Flow in porous media, phase behavior and ultralow interfacial tensions: mechanisms of enhanced petroleum recovery. Final technical report
A major program of university research, longer-ranged and more fundamental in approach than industrial research, into basic mechanisms of enhancing petroleum recovery and into underlying physics, chemistry, geology, applied mathematics, computation, and engineering science has been built at Minnesota. The 1982 outputs of the interdisciplinary team of investigators were again ideas, instruments, techniques, data, understanding and skilled people: forty-one scientific and engineering papers in leading journals; four pioneering Ph.D. theses; numerous presentations to scientific and technical meetings, and to industrial, governmental and university laboratories; vigorous program of research visits to and from Minnesota; and two outstanding Ph.D.'s to research positions in the petroleum industry, one to a university faculty position, one to research leadership in a governmental institute. This report summarizes the 1982 papers and theses and features sixteen major accomplishments of the program during that year. Abstracts of all forty-five publications in the permanent literature are appended. Further details of information transfer and personnel exchange with industrial, governmental and university laboratories appear in 1982 Quarterly Reports available from the Department of Energy and are not reproduced here. The Minnesota program continues in 1983, notwithstanding earlier uncertainty about the DOE funding which finally materialized and is the bulk of support. Supplemental grants-in-aid from nine companies in the petroleum industry are important, as are the limited University and departmental contributions. 839 references, 172 figures, 29 tables.
- Research Organization:
- Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis (USA). Inst. of Tech.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC19-79BC10116
- OSTI ID:
- 5235848
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/BC/10116-26; ON: DE84009783
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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37 INORGANIC
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
ENHANCED RECOVERY
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
MICROEMULSION FLOODING
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
MICROEMULSIONS
PHASE STUDIES
PETROLEUM
POROUS MATERIALS
FLUID FLOW
SURFACTANTS
MICROSTRUCTURE
ALCOHOLS
BRINES
DISPERSIONS
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
INTERFACES
PERMEABILITY
PETROLEUM SULFONATES
SURFACE TENSION
COLLOIDS
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
DATA
EMULSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
ESTERS
FLUID INJECTION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
MATERIALS
MICROSCOPY
MISCIBLE-PHASE DISPLACEMENT
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS
RECOVERY
SULFONATES
SULFONIC ACID ESTERS
SURFACE PROPERTIES
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