A Study of Oil Displacement on Model Surfaces

resulting in decreased energy consumption and increased Experiments were performed to study bitumen film rupture and bitumen recovery, is the impetus for undertaking a systemdisplacement on model surfaces. Bitumen film on a glass plate atic study of the mechanisms involved in oil–water displacewas found to thin down and rupture in the presence of water ment on a solid surface. Such mechanistic understanding can having a high pH; whereas on a polytetrafluoroethylene surface, also help in other applications such as in situ recovery of film rupture did not take place. Experimental results on the rate petroleum using water flooding or enhanced-oil-recovery of bitumen/water contact line displacement on a glass surface are processes used to displace oil from the pores of a reservoir also reported. A thin coating of bitumen on a glass surface re(2) . The treatment of beaches exposed to oil spills entails tracted spontaneously in the inward radial direction upon expo-