Bachelor End Project
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The mobilization of the trapped residual oil is an important part of Enhanced Oil Recovery. The desaturation of nonwetting fluids from porous media is often described using capillary numbers which are a ratio of viscous forces over the capillary forces between the wetting and the nonwetting fluids. Twodimensional microfluidic devices (micromodels) play an important role as they allow for the visualization of the two phase flow in porous media. Even though the existing definitions for capillary numbers work fine for describing the mobilization of the trapped nonwetting phase in geological rock, problems arise when applying these definitions for capillary numbers on micromodels. The conventional definition of the capillary numbers do not allow to visualize the desaturation of nonwetting phases in different micromodels on a single trend. This research presents the derivation of a new definition of a capillary number that can be used to better analyze the mobilization of trapped nonwetting ganglions inside micromodels. The new capillary number is based on a force balance on a trapped ganglion and the corresponding mobilization criteria of the trapped nonwetting phase. The new definition of the capillary number consists of the conventional definition of the capillary number and a geometric term that accounts for the geometry of the micromodel, including the sizes of the pore bodies and throats as well as the ganglion length. The functionality of similar definitions of the capillary number for roughened fractures has previously been published by Al Quaimi and Rossen (2017). The functionally of the new capillary number has been tested by analyzing published desaturation data for various micromodels, each using different wetting and nonwetting phase combinations using both the conventional and the new definition of the capillary number. It is found that the new definition allows for better analysis of the mobilization of the trapped nonwetting fluid inside micromodels, as the desaturation curves for different models can now be visualized by a single trend. Also, it is suggested that the geometrical parameters of the new equation are more significant for describing the mobilization of the trapped nonwetting phase than the permeability of the medium and the interfacial properties of the wetting and nonwetting phases. M. W. Smit Delft, October 2017
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