◎Research Interests Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Characterization of Phase Behavior of Complex Reservoir Fluids Reservoir Simulation Unconventional Oil and Gas Development
◎Research Projects 1. Phase Behavior of Reservoir Fluids and Enhanced Oil Recovery, Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Principal Investigator 2. Probing the Effects of Polymer Flocculants on the Treatment of Oil Sands Mature Fine Tailings, Government of Canada Science and Technology Program, Principal Investigator; 3. Optimizing Polymer Flocculation for Enhanced Dewatering of Oil Sands Tailings: A Multiscale Investigation, Government of Canada Science and Technology Program, Principal Investigator; 4. Critical Phase Behavior Modeling for Colloids + Solvent + Non-Adsorbing Polymer Mixtures Exhibiting Depletion Interaction and Re-Stabilization, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Co-Investigator; 5. Robust and Accurate Equation of State Framework for Modeling Phase Behavior of Reservoir Fluids under Extreme Pressure/Temperature Conditions, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Co-Investigator; 6. Probing and Modulating Interactions of Drops, Bubbles and Particles with implications for Chemical Engineering Processes, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Co-Investigator; 7. Fouling and Underlying Interfacial Mechanisms for Steam-assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Operation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Co-Investigator.
◎Paper And Publications 1. Zhuo Chen; Ruixue Li; Yifei Du; Xiaozhen Wang; Xin Zhang; Hong Yang; Jialin Shi; Minimum miscibility pressure determination considering three-hydrocarbon-phase displacements for CCUS applications in tight/shale formations, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2026, 286; 2. Zhuo Chen; Qi Wang; Jing Zhang; Sirui Li; Ying Zhou; Ruixue Li; Liangliang Jiang; Huazhou Li; Effect of water presence on asphaltene-precipitation behavior of CO2 and crude oil mixtures during CCUS processes, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2025, 260: 124876; 3. Zhuo Chen; Jiahui Chen; Xin Zhang; A comprehensive review of minimum miscibility pressure determination and reduction strategies between CO2 and crude oil in CCUS processes, Fuel, 2025, 384: 134053; 4. Zhuo Chen; Ruixue Li; Yifei Du; Shunting Ma; Xin Zhang; Jialin Shi; Effect of confinement on the vapor-liquid-liquid three-phase equilibrium during CO2 utilization and sequestration in shale reservoirs, Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 2025, 16(3): 199; 5. Zhuo Chen; Jialin Shi; Ying Zhou; Ruixue Li; Huazhou Li; Efficient tracking of Vapor- Liquid-Aqueous-Equilibrium/ Liquid-Liquid-Aqueous-Equilibrium (VLAE/LLAE) phase boundaries, Chemical Engineering Science, 2024, 292; 6. Zhuo Chen; Ruixue Li; Shuaijie Yang; Yuanwei Qin; Liang Gong; Daoliang Zhang; A novel algorithm for asphaltene precipitation modeling in shale reservoirs with the consideration of capillary pressure during the CCUS processes, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024, 248. 7. Zhuo Chen; Lingfei Xu; Ying Zhou; Ruixue Li; Huazhou Li; A robust and efficient algorithm for vapor-liquid-equilibrium/liquid-liquid-equilibrium (VLE/LLE) phase boundary tracking, Chemical Engineering Science, 2023, 266: 118286; 8. Zhuo Chen; Ying Zhou; Huazhou Li; A review of phase behavior mechanisms of CO2 EOR and storage in subsurface formations, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2022, 61(29):10298-10318; 9. Zhuo Chen; Ruixue Li; Huazhou Li; A new vapor-liquid-asphaltene three-phase equilibrium computation algorithm based on the free-asphaltene assumption, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2022, 556:113392; 10. Zhuo Chen; Ruixue Li; Huazhou Li; An improved vapor-liquid-asphaltene three-phase equilibrium computation algorithm, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2021, 537: 113004; 11. Hailong Chen; Zhuo Chen*; Bing Wei; Qi Jiang; A novel approach for quantitative characterization of aqueous in-situ foam dynamic structure based on fractal theory, Fuel, 2023, 352: 129149; 12. Ke Hu; Zheng Wang; Fei Wang; Yu Pang; Lixing Lin; Zhuo Chen*; Jialin Shi; Fractal analysis of the pore structure of marine shale in the Sichuan Basin, Energy & Fuels, 2025, 39(30): 14572-14588.
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