화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.65, 280-289, September, 2018
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2018.04.039  Export Citation
Role of water-soluble polymer on foam-injection process for enhancing oil recovery
Peng Wei†, Wanfen Pu†, Lin Sun, Yong Pu, Daibo Li, and Ying Chen1
  • State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
  • 1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
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Role of polymer on foam transportation in porous media is still not entirely illustrated. In this study, we performed the foam injection process in cores and the parallel-layered micromodel, respectively. Combined with a series of static investigations, we found that adding polymer to foam could not only effectively generate a viscous force, but also create a protective enclosure around the bubble (i.e., viscoelastic film). This synergistic effect was supposed to increase the foam apparent viscosity, promote the foam strength in the low-quality regime, create the shear-thickening behavior, and restraint the defoaming effect of crude oil. The microflow experiments indicated that polymer-enhanced foam was capable of sharply increasing the sweep efficiency and EOR. Meanwhile, the presence of viscoelastic liquid films contributed to the microflow behaviors.
Keywords:Foam injection;Polymer-enhanced foam;Viscoelastic films;Foam transportation;Enhanced oil recovery
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