Study of Microscopic and Macroscopic Displacement Behaviors of Polymer Solution in Water-Wet and Oil-Wet Media

Hamid Emami Meybodi, Riyaz Kharrat, Xiaoqi Wang

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)97-120
Number of pages24
JournalTransport in porous media
Volume89
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2011

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This work was carried out with financial support from the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). The authors thank Petroleum University of Technology Research Center, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute (Department of Process Modeling and Control), and Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (Polymer Science and Technology Research Division) for providing technical support and the laboratory facilities. The authors also thank reviewers for useful comments. Finally, the first author thanks Benyamin Yadali Jamaloei at the University of Calgary for technical discussions.

Keywords

  • Glass micromodel
  • Microscopic and macroscopic displacement
  • Oil recovery
  • Polymer flooding
  • Wettability

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