Hot-solvent miscible displacement

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980 · Annu Petrol Soc of Cim Tech Mtg; ()

OSTI ID:5661742

Awang, M; Farouq Ali, S M

This work describes an experimental and theoretical investigation of miscible displacement under nonisothermal conditions. The hot miscible floods were performed in an adiabatic glass bead pack, displacing one hydrocarbon by a more viscous hydrocarbon, the latter being at an elevated temperature. As a result, dispersion of both mass and heat took place, and was determined by temperature and concentration measurements. The system was simulated by coupled convective-diffusion and thermal conduction-convection equations. The results of the numerical as well as an approximate analytical solution were compared with the experimentally observed behavior. The numerical and experimental results point to the factors which should be considered in the choice of a solvent for a thermal-miscible type oil recovery process.

• OSTI ID: 5661742
• Report Number(s): CONF-8005221-
• Journal Information: Annu Petrol Soc of Cim Tech Mtg; (), Vol. 80-31-29; Conference: 31. annual technical meeting of the Petroleum Society of CIM, Calgary, Canada, 25 May 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
MISCIBLE-PHASE DISPLACEMENT
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
OIL WELLS
PETROLEUM
THERMAL RECOVERY
FLOW MODELS
HEAT TRANSFER
MASS TRANSFER
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
SIMULATION
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY TRANSFER
ENHANCED RECOVERY
FLUID INJECTION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
RECOVERY
WELLS
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