Grant Charles Mwakipunda

ORCID: 0000-0003-3446-827X
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Research Areas
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Coal Properties and Utilization
  • Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
  • Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems
  • Adsorption and Cooling Systems
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Petroleum Processing and Analysis
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Statistical and Computational Modeling
  • Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics
  • Sports Performance and Training
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems

China University of Geosciences
2021-2025

Many researchers have investigated the potential of methane hydrate reservoirs (MHRs) for carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration and (CH4) production through CO2–CH4 replacement method. This technique is not yet commercially implemented due to various limitations, especially economic reasons. study recent advancements in MHRs potentiality CO2 or mixed gas exchange injection while recovering CH4. From experiments, modeling, simulations, one pilot test conducted, it was found that there a great...

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c01510 article EN Energy & Fuels 2023-07-14

CO2-enhanced coalbed methane (CO2-ECBM) technology helps to store CO2 while producing a clean source of energy (CH4) through the sorption process. This technique can sequester much at low temperatures and pressures recovering CH4, which will help offset associated costs, such as capturing injection gases, drilling completion infrastructure, compression, expenses. review paper critically analyzes sequestration potentiality in deep unmineable coal seams. The results revealed that, despite...

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c03004 article EN Energy & Fuels 2023-10-25

Abstract The saline aquifer is the most reliable place where anthropogenic carbon dioxide gas storage has shown a promising future. This paper evaluates and predicts capacities of different trapping mechanisms in storing low porosity permeability deep aquifers by using commercial reservoir simulator software i.e., Computer modeling group (CMG). Four modeled simulated were structural or stratigraphic mechanisms, residual solubility mineral mechanisms. Carbon was injected into for 15 years,...

10.1115/1.4056612 article EN Journal of Energy Resources Technology 2023-01-04

Summary Accurate prediction of carbon dioxide (CO2) solubility in brine is crucial for the success capture and storage (CCS) by means geological formations like aquifers. This study investigates effectiveness a novel genetic algorithm-mixed effects random forest (GA-MERF) model estimating CO2 brine. The model’s performance compared with established methods group method data handling (GMDH), backpropagation neural networks (BPNN), traditional thermodynamic models. GA-MERF utilizes...

10.2118/223123-pa article EN SPE Journal 2024-09-20

Carbon capture and storage has been identified as an important viable technology for climate change mitigation. The allows CO2 generated from large-scale sources, such power plants other heavy industries, to be captured stored in deep geological formations. However, when is formations, there are possibilities of formation damage, which may reduce injectivity capacity. In this study, damage during injection reviewed through different experimental studies. study shown that the interaction...

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c00427 article EN Energy & Fuels 2023-04-24

Summary Many methods have been developed to determine the solution gas/oil ratio (Rs), starting with experiments, followed by empirical correlations establishments, and recently machine learning applications receiving much interest due their ability produce precise results compared correlations. In this paper, group method of data handling (GMDH) enhanced GMDH based on discrete differential evolution (GMDH-DDE) are used for first time estimate Rs provide a correlation laboratory measured...

10.2118/217979-pa article EN SPE Journal 2023-10-16

The growing global demand for energy is driving specialists to reevaluate and exploit fossil fuel deposits previously considered economically unviable. This study addresses the challenge of evaluating Mengo shaly sandstone reservoir, a fan that affected by diagenesis has heterogeneous porosity low permeability was abandoned due its poor petrophysical properties, in Kouilou Basin, Republic Congo, particularly impact clay minerals on reservoir quality. significance this lies addressing complex...

10.1021/acsomega.4c08491 article EN cc-by-nc-nd ACS Omega 2025-03-06

Summary Accurate prediction of porosity and permeability in fractured vuggy carbonate reservoirs is crucial for optimizing hydrocarbon recovery but remains challenging due to their extreme heterogeneity anisotropy. Traditional methods often struggle capture the complex geological variability, leading suboptimal reservoir characterization. To address this, we propose a novel hybrid machine learning (ML) framework that integrates particle swarm optimization (PSO), mixed-effects random forest...

10.2118/226198-pa article EN SPE Journal 2025-04-01

Formation damage has the potential to impair and weaken reservoir productivity injectivity, causing substantial economic losses. Oil gas wells can be damaged by various mechanisms, such as solid invasion, rock–fluid incompatibilities, fluid–fluid phase trapping/blocking, which reduce natural permeability of oil near wellbore zone. These happen during most field operations, including drilling completion, production, stimulation, enhanced recovery (EOR). Numerous studies have been undertaken...

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c03223 article EN Energy & Fuels 2021-12-27
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