FOCUS AREAS
Our main focuses are: behaviour of soils and rocks under complex and extreme conditions involving coupled mechanical, hydraulic, thermal, and geochemical processes, recovery and characterization of existing and new energy resources, storage of energy in the subsurface in different forms and containment of carbon waste in engineered systems.
PUBLICATIONS
- Zhang XG, Ranjith PG, Ranathunga AS (2019). Sub-and super-critical carbon dioxide flow variations in large high-rank coal specimen: An experimental study. Energy, 181, 148-161.
- Ranathunga AS, Perera MSA, Ranjith PG (2019). A laboratory-scale numerical study of CO2 flow through coal under down-hole stress conditions: Application to CO2 storage. Geotechnical Journal, 7, 11-21.
- Zhang XG, Ranjith PG, Perera MSA, Haque A, Ranathunga AS (2019). The influence of CO2 saturation time on the coal gas flow: Fractured bituminous coal. Fuel, 240, 153-161.
- Ranathunga AS, Ranjith PG, Perera MSA, Zhang XG (2019). Suitability of Victorian brown coal for CO2 sequestration: An experimental overview on effect of moisture on CO2/CH4 exchange. 16th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (16ARC – 2019), Taipei, Taiwan, Paper ID - YMPG21.
- Zhang XG, Ranjith PG, Li DY, Perera MSA, Ranathunga, AS, Zhang BN (2018). CO2 enhanced flow characteristics of naturally-fractured bituminous coals with N2 injection at different reservoir depths. Journal of CO2 Utilization, 28, 393-402.
- Ranathunga AS, Perera MSA, Ranjith PG (2017). Evolution of Coal Permeability during Enhanced Methane Recovery by CO2 Sequestration, 8th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (ICSECM - 2017), Kandy, Sri Lanka, Paper ID – 89.