Investigation of Multiscale and Multiphase Flow, Transport and Reaction in Heavy Oil Recovery Processes.

Yortsos, Y. C.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Enhanced recovery;    Multiphase flow;    Petroleum;    Combustion;    Plastics;   

RP-ID  :  DE2001784112

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

This project is an investigation of various multi-phase and multiscale transport and reaction processes associated with heavy oil recovery. The thrust areas of the project include the following: Internal drives, vapor-liquid flows, combustion and reaction processes, fluid displacements and the effect of instabilities and heterogeneities and the flow of fluids with yield stress. These find respective applications in foamy oils, the evolution of dissolved gas, internal steam drives, the mechanics of concurrent and countercurrent vapor-liquid flows, associated with thermal methods and steam injection, such as SAGD, the in-situ combustion, the upscaling of displacements in heterogeneous media and the flow of foams, Bingham plastics and heavy oils in porous media and the development of wormholes during cold production.