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Title: Investigation of Multiscale and Multiphase Flow, Transport and Reaction in Heavy Oil Recovery Processes

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/802152· OSTI ID:802152

In this report, the thrust areas include the following: Internal drives, vapor-liquid flows, combustion and reaction processes, fluid displacements and the effect of instabilities and heterogeneities and the flow of fluids with yield stress. These find respective applications in foamy oils, the evolution of dissolved gas, internal steam drives, the mechanics of concurrent and countercurrent vapor-liquid flows, associated with thermal methods and steam injection, such as SAGD, the in-situ combustion, the upscaling of displacements in heterogeneous media and the flow of foams, Bingham plastics and heavy oils in porous media and the development of wormholes during cold production.

Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Tulsa, OK (United States). National Petroleum Technology Office (NPTO)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC26-99BC15211
OSTI ID:
802152
Report Number(s):
DOE/BC/15211-21; TRN: US200302%%387
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 8 Oct 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English