Coupling microfluidics data with core flooding experiments to understand sulfonated/polymer water injection

M Tahir, RE Hincapie, N Langanke, L Ganzer, P Jaeger - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The injection of sulfonated-modified water could be an attractive application as it results in
the formation of a mechanically rigid oil-water interface, and hence, possible higher oil …

The impact of connate water saturation and salinity on oil recovery and CO2 storage capacity during carbonated water injection in carbonate rock

M Shakiba, M Riazi, S Ayatollahi, M Takband - Chinese Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbonated water injection (CWI) is known as an efficient technique for both CO 2 storage
and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). During CWI process, CO 2 moves from the water phase …

Oil mobilization by viscoelastic flow instabilities effects during polymer EOR: A pore-scale visualization approach

RE Hincapie, A Rock, J Wegner… - SPE Latin America and …, 2017 - onepetro.org
This paper investigates the additional oil recovery associated to viscoelastic flow instabilities
encountered during polymer flooding. Single and two-phase polymer EOR experiments …

Evaluation of aluminium oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles for EOR applications

AS Hogeweg, RE Hincapie, H Foedisch… - SPE Europec featured at …, 2018 - onepetro.org
Utilization of nanoparticles in EOR have gained high attention recently, with good but
controversial results reported on improving oil recovery. Within this work two types of …

Advanced flow behavior characterization of enhanced oil recovery polymers using glass-silicon-glass micromodels that resemble porous media

A Rock, RE Hincapie, J Wegner… - SPE Europec featured at …, 2017 - onepetro.org
This study focuses on the investigation of the flow behavior of viscoelastic polymer solutions
in porous media, aiming to better understand three phenomena: Elastic turbulence, elastic …

Investigation of pore-scale mechanisms of microbial enhanced oil recovery MEOR using microfluidics application

C Gaol, J Wegner, L Ganzer, N Dopffel… - SPE Europec featured …, 2019 - onepetro.org
Utilisation of microorganisms as an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method has attracted
much attention in recent years because it is a low-cost and environmentally friendly …

An elongational and shear evaluation of polymer viscoelasticity during flow in porous media

M Tahir, RE Hincapie, L Ganzer - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper uses a combination of approaches to evaluate the viscoelastic phenomenon in
high-molecular-weight polymers (24–28 M Daltons) used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) …

Novel Evaluation of Foam and Immiscible Gas Flooding in Glass-Silicon-Glass Micromodels

F Hauhs, H Födisch, RE Hincapie… - SPE Europec featured at …, 2018 - onepetro.org
We present a systematic workflow to facilitate the visualization of different fluids
behavior/performance. Fluids study in this work are brine, gas and specially foam, during …

Optimizing Laboratory cEOR Flooding Evaluations to Assess Initial Oil Saturation and Mobility Ratio

H Foedisch, H Abdullah, RE Hincapie… - SPE Europec featured at …, 2018 - onepetro.org
We evaluate the polymer, surfactant and alkaline flooding performance in porous media by
using an in-house innovative experimental setup. This, to reach an optimum experimental …

Pore-scale visualization of oil recovery by viscoelastic flow instabilities during polymer eor

A Rock, RE Hincapie, J Wegner, H Födisch… - IOR 2017-19th …, 2017 - earthdoc.org
This paper provides a new understanding of pore-scale polymer displacement processes,
namely an additional oil recovery due to elastic turbulence. Using the potential of state-of …