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SUBMITTER: Lai CY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6094105 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lai Ching-Yao CY Rallabandi Bhargav B Perazzo Antonio A Zheng Zhong Z Smiddy Samuel E SE Stone Howard A HA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180726 32
In hydraulic fracturing, water is injected at high pressure to crack shale formations. More sustainable techniques use aqueous foams as injection fluids to reduce the water use and wastewater treatment of conventional hydrofractures. However, the physical mechanism of foam fracturing remains poorly understood, and this lack of understanding extends to other applications of compressible foams such as fire-fighting, energy storage, and enhanced oil recovery. Here we show that the injection of foam ...[more]