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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
卷 231, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2020.116250
关键词
Two-tracer method; Wettability; Solid-fluid interfacial area; Enhanced oil recovery
资金
- Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, India [35/14/50/2014-BRNS]
The study introduces a new method using tracer to quantify the solid-liquid interfacial area in a porous medium. Experimental results show that there is a difference in the interfacial area between oil and water in the porous medium at the same residual saturation, which can be used for wettability quantification.
Quantification of wettability inside a porous medium is challenging. Most of the currently available methods use either a proxy surface of the porous solid or a small sample of the porous medium for wettability quantification. Recognizing that more wetting fluid has more interfacial area with porous solid, we develop a tracer method to quantify the solid-liquid interfacial area for a porous medium. We use two tracers for a fluid-phase, an ideal tracer, and an adsorbing tracer. The ideal tracer follows the flow path, and the adsorbing tracer dynamically adsorbs on the porous surface. We use the tracers' mean residence time to quantify the solid-liquid interfacial area during multiphase flow in a porous medium. We conduct the tracer flow experiments at various saturations for a given wettability condition. We observe a monotonic behaviour of the wetted area with the fluid saturations. At the same residual saturation, oil has 10% less interfacial area with the porous solid in comparison to water. This difference in contact area can be used for quantifying the wettability using our methodology. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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