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van Wieren, Thijs (author)In order to supply the demand of oil, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques are nowadays widely applied in the oil recovery industry to maximize reservoir sweep efficiencies. CO2-EOR method has been largely used in the petroleum industry for several decades, which can contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emission through CO2...master thesis 2022
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Schmidt, Julia (author)Synthetic polymers, in the emulsified form, have been utilized for enhanced oil recovery applications by using saline make-up water. However, there are concerns that have been raised about their injectivity. The large entangled polymer chains can clog the pore throats, giving a tendency to cause injectivity reduction. In this study, processing...master thesis 2018
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De Vries, H.C. (author)In this research a workflow for upscaling polymer flooding is developed. The workflow generates pseudorelative permeabilities (pseudos) to represent flow behaviour affected by fine scale heterogeneities in a coarse grid. With this workflow, a better estimate of the difference in production from a polymer flood compared to a water flood can be...master thesis 2016
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Boekhout, S.G. (author)Polymer flooding can significantly improve the sweep efficiency in heterogeneous reservoirs compared to a water flood. This is caused by the improved mobility of the polymer flood, which has an effect on the crossflow mechanisms caused by viscous, capillary and gravitational forces in the reservoir. However it is not yet fully understood how the...master thesis 2015