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BIOSLURP - multiphase hydrocarbon vacuum enhanced recovery (bioslurping) and transport model
BIOSLURP Categories: bioremediation, fractured systems models, flow models
- saturated zone, flow models - unsaturated zone, vapor transport
BIOSLURP Overview
BIOSLURP is an areal finite-element model to simulate three-phase (water, oil and
gas) flow and multicomponent transport in ground water in the unsaturated zone gas phase. Currently the most advanced model of its kind, BIOSLURP can be used to optimize the recovery of LNAPL, water, and gas by
minimizing NAPL entrapment in the saturated/unsaturated zones, and simultaneously simulate multispecies aqueous and gas phase transport in unconfined aquifers. BIOSLURP can also simulate coupled flow of water and
LNAPL with a static atmospheric gas phase, as well as the transport in ground water. BIOSLURP simulates heterogeneous, anisotropic porous media or fractured media. It allows use of isoparametric elements to
accurately represent material and physical/hydraulic boundaries. BIOSLURP can be used to design NAPL recovery and hydraulic containment systems for the free phase hydrocarbon plume and dissolved phase plume under
complex hydrogeological conditions. Bioslurping (vacuum enhanced recovery) increases gradients in water and oil potentials with minimal fluctuations in the fluid tables and thus helps to reduce volume of residual
product and enhance free product recovery.
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