Advancements in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This comprehensive book presents, describes, and summarizes the latest advances in chemical EOR, considered to be an efficient technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in reservoirs. This volume reports on the various EOR methods, which rely on the injection of chemicals to boost oil recovery.

The book discusses methods that include the injection of foams, surfactants, polymers, or even nanofluids into reservoirs, all of which have their unique challenges and advantages. The volume first provides an introduction to chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and discusses its viability. From there, it delves in the various EOR methods, including low-salinity water flooding, polymer and surfactant flooding, foam flooding, nanofluid flooding, hybrid methods, ionic liquid applications, and others. The book covers chemical synthesis of EOR agents and numerical simulation of compositional models in porous media, including a description of possible application of nanotechnology acting as a booster of traditional chemical EOR processes. The volume also addresses the need for customized approaches for unconventional reservoirs and the challenges.

Key features:

• Discusses the latest advancements in chemical EOR with an emphasis on the low-price viability of EOR
• Investigates the synergy between various EOR methods
• Gives special emphasis to the use of CO2 in conjunction with EOR methods, exploring the possibility of both EOR and increased carbon sequestration
• Looks at the effect of varying synthesized porous media (sand, shale, carbonate, glass beads) for EOR implementation
• Addresses the implementation and applicability of chemical EOR in oil reservoirs of India and elsewhere

Regardless of the rapid advancements in other sources of energy, it is estimated that for the near foreseeable future, hydrocarbon-based fossil fuels will remain the dominant source of energy. However, given the recent decline in the discovery of new hydrocarbon reserves, it has become a challenge to satisfy the global demand of energy by economically and ecologically sustainable sources of hydrocarbon energy. In the meantime, a significant portion of oil remains underground, even after all conventional oil recovery practices. This has created an opportunity for chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques to improve the rate of oil recovery from depleted reservoirs. Chemical EOR depends on the infusion of synthetic compounds to alter the properties of the rock or crude oil to make the mobilization and recovery of oil easier.

The book will provide a fundamental understanding of the industry to researchers, industry professionals, academicians, and undergraduate, and postgraduate students. The volume will serve as a reference book for university libraries and as a ready reference for industry professionals.