Investigation of Generalized Relative Permeability Coefficients for Electrically Assisted Oil Recovery in Oil Formations

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• 作者：Ehsan Ghazanfari (1)
  Sibel Pamukcu (2)
  Mesut Pervizpour (2)
  Zuleima Karpyn (3)
  
• 关键词：Relative permeability ; Electro ; osmosis ; Viscous drag ; Oil recovery ; Saturation
• 刊名：Transport in Porous Media
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：October 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：105
• 期：1
• 页码：235-253
• 全文大小：838 KB
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• 作者单位：Ehsan Ghazanfari (1)
  Sibel Pamukcu (2)
  Mesut Pervizpour (2)
  Zuleima Karpyn (3)
  
  1. Civil and Environmental Engineering Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
  3. Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
  
• ISSN：1573-1634

文摘

Evaluation of relative permeability coefficients is one of the key steps in reliable simulation of two-phase flow in porous media. An extensive body of work exists on evaluation of these coefficients for two-phase flow under pressure gradient. Oil transport under an applied electrical gradient in porous media is also governed by the principles of two-phase flow, but is less understood. In this paper, relative permeability coefficients under applied electric field are evaluated for a specific case of two- phase fluid flow in water-wet porous media, where the second fluid phase is oil. It is postulated that the viscous drag on the oil phase, exerted by the electro-osmotic flow of the water phase, is responsible for the transport of oil in the absence of a pressure gradient. Reliable prediction of the flow patterns necessitates accurate representation and determination of the relative permeability coefficients under the electrical gradient. The contribution of each phase to the flow is represented mathematically, and the relative permeability coefficients are evaluated through electro-osmotic flow measurements conducted on oil bearing rock cores.