The existence of the bottom oil–water transition zone (BTZ) greatly impairs performance conventional steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) process and its mitigation measures are very limited. In order to accelerate oil production decrease Steam-to-Oil Ratio (SOR), a promising technology involving steam drive (SDGD) by placing dual-horizontal wells with high permeability in BTZ was systematica...

General constraints on geyser phenomena are developed and applied to speculative methane geysers on Titan. Variation of boiling point with depth of ethane–methane–nitrogen fluids is found to be of order 0.3 K m−1, in contrast with around 2 K m−1 for water on Earth. It is found that geysers are possible on Titan but require enhancements of ∼100 above global-average geothermal heat flux, a factor...

The boiler drum level control unit is one of the main parameter in the thermal power station. Currently the boiler drum parameters are monitored only by using MATLAB software. There is no automatic control available. In the proposed system the boiler drum parameters such as temperature level, pressure level, water level and Droplet identifier are measured and controlled by using embedded proces...