The most common data that engineers can count on, especially in mature fields, is production rate data. Practical methods for production data analysis (PDA) have come a long way since their introduction several decades ago and fall into two categories: decline curve analysis (DCA) and type curve matching (TCM). DCA is independent of any reservoir characteristics, and TCM is a subjective procedu...

gas injection into heavy oil reservoirs could result in high ultimate recovery of oil. experimental studies showed that an application of a combined technology of gas assisted gravity drainage (gagd) and vapor extraction (vapex) could increase final oil recovery of a candidate viscous oil reservoir. in this paper the results of laboratory investigation are presented, including pressure-volume-t...

Intermittent positive pressure respiration (IPPR) is best accomplished with a completely closed system during the inspiratory phase, so that all gas squeezed out of the reservoir bag will go to the patient's lungs. Under these conditions ventilation is volume-controlled. A low pressure in the system during the expiratory and resting phases will have least adverse effect on the patient; however,...

Traditional methods of coal seam gas drainage rely on the use of reservoir pressure reduction to promote gas desorption from the coal matrix. Studies in coal mining gas drainage operations, particularly in coal seams that are deeply undersaturated and have low permeability, found the rate of reservoir pressure reduction was prohibitively slow. In such conditions, lengthy production delays have ...

Gas injection into heavy oil reservoirs could result in high ultimate recovery of oil. Experimental studies showed that an application of a combined technology of Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) and Vapor Extraction (VAPEX) could increase final oil recovery of a candidate viscous oil reservoir. In this paper the results of laboratory investigation are presented, including Pressure-Volu...

Previous studies based on measurements made in the ascending aorta have demonstrated that it can be useful to separate the arterial pressure P into a reservoir pressure P* generated by the windkessel effect and a wave pressure p generated by the arterial waves: P = P*+p. The separation in these studies was relatively straightforward since the flow into the arterial system was measured. In this ...

The (well-known) quantum mechanical expression for the stress tensor is derived and applied to obtain a formula for the pressure in the average-atom model. This average-atom pressure formula reduces to the (well-known) expression for the pressure in a classical free-electron gas when the average-atom continuum wave functions are replaced by free-electron wave functions. 1 Derivation We start wi...

Ayre's T-piece. The Ayre's T-piece (Ayre, 1937) has a very low resistance, is simple, and almost trouble-free. Intermittent positive pressure respiration (IPPR) can be induced by occluding the exhalation reservoir tube intermittently with one finger. However, the pressure, volume, and riming of lung inflation depends on the flow of gases from the anaesthetic machine and the duration of finger o...