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Título: OIL DISPLACEMENT IN MICRO MODELS OF POROUS MEDIA BY INJECTION OF OIL IN WATER EMULSION
Autor: KELLY MARGARITA COLMENARES VARGAS
Colaborador(es): MARCIO DA SILVEIRA CARVALHO - Orientador
Catalogação: 07/NOV/2018 Língua(s): PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL
Tipo: TEXT Subtipo: THESIS
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Referência(s): [pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35523&idi=1
[en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35523&idi=2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.35523
Resumo:
The oil recovery process by water-flooding is the most used method in the oil industry. However, the high mobility ratios and low sweep efficiencies make the process less effective. A common alternative to minimize this effect is the application of technologies that act as mobility control agents. Among them and in particular the injection of oil in water emulsions has been studied with relative success as an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) method. Several studies indicate a better reservoir sweep due to the water mobility reduction in regions already swept by water. This reduction can be associated with partial blockage of porous media throats by droplets of emulsion dispersed phase. Nevertheless, there is still no full understanding of the mechanisms associated to the flow of emulsions in porous media, thus, an analysis and visualization at the microscopic scale of the involved phenomena is essential for the improvement of the comprehension of the flow of emulsions in a reservoir. In this work, experimental tests related to the flow of emulsions in a glass micro-model were performed, artificial device that represents some principal features of a porous medium and provides a proper visualization of the phase behavior. In the experiments, the effect of the capillary number on the oil recovery factor and the relative influence of the wettability of the porous medium on the oil displacement process were studied. The results evidence how the oil droplets in the emulsion are capable of block the pores and the pore throats modifying the fluids distribution in the porous medium, improving the displacement efficiency at pore scale and consequently the final oil recovery factor. It was also observed that at high capillary numbers, the blocking caused by the capillary pressure needed to deform the droplet becomes less intense. These results provide a great learning by allowing to know the characteristics of the flow of emulsions in porous media for a future field application.
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