A simulation study on hydrogel performance for enhanced oil recovery using phase-field method.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 02 2022
11 02 2022
Historique:
received:
07
11
2021
accepted:
28
01
2022
entrez:
12
2
2022
pubmed:
13
2
2022
medline:
13
2
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Hydrogels are increasingly applied in oil recovery processes. This leads to more controlled flow of fluids in porous media. In this process, hydrogel is injected to the reservoir to block the high permeability areas. The trapped oil in low permeability regions, is then swept by water flooding. pH-sensitive hydrogel microspheres were synthesized in another work of the authors, which effectively increased the oil recovery factor in experimental studies. In this communication, phase-field approach was used to simulate this process and to obtain the tuning parameters of the model including thickness of the contact surface (є), phase transform parameter (M
Identifiants
pubmed: 35149758
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-06388-0
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-06388-0
pmc: PMC8837784
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Journal Article
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eng
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