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Evaluating the performance of tailor-made water-soluble copolymers for enhanced oil recovery polymer flooding applications
- Source :
- Fuel. 203:269-278
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- This work evaluated the performance of designed AAm/AAc copolymers with tailor-made properties in polymer flooding applications for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Displacement tests using unconsolidated sand-packs with simulated real reservoir conditions were performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the designed copolymers during the displacement of heavy oil having a viscosity of 1192 cP. Experimental results demonstrated the superior mobility control functionality of the AAm/AAc copolymers compared to a commercially available EOR polyacrylamide copolymer. Likewise, higher incremental heavy oil recovery was obtained under the same experimental conditions by the AAm/AAc copolymers. This work identified the best performing copolymers and, more significantly, emphasizes the importance of a systematic approach in designing appropriate copolymers for EOR polymer flooding applications.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
General Chemical Engineering
Polymer flooding
Organic Chemistry
Polyacrylamide
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
02 engineering and technology
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Viscosity
chemistry.chemical_compound
Fuel Technology
Mobility control
Water soluble
020401 chemical engineering
chemistry
Chemical engineering
Polymer chemistry
Copolymer
Enhanced oil recovery
0204 chemical engineering
0210 nano-technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00162361
- Volume :
- 203
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fuel
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1f7821b55288c2827d37421a8186d29e