Flow, dispersion and displacement processes in porous media and enhanced recovery of oil

Conference · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5586529

Sahimi, M ^[1]

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1. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US)

The authors discuss various phenomena that are associated with enhanced recovery of oil. These include the flow of two or three immiscible phases in porous media, hydrodynamic dispersion in one and two phase flow in porous media, and miscible displacement processes and the associated hydrodynamic stability problem of such processes in porous media. The authors show that a unified approach to all these problems can be developed. The authors present a method for simulating miscible displacement processes which takes into account the effect of viscosity contrast, dispersion and permeability heterogeneities. The implications for enhanced recovery of oil are discussed.

• OSTI ID: 5586529
• Report Number(s): CONF-881143--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
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DISPERSIONS
DISPLACEMENT FLUIDS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENHANCED RECOVERY
FLUID FLOW
FLUID MECHANICS
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HYDRODYNAMICS
MATERIALS
MECHANICS
PERMEABILITY
PETROLEUM
POROUS MATERIALS
RECOVERY
RESERVOIR ROCK
TWO-PHASE FLOW
VISCOSITY