Monday, January 1, 2024

Welcome

This web site is a public repository of my professional interests. This currently consists of a list of publications.

I am the CTO at ResFrac Corporation. We make a cloud-based integrated hydrualic-fracture-and-reservoir simulator for the petroleum and geothermal industries. In addition to licensing the simulator to operators and service companies, we provide professional services based on using the simulator to conduct hydraulic fracturing and reservoir studies. We publish a fair amount, often in connection to our services work, and in the two industry studies we organized previously on parent-child interactions (2021-2022) and diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) analysis (2019). 

I lived in China in 2015-2016 while working for a U.S. oil and gas data services company. During my time there, I kept a personal blog.
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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Scholarly contributions of Charles A. Kang

This post lists my scholarly contributions. Where allowed by copyright law, I have provided links to full texts. Two alternative ways of getting these lists are Google Scholar (no full texts) and ResearchGate (requires registration).

I had previously hosted a version of this list on my university web site, but my account expired after I graduated.

Journal papers (peer-reviewed)
  1. Brandt, AR, Teichgraeber, H, Kang, CA, Barnhart, CJ, Carbajales-Dale, MA, Sgouridis, S. 2021. Blow wind blow: Capital deployment in variable energy systems. Energy, 224(2021):120198. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2021.120198 [paper preprint pdf, 991 KB]
  2. Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ, Jayaweera, I. 2016. Assessment of advanced solvent-based post-combustion CO2 capture processes using a bi-objective optimization technique. Applied Energy, 179(2016):1209-1219. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.07.062 [paper preprint pdf, 4,176 kB]
  3. Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ. 2016. A new carbon capture proxy model for optimizing the design and time-varying operation of a coal-natural gas power station. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 48(2016):234-252. doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.11.023 [paper preprint pdf, 6,297 kB] [supplementary material pdf, 1,146 kB]
  4. Brodrick, PG, Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ. 2015. Optimization of carbon-capture-enabled coal-gas-solar power generation. Energy, 79(2015):149-162. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2014.11.003 [paper preprint pdf, 2,723 kB]
  5. Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ. 2014. Optimizing heat integration in a flexible coal-natural gas power station with CO2 capture. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 31(2014):138-152. doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2014.09.019 [paper preprint pdf, 2,341 kB] [supplementary material pdf, 721 kB]
  6. Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ. 2011. Optimal operation of an integrated energy system including fossil fuel power generation, CO2 capture and wind. Energy, 36(12):6806-6820. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2011.10.015 [paper preprint pdf, 950 kB]
Conference papers
  1. Kang, CA, McClure, MW, Reddy, S, Naidenova, M, Tyankov, Z. 2022. Optimizing shale economics with an integrated hydraulic fracturing and reservoir simulator and a Bayesian automated history matching and optimization algorithm. SPE-209169-MS. Presented at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, February 2022. doi:10.2118/209169-MS [paper under restrictive copyright -- e-mail me for a copy]
  2. McClure, M, Kang, C, Fowler, G. 2022. Optimization and design of next-generation geothermal systems created by multistage hydraulic fracturing. SPE-209186-MS. Presented at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, February 2022. doi:10.2118/209186-MS [paper under restrictive copyright -- e-mail me for a copy]
  3. McClure, M, Picone, M, Fowler, G, Ratcliff, D, Kang, C, Medam, S, Frantz, J. 2020. Nuances and frequently asked questions in field-scale hydraulic fracture modeling. SPE-199726-MS. Presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, February 4-6, 2020. doi:10.2118/199726-MS
  4. McClure, MW, Kang, CA. 2018. Applying a combined hydraulic fracturing, reservoir, and wellbore simulator: Staged Field Experiment# 3, cluster spacing, and stacked parent/child frac hits. SPE-190049-MS. Presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Western Regional Meeting, Garden Grove, California, USA, April 22-26, 2018. doi:10.2118/190049-MS [paper under restrictive copyright -- e-mail me for a copy]
  5. McClure, MW, Kang, CA. 2017. A three-dimensional reservoir, wellbore, and hydraulic fracturing simulator that is compositional and thermal, tracks proppant and water solute transport, includes non-Darcy and non-Newtonian flow, and handles fracture closure. SPE-182593-MS. Presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Simulation Conference, Montgomery, Texas, USA, February 20-22, 2017. doi:10.2118/182593-MS [paper under restrictive copyright -- e-mail me for a copy]
  6. Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ. 2013. Optimal heat integration in a coal-natural gas energy park with CO2 capture. Energy Procedia, 37(2013):2715-2726. Presented at the 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-11), Kyoto, Japan, November 18-22, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.156 [paper preprint pdf, 846 kB] [poster pdf, 2,534 kB]
  7. Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ. 2012. Impact of CO2 emissions policy and system configuration on optimal operation of an integrated fossil-renewable energy park. CMTC paper 151446. Presented at the Carbon Management Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 7-9, 2012. doi:10.7122/151446-MS [paper under restrictive copyright -- e-mail me for a copy] [slides pdf, 2,157 kB]
Technical writeups
  1. Kang, C, McClure, M, Reddy, S. 2021. Description of ResFrac automated history matching and optimization workflow. Contents overlap with Kang, McClure, Reddy, Naidenova, Tyankov  (2022). arXiv:2111.13264
  2. McClure M, Kang C, Medam S, Hewson C, Dontsov, E. 2018-2022. ResFrac Technical Writeup. arXiv:1804.02092
Major conference presentations (no paper)
  1. Brodrick, PG, Kang, CA, Brandt, AR, Durlofsky, LJ. 2013. Optimal design and operation of integrated energy systems incorporating CO2 capture, with application to coal-gas and coal-gas-solar thermal configurations. Abstract #306617. Poster presented at the Carbon Management Technology Conference (CMTC 2013), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, October 21-23, 2013. URL: http://www3.aiche.org/proceedings/Abstract.aspx?PaperID=306617
  2. Nightingale, RW, Frank, ZA, Metcalf, TR, Kang, CA. TRACE and SOHO/MDI observations of five X-flares from AR10720, the "Fireworks Active Region", on January 15-20, 2005. Abstract #SP21A-10. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting 2005, San Francisco, California, USA, January 15-20, 2005. URL: http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2005AGUSMSP21A..10N
Theses
  1. Kang, CA. 2015. Computational Optimization of Design and Variable Operation of CO2-Capture-Enabled Coal-Natural Gas Power Plants. PhD Thesis. Readers: Sally Benson, Adam Brandt, Lou Durlofsky. URL: https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/pereports/record_detail.php?filename=Kang2015.pdf
    Contents largely overlap with Kang, Brandt, Durlofsky (2014, 2016) and Kang, Brandt, Durlofsky, Jayweera (2016).
  2. Kang, CA. 2011. Optimal Operation of an Integrated Energy Park Including Fossil Fuel Power Generation, CO2 Capture and Wind. MS Thesis. Readers: Adam Brandt, Lou Durlofsky. URL: https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/pereports/record_detail.php?filename=Kang2011.pdf
    Contents overlap with Kang, Brandt, Durlofsky (2011).
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