Studies of Iranian heavy oils pertinent to reservoir conditions for their auto-ignition to initiate fire flooding

Dennis Price, Samaneh Razzaghi, Riyaz Kharrat, Davood Rashtchian, Shapour Vossoughi

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)643-657
Number of pages15
JournalChemical engineering communications
Volume196
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This study has been sponsored by National Iranian Oil Company, Research and Development Directorate (NIOC, R&D), which is gratefully acknowledged. We also acknowledge the staff of the ARC units of the In-Situ Combustion Research Laboratory at the University of Calgary. The authors wish to thank the University of Bolton for permission to carry out the thermal analysis experiments in their fire research laboratory.

Keywords

  • Auto-ignition
  • Combustion tube
  • Heavy oil
  • In situ combustion
  • Kinetic

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