Reformation during Depressurization in a Core-Scale Reactor

    Yongkoo Seol;Evgeniy Myshakin

  • A Review of In Situ Chemical Oxidation and Heterogeneity

    Yongkoo Seol;Hubao Zhang;Frank W. Schwartz

  • X-ray computed-tomography observations of water flow through anisotropic methane hydrate-bearing sand

    Yongkoo Seol;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • India National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 summary of scientific results: Numerical simulation of reservoir response to depressurization

    Ray Boswell;Evgeniy Myshakin;Evgeniy Myshakin;George Moridis;George Moridis;Yoshihiro Konno

  • Methane hydrate induced permeability modification for multiphase flow in unsaturated porous media

    Yongkoo Seol;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • Laboratory formation of noncementing hydrates in sandy sediments

    Jeong-Hoon Choi;Sheng Dai;Jong-Ho Cha;Yongkoo Seol

  • Effect of Dissolved Organic Matter in Treated Effluents on Sorption of Atrazine and Prometryn by Soils

    Yongkoo Seol;Linda S. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Kneafsey
Timothy J. Kneafsey Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
George J. Moridis
George J. Moridis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ray Boswell
Ray Boswell United States Department of Energy
Barry Freifeld
Barry Freifeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Timothy S. Collett
Timothy S. Collett United States Geological Survey
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hui-Hai Liu
Hui-Hai Liu Saudi Aramco (United States)
Franklin W. Schwartz
Franklin W. Schwartz The Ohio State University
Stephan A. Graham
Stephan A. Graham Stanford University
Yu-Shu Wu
Yu-Shu Wu Colorado School of Mines

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