The Prediction of Minimum Miscible Pressure for CO2 EOR using a Process Simulator

Felicia Salim; Seojin Kim; Dadan D.S.M. Saputra; Wisup Bae; Jaihyo Lee; In-Won Kim

Korean Chemical Engineering Research, Vol.54, No.5, 606-611, October, 2016

DOI10.9713/kcer.2016.54.5.606 Export Citation

The Prediction of Minimum Miscible Pressure for CO2 EOR using a Process Simulator

Felicia Salim, Seojin Kim, Dadan D.S.M. Saputra¹, Wisup Bae¹, Jaihyo Lee^{2, †}, and In-Won Kim^†

Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 05029, Korea
¹Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, Sejong University, 209, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 05006, Korea
²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Konkuk University, 120, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 05029, Korea

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Carbon dioxide injection is a widely known method of enhanced oil recovery (EOR). It is critical for the CO2 EOR that the injected CO2 to reach a condition fully miscible with oil. To reach the miscible point, a certain level of pressure is required, which is known as minimum miscibility pressure (MMP). In this study, a MMP prediction method using a process simulator is proposed. To validate the results of the simulation, those are compared to a slim tube experiment and several empirical correlations of previous literatures. Aspen HYSYS is utilized as the process simulator to create a model of CO2/crude oil encounter. The results of the study show that the process simulator model is capable of predicting MMP and comparable to other published methods.

Keywords:Minimum miscibility pressure;CO2 enhanced oil recovery;Process simulator;Slim tube experiment;MMP prediction

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