Studies on foam in porous media and the effect of oil

Doctoral thesis (2019)

Authors

A.A.A. Hussain Reservoir Engineering - CEG
Research Group
Reservoir Engineering (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2019 A.A.A. Hussain
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:ad56c73d-4986-4358-9dd2-2929004cea6f
EOR Foam Oil Surfactant Foam EOR Porous Media Crude oil Surfactant concentration
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Published Date

17-06-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Department

Geoscience and Engineering

Research Group

Reservoir Engineering

Abstract

Foam flooding can be applied in soil-remediation techniques or for improving oil recovery processes in petroleum reservoirs. There are models which aim to predict the behaviour of foam in presence of oil in bulk and in porous media, however these models are not very reliable. In this work we investigate different ways in which a specific crude oil impacts a specific foam in a porous medium. Furthermore, we model surfactant depletion by the gas-water interface, which can partly explain the transition from the low-quality to the high-quality regime of foam in porous media.