Polymer flow through water- and oil-wet porous media

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摘要 Theeffectofwettabilityonpolymerbehaviorinporousmediaisinvestigatedthroughaseriesofsyntheticpolymerfloodsconductedinwater-andoil-wetBentheimandBereasandstonecores.Anewexperimentalsetupisusedinwhichthecoreeffluentpolymerconcentrationsarenotmeasuredduringpolymerflooding,butinsteadarepassedthroughacapillarytubethatisconnectedtothecoreoutlet.Usingthenotionofintrinsicviscosity,anapproximateexpressionispresentedthatcanbeusedtodeterminethebreakthroughtimeoftheinjectedpolymersolution.Inaddition,polymeradsorption,inaccessibleporevolume,andapparentviscositiesareevaluatedforallcoresandwettingconditions.Ingeneral,inthepresenceofresidualoil,theoil-wetcoresdisplaythelowestdegreeofpolymerretention(Berea)andthelowestinaccessibleporevolume-IPV(Bentheim).ThelargestwettabilityimpactonthepolymerbehaviorinporousmediaappearstobefortheBereaformation;polymerretentioninoil-wetcoresdecreases90%andIPV52%comparedtothecorrespondingamountsforthewater-wetones.Ontheotherhand,theestimatedpolymerretentionandIPVvaluesappeartobesimilarfortheoil-andwater-wetBentheimcores,thisisattributedtoquestionablewettabilityalteration.
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出版日期 2015年05月15日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)