Current projects involve 2 PhD students and 12 post-doctoral researcher associates/fellows and include research in the fields of:

1. Rock-fluid Interactions - mineral dissolution
2. Phase behaviour of carbon dioxide and reservoir fluids (i.e., brines and hydrocarbons)
3. Interfacial properties of reservoir fluids and effects of confinement
4. Impurities in the CO₂ stream i) interfacial properties and ii) phase Behaviour
5. Transport properties, extending HTHP rheology, viscosity/density data
6. Molecular Equations of State (thermodynamic EoS modelling) - SAFT

7. Transport property models - VW viscosity

   Experimental Officer

   Dr Emmanuel Efika

   Researchers/Research Fellow

   Dr Branko Bijeljic
   Dr John Crawshaw
   Benaiah Anabaraonye - "Mineral reaction rates relevant to carbon sequestration in carbonate reservoirs"
   Dr Ruien Hu - "Rheology of Carbon Dioxide and Crude Oil Mixtures"
   Dr Andrew Haslam - "Molecular equations of state (thermodynamics and modelling)"
   Dr Lisa Joss - "Multi-scale imaging of gas sorption in microporous rocks
   Dr Srikanth Ravipati - "Molecular equations of state (thermodynamics and modelling)"
   Dr Mihaela Stevar - "Interfacial properties of CO2 - water/brine - mineral systems at reservoir conditions"
   Dr Yolanda Sanchez-Vicente "Phase equilibrium of non-aqueous systems"
   Dr Geraldine Torin Ollarves "Phase Equilibrium of non-aqueous systems"
   Dr Binh Thanh Nguyen- "Molecular equations of state and transport models for Qatar fluids"
   Dr Johann-Philipp Crusius - "prediction of viscosity of asymmetric mixtures using molecular dynamics"

   Postgraduate Students
   
   Takeshi Kurotori - "Hydrodynamic dispersion and heterogeneity during miscible and immiscible displacements "
   Ayo Rufai - "Reactive Transport and the Effects of Carbon Dioxide Injection into Fractured Systems: Micro-models"

   Former Researchers/Students

   Dr Saif Al Ghafri - "Hydrocarbon-CO2 phase behaviour / brine-CO2 densities"
   Dr Shane Cadogan - "Diffusion of CO₂ in Fluids Relevant to Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage"
   Claudio Calabrese - "Viscosity of mixtures relevant to carbon sequestration: CO2 in brines and hydrocarbons"
   Carolina Contreras-Quintanilla - Impurities in the CO2 stream (Phase behaviour)
   Dr Emily Chapman - "Microfluidic Visualisation and Analysis of Multiphase Flow Phenomena at the Pore Scale"
   Dr Florence Chow - "Interfacial properties of CO2/brine and the effects of impurities"
   Dr Simon Dufal - "Development and application of advanced thermodynamic molecular description of complex reservoir fluids containing carbon dioxide and brines"
   Dr Daniel Eriksen - "Molecular equations of state (thermodynamics and modelling"
   Dr Oussama Gharbi - "Fluid-rock interactions in carbonates: applications to CO₂ storage"
   Dr Rayane Hoballah - "Phase equilibrium of aqueous systems "
   Dr Shuxin Hou - "Water-CO2 phase behaviour"
   Dr Xuesong Li - "Interfacial properties of reservoir fluids and rocks"
   Dr Mark McBride - "Viscosity and density of aqueous fluids with dissolved CO₂
   Dr Cheng Peng - "Chemical Interactions Between CO₂ Acidified Aqueous Fluids and Carbonate Minerals"
   Dr Nico Riesco - Transport Properties PredictionDr Catinca Secuiana - "Interfacial properties of CO₂ - water/brine - mineral systems at reservoir conditions"
   Dr Rudolf Umla - "The Enskog-2 model, a new viscosity model for simple fluids and alkanes"

Previous work incorporated the early stages of Project 4 prior to "Digital Rocks" becoming a major component of the programme. 
A full list of publications related to this project are available here.