Nino Ripepi

About

Nino Ripepi is an associate professor and deputy director at Virginia Tech's Mining and Minerals Engineering department. His research focuses on coalbed methane and shale gas production, enhanced production from carbon sequestration, environmental and health & safety issues related to mining. He is involved in courses such as Underground Mine Design, Health, Safety and Risk Management, and Energy, Resources, Development and the Environment. Dr. Ripepi earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2009 and his B.S. from Virginia Tech in 1999. His professional activities include leadership in mining engineering education and research, with a particular emphasis on safety, environmental impact, and resource development.

Research topics

• Geology
• Geotechnical engineering
• Materials science
• Mining engineering
• Engineering
• Composite material
• Chemistry
• Mechanics
• Soil science
• Petroleum engineering

Selected publications

• Using pressure pulse decay experiments and a novel multi-physics shale transport model to study the role of Klinkenberg effect and effective stress on the apparent permeability of shales

  Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering · 2020 · 45 citations

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Kerogen nanoscale structure and CO2 adsorption in shale micropores

  Scientific Reports · 2021 · 39 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Gas storage and recovery processes in shales critically depend on nano-scale porosity and chemical composition, but information about the nanoscale pore geometry and connectivity of kerogen, insoluble organic shale matter, is largely unavailable. Using adsorption microcalorimetry, we show that once strong adsorption sites within nanoscale network are taken, gas adsorption even at very low pressure is governed by pore width rather than chemical composition. A combination of focused ion beam with…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Investigation of the conductivity of a proppant mixture using an experiment/simulation-integrated approach

  Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering · 2020 · 33 citations

  PublisherDOI

• Experimental investigation of non-monotonic fracture conductivity evolution in energy georeservoirs

  Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering · 2022-01-05 · 16 citations

  article
  PublisherDOI

• Experimental and Numerical Characterization of Lower Huron Shale as a Heterogeneous Material

  Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering · 2021-05-28 · 14 citations

  article
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Xu Tang

  16 shared

• Ming Fan

  10 shared

• Juan J. Monsalve

  Virginia Tech

  9 shared

• Ellen Gilliland

  8 shared

• Erik Westman

  Virginia Tech

  7 shared

• Aman Soni

  Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune

  7 shared

• Michael Karmis

  7 shared

• James E. McClure

  6 shared

Similar researchers at Virginia Tech

• Richard Bishoph-47
• Wencai Zhangh-32