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Title: Experiments on bypassing during gasfloods in heterogeneous porous media

Journal Article · · SPE Reservoir Engineering
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2118/28626-PA· OSTI ID:227840

Mass transfer from a bypassed region to a flowing region is a very strong function of the solvent phase behavior. Diffusion, dispersion, and capillarity-driven crossflow can contribute to this mass transfer in addition to pressure- and buoyancy-driven crossflow. The authors experiments indicated that the mass transfer rate increased with enrichment. Liquid phase diffusion played a significant role and capillary pumping did not contribute to mass transfer in the cases studied.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
227840
Journal Information:
SPE Reservoir Engineering, Vol. 11, Issue 2; Other Information: DN: Paper presented at the 1994 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, LA (US), September 25--28; PBD: May 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English