A critical review of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs

Y Tan, Q Li, L Xu, A Ghaffar, X Zhou, P Li - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in carbonate reservoirs is regarded as
a promising EOR technology. However, the oil recovery factor of CO 2 EOR is low due to the …

Diffusivity of CO2 in H2O: A Review of Experimental Studies and Molecular Simulations in the Bulk and in Confinement

HM Polat, FM Coelho, TJH Vlugt… - Journal of Chemical & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
An in-depth review of the available experimental and molecular simulation studies of CO2
diffusion in H2O, which is a central property in important industrial and environmental …

A new prediction model of CO2 diffusion coefficient in crude oil under reservoir conditions based on BP neural network

H Chen, Y Wang, M Zuo, C Zhang, N Jia, X Liu, S Yang - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Diffusion is the key mechanism of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by CO 2 injection in
unconventional oil reservoirs. The accurate measurement of the diffusion coefficient in …

CO2 Diffusion and Dispersion in Porous Media: Review of Advances in Experimental Measurements and Mathematical Models

MG Rezk, J Foroozesh, A Abdulrahman… - Energy & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
CO2 molecular diffusion in subsurface porous media is one of the key mechanisms in high-
pressure–high-temperature CO2 geosequestration and CO2-based enhanced oil recovery …

Measurements of molecular diffusion coefficients of carbon dioxide, methane, and propane in heavy oil under reservoir conditions

AK Tharanivasan, C Yang, Y Gu - Energy & fuels, 2006 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the so-called pressure decay method is applied to measure the molecular
diffusivities of carbon dioxide, methane, and propane in heavy oil. In the experiment, a …

Accelerated Mass Transfer of CO2 in Reservoir Brine Due to Density-Driven Natural Convection at High Pressures and Elevated Temperatures

C Yang, Y Gu - Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 2006 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the mass transfer of CO2 into a reservoir brine sample is studied
experimentally at high pressures and elevated temperatures. The equilibrium concentration …

Determination of diffusion coefficients of supercritical CO2 under tight oil reservoir conditions with pressure-decay method

S Li, C Qiao, C Zhang, Z Li - Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2018 - Elsevier
A generalized methodology has been developed to determine the diffusion coefficients of
supercritical CO 2 under tight oil reservoir conditions considering the oil swelling effect …

Development of graphical methods for estimating the diffusivity coefficient of gases in bitumen from pressure-decay data

H Sheikha, M Pooladi-Darvish, AK Mehrotra - Energy & fuels, 2005 - ACS Publications
New graphical techniques are presented for estimating the diffusivity coefficient (or mass
diffusivity) of CO2, CH4, and N2 in highly viscous bitumens from pressure-decay data. These …

Role of fluid density on quartz wettability

B Pan, Y Li, L Xie, X Wang, Q He, Y Li… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydrocarbon recovery and reserves estimation largely depend upon the hydrocarbon-water-
mineral wettability. However, wettability is a complex parameter and experimental …

Determination of individual diffusion coefficients of solvent/CO2 mixture in heavy oil with pressure-decay method

H Li, D Yang - SPE Journal, 2016 - onepetro.org
A novel methodology was developed to determine the molecular-diffusion coefficient for
each component of the solvent/CO 2 mixture in heavy oil under reservoir conditions on the …