Viscous-Elastic Polymer Can Increase Microscale Displacement Efficiency in Cores

By Demin Wang, Jiecheng Cheng, Qin-you Yang, Wenchao Gong, L. Qun, Fuming Chen. 2000

186 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Geochemistry and Petrology, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77c7004234bb1c03ac68a67207eb2b57625c3022

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. R. Seright
2. Masa Prodanovic
3. Denis Rodrigue

In Ocean Engineering

1. R. Seright
2. Masa Prodanovic
3. J. Gostick

Citations in the corpus

• Numerical Algorithms for Network Modeling of Yield Stress and other Non-Newtonian Fluids in Porous Media (2012, background): “For example, in enhanced oil recovery polymers are used to increase sweep efficiency and may even reduce residual oil saturation (Wang et al. 2000).”
• Oil displacement mechanisms of viscoelastic polymers in enhanced oil recovery (EOR): a review (2014, background): “Nonetheless, Wang et al. (2000) have studied this issue extensively by evaluating the effectiveness of polymer flooding in displacing ‘‘residual oil’’ after water flooding at different conditions as follows.”
• How Much Polymer Should Be Injected During a Polymer Flood? Review of Previous and Current Practices (2016, background): “However, for conditions associated with the Daqing reservoir, researchers (Wang et al. 2000, 2001a, 2001b; Xia et al. 2004; Wu et al. 2007; Wang et al. 2010, 2011) argued that HPAM solutions reduced Sor by 6–15% in saturation, even with waterfloods and polymer floods conducted at the same constant…”