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Investigation of immiscible and miscible foam for enhancing oil recovery / R. Farajzadeh in Industrial & engineering chemistry research, Vol. 49 N° 4 (Fevrier 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 49 N° 4 (Fevrier 2010) . - pp 1910–1919 Titre : Investigation of immiscible and miscible foam for enhancing oil recovery Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : R. Farajzadeh, Auteur ; Andrianov, A., Auteur ; P. L. J. Zitha, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp 1910–1919 Note générale : Chimie industrielle Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Immiscible  miscible  foam  Oil  recovery. Résumé : We report the study of flow of CO2 and N2 foam in natural sandstone cores containing oil with the aid of X-ray computed tomography. The study is relevant for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The cores were partially saturated with oil and brine (half top) and brine only (half bottom) to mimic the water−oil transition occurring in oil reservoirs. The CO2 was used either under subcritical conditions (P = 1 bar) or under supercritical (immiscible (P = 90 bar) and miscible (P = 137 bar)) conditions, whereas N2 remained subcritical. Prior to gas injection the cores were flooded with several pore volumes of water. In a typical foam experiment water flooding was followed by the injection of 1−2 pore volumes of a surfactant solution with alpha olefin sulfonate (AOS) as the foaming agent. We visually show how foam propagates in a porous medium containing oil. At low-pressure experiments (P = 1 bar) in the case of N2, weak foam could be formed in the oil-saturated part. Diffused oil bank is formed ahead of the foam front, which results in additional oil recovery, compared to pure gas injection. CO2 hardly foams in the oil-bearing part of the core, most likely due to its higher solubility. Above the critical point (P = 90 bar), CO2 injection following the slug of surfactant reduces its mobility when there is no oil. Nevertheless, when the foam front meets the oil, the interface between gas and liquid disappears. The presence of the surfactant (when foaming supercritical CO2) did not affect the oil recovery and pressure profile, indicating the detrimental effect of oil on foam stability in the medium. However, at miscible conditions (P = 137 bar), injection of surfactant prior to CO2 injection significantly increases the oil recovery. DEWEY : 660 ISSN : 0888-5885 En ligne : http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie901109d [article] Investigation of immiscible and miscible foam for enhancing oil recovery [texte imprimé] / R. Farajzadeh, Auteur ; Andrianov, A., Auteur ; P. L. J. Zitha, Auteur . - 2010 . - pp 1910–1919. Chimie industrielle Langues : Anglais (eng) in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 49 N° 4 (Fevrier 2010) . - pp 1910–1919 Mots-clés : Immiscible  miscible  foam  Oil  recovery. Résumé : We report the study of flow of CO2 and N2 foam in natural sandstone cores containing oil with the aid of X-ray computed tomography. The study is relevant for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The cores were partially saturated with oil and brine (half top) and brine only (half bottom) to mimic the water−oil transition occurring in oil reservoirs. The CO2 was used either under subcritical conditions (P = 1 bar) or under supercritical (immiscible (P = 90 bar) and miscible (P = 137 bar)) conditions, whereas N2 remained subcritical. Prior to gas injection the cores were flooded with several pore volumes of water. In a typical foam experiment water flooding was followed by the injection of 1−2 pore volumes of a surfactant solution with alpha olefin sulfonate (AOS) as the foaming agent. We visually show how foam propagates in a porous medium containing oil. At low-pressure experiments (P = 1 bar) in the case of N2, weak foam could be formed in the oil-saturated part. Diffused oil bank is formed ahead of the foam front, which results in additional oil recovery, compared to pure gas injection. CO2 hardly foams in the oil-bearing part of the core, most likely due to its higher solubility. Above the critical point (P = 90 bar), CO2 injection following the slug of surfactant reduces its mobility when there is no oil. Nevertheless, when the foam front meets the oil, the interface between gas and liquid disappears. The presence of the surfactant (when foaming supercritical CO2) did not affect the oil recovery and pressure profile, indicating the detrimental effect of oil on foam stability in the medium. However, at miscible conditions (P = 137 bar), injection of surfactant prior to CO2 injection significantly increases the oil recovery. DEWEY : 660 ISSN : 0888-5885 En ligne : http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie901109d