Distribution and Presence of Polymers in Porous Media

Juan Zhao, Hongfu Fan, Qing You and Yi Jia
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Juan Zhao: School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), No. 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
Hongfu Fan: School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), No. 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
Qing You: School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), No. 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
Yi Jia: School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), No. 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-13

Abstract: In order to better utilize the residual polymers formed after polymer flooding, the distribution and the presence of the polymers after polymer flooding were studied. This paper studied the vertical and plane distribution of the hydrophobically-associating polymer in addition to measuring the parameters after polymer flooding, which is important for numerical reservoir simulation. The results showed that the polymers mainly enter into the high permeability zone and distribute in the mainstream line area with only a small portion in the wing area. Based on the comparison of various experimental methods, double-slug experiments were chosen to measure the inaccessible pore volume and retention, which is considered to be the most accurate, most time-consuming and most complex method. Following this, we improved the processing method of experimental data by reducing it to one experiment with two parameters. At the same time, we further enhanced the accuracy of the experimental results. The results show that at 1750 mg/L, the inaccessible pore volume of the polymer is 25.8%. When the detention is 68.2 µg/g, the inaccessible pore volume constituted 22% of the total polymer, with the other 77.7% being the dissolved polymer. Moreover, the static adsorption and dynamic detention were measured, with the results showing that the static adsorption is larger than dynamic detention. Therefore, in the numerical reservoir simulation, using the static adsorption capacity instead of the dynamic detention is unreasonable. The double-slug method was chosen since it is more accurate for the determination of various parameters. Meanwhile, in order to enhance the accuracy of results, we improved the treatment of data.

Keywords: distribution; presence state; double-slug experiments; inaccessible pore volume; detention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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