asphaltene instability is one of the major problems in gas injection projects throughout the world. numerous models have been developed to predict asphaltene precipitation; the scaling equation is an attractive tool because of its simplicity and not involving complex properties of asphaltene. in this work, a new scaling model is presented to account  for asphaltene precipitation due to gas inje...

the analytical theory of one dimensional, dispersion free miscible displacement of oil by injection gas with nc component has shown that: the mmp is the lowest pressure at which any one of the initial oil, injection gas or crossover key tie lines becomes critical, which means that its length approaches to zero. in this paper, we propose a method for a solving multi component system based on ana...

the miscible displacement process appears to be an increasingly feasible method for the extraction of oil from depleted reservoirs. how­ever, there is a lack of fundamental understanding of how fracture geometrical characteristics impact the oil recovery efficiency in this type of enhanced oil recovery technique. in this work, a series of experimental tests were conducted whereby the n-heptane ...

Estimation of radical scavenging capacity of lipophilic antioxidants by electron spin resonance (ESR) in vitro is a challenging issue due to their poor solubility in aqueous radical generating and measuring systems. Water-miscible organic solvents are used for this purpose. A novel radical trapping agent, 5-(2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propoxy cyclophosphoryl)-5-methyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (CYPMPO), that h...

Miscible and near-miscible flooding are used to improve the performance of carbon-dioxide-enhanced oil recovery in heterogeneous porous media. However, knowledge effects pore structure on CO2/oil flow behavior under these two conditions is insufficient. In this study, we construct pore-scale models for various methods comparatively analyze efficiency The simulation results indicate that compare...

Basic relationships between the phase diagrams, previously considered independent of each other, are described. Phase diagrams of two-component phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylcholine (PC/PC), phosphatidylethanolamine/phosphatidylethanolamine (PE/PE), and PC/PE lipid membranes are systematically investigated by means of the Landau theory. While gradually changing the chain length of one of the ...

core flooding experiments were conducted with the objective of evaluating near miscible surfactant alternating co2 injection and the effect of surfactant concentrations on gas-oil and water displacements in porous media. the core samples were provided from a low permeability mixed wet oil reservoir at 156 °f and 1900 psia. in addition, very few studies of surfactant adsorption on carbonate mine...