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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Visualization in micromodels of Oil displacement by O/W emulsions
Submission Author:
Gabriel Barrocas de Oliveira Cruz , RJ
Co-Authors:
Jorge Antonio Avendaño Benavides, Marcio CARVALHO, Gabriel Barrocas de Oliveira Cruz
Presenter: Gabriel Barrocas de Oliveira Cruz
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-2726
Abstract
Water injection, the most common secondary recovery method in the oil industry, tend to have high residual oil saturation due to the low sweep efficiency of the water because of the formation of preferential paths. To accomplish a better oil recovery different approaches have been used, one of them consist in altering the paths formed by flooding, this can be done with the blockage of the pores, forcing the water to new paths, thus sweeping a bigger area of the reservoir and displacing more trapped oil. In order to test the effectiveness of this blockage, the injection of different droplet sizes of conventional O/W emulsions in micromodels is being studied and compared to the waterflooding in terms of residual oil saturation.
Keywords
Microfluidics, Immiscible Displacement, Waterflooding, Emulsion Flooding
