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Microfluidic Fabrication Techniques for High-Pressure Testing of Microscale Supercritical CO2 Foam Transport in Fractured Unconventional Reservoirs
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Study of percolation and clustering in supercritical water-CO2 mixtures

A Botti1, F Bruni, R Mancinelli

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica E. Amaldi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy.

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|May 2, 2008
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