InterPore2022: Abstract Submission and More

Abstract submission is open!

Abstract submission for InterPore2022 is open! Abstracts can be submitted for oral and poster presentations to be offered in-person or online in 24 minisymposia. The submission deadline is Monday, 03 January 2022.

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Abu Dhabi

Usual preparations for the annual InterPore conference take up to a full year. Hence, much appreciation goes to the local organization committee whom will undoubtedly make InterPore2022 a fantastic event. For those who will be travelling to Abu Dhabi, we have put together some highlights of the city here.

Invited speaker:

Stephan Matthai from The University of Melbourne will present a talk entitled Modelling & Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Highly Heterogeneous Geologic Porous Media.

Stephan Matthai is a Professor in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at Melbourne University and reservoir engineer in the Peter Cook Centre for CCS research and ANLEC R&D, Australia. Until 2015, he directed the Institute of Reservoir Engineering at the Montanuniversitaet Leoben (MUL), Austria, and, from 2001 to 2009, was a Governors’ Lecturer at Imperial College London, where he ran an industry consortium on multiphase flow in naturally fractured reservoirs.

His presentation explores complex emergent behaviour that arises from the interplay of geoheterogeneity with multiphase flow. Sophisticated digital outcrop models resolving geologic features across multiple length scales are used to constrain digital twins of the real world, offering the unique opportunity to investigate system behaviour in response to engineering interventions and reveal side effects. Of particular interest are the performance analysis and optimisation of multiphase flow systems such as CO2 geo-sequestration complexes, geothermal reservoirs, and gas storage sites.

The rich behavioural dynamics of geologic porous media saturated with brine and CO2 will be illustrated with results of hybrid FEM-FVM computations expressing jump discontinuities during simulation.

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Minisymposia Spotlight

In the interdisciplinary spirit from which the InterPore society was born, the minisymposiaprovide a forum where investigators and technicians from disparate fields can come together and display their commonality of problems, investigatory techniques and solution strategies.

Spotlight image credit: OpenClipArt-Vectors

(MS01) Porous Media for a Green World: Energy & Climate

• Lauren Beckingham – Auburn University, USA
• Maartje Boon – TU Delft, Netherlands
• Brian Ellis – University of Michigan, USA
• Anna Herring – Australian National University, Australia
• William Rossen – TU Delft, Netherlands
• Eleni Stavropoulou – EPFL, Switzerland

Porous media science and engineering has played an important historical role in the development of the current global energy system. While renewables such as wind and solar will play a major role in the energy transition, creative uses of natural and engineered porous media will also be a critical part of any viable low carbon energy system. Because fossil fuels will form a significant part of the foreseeable future energy mix, CO2 capture and subsequent subsurface storage must play a major role in both direct carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) projects and in negative emissions scenarios like Bio-Energy with CCS…read more

(MS02) Porous Media for a Green World: Water & Agriculture

• Li Chen – Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
• Amirhossein Hassani – NILU, Norway
• Steven Jansen – Ulm University, Germany
• Nima Shokri – Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany
• Jan Vanderborght – Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Jun Yin – Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Sustainable use of soil and water resources is crucial to preserve healthy terrestrial ecosystems and maintaining food security. Many of the scientific and technical challenges related to these issues hinge on understanding, controlling and optimizing processes that involve the multiscale (in both space and time) dynamics of water and nutrients in the soil-plant system, arguably the porous medium ‘par excellence’. With this theme in mind, this mini-symposium aims to bring together contributions on the physics, chemistry and biology of porous media…read more

Call for Exhibitors & Sponsors

We are finalizing the detailed prospectus for potential exhibitors and sponsors at InterPore2022 and will be sending it out to our existing industry connections soon. Do you know of a company who should be on our list? Let us know! Perhaps it’s one you regularly work with, one you’d like to work with, or maybe one you work for! We’d love to hear your ideas. Email us with the organization name and contact information.