Role of oil-water emulsion in enhanced oil recovery

Author

Mandal, Ajay ; Samanta, Abhijit ; Bera, Achinta ; Ojha, Keka

Author_Institution

Dept. of Pet. Eng., Indian Sch. of Mines, Dhanbad, India

fYear

2010

fDate

1-3 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

194

Abstract

Oil-in-water emulsions are important in the petroleum industry as a displacing fluid for enhanced oil recovery. In the present study commercially available gear oil was used to prepare oil-in-water emulsions. Characterizations of the emulsions were performed with respect to their physicochemical properties and size distribution of the dispersed oil droplet in water phase. Experiments were also carried out to observe the efficiency of the emulsion as displacing fluid for enhanced oil recovery. Substantial additional recoveries (more than 20% of original oil in place) over conventional water flooding were obtained in the present study.

Keywords

disperse systems; drops; emulsions; petroleum industry; water; dispersed oil droplet; displacing fluid; enhanced oil recovery; gear oil; oil-in-water emulsions; petroleum industry; physicochemical properties; size distribution; substantial additional recoveries; water flooding; water phase; Chemical engineering; Chemistry; Floods; Permeability; Petroleum; Viscosity; bubble size; emulsion; enhanced oil recovery; flooding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (ICCCE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7765-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7766-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCENG.2010.5560393

Filename

5560393