Effect of temperature on oil/water relative permeabilities in microfluidic micromodel, The

Over the last four decades, many studies have been conducted to investigate the effect of temperature on oil/water relative permeability. Many contradictions and disagreements have been observed in these studies. Some studies have shown the effect of temperature, others have disagreed with that by attributing changes to other experimental errors, such as viscous instabilities.In this study, the effect of temperature on oil/water relative permeability was studied in a microfluidic micromodel system. First, the microfluidic micromodel fabrication procedures using Norland Optical Adhesive 81 (NOA81) was demonstrated. Images from two-phase flow displacement experiments were captured, processed and analyzed with MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox. The Jones and Roszelle method and an alternate approach based on Darcy’s law were used to calculate oil/water relative permeabilities from displacement experiments. The results of this study indicated that, as temperature went up, oil relative permeability increased, and residual oil saturation decreased. There were some disagreements in water relative permeability data obtained by Darcy’s law and the Jones and Roszelle method. This thesis explains the experimental setup and procedure, measurement and calculation techniques, and assumptions made, documents the data and results, provides a discussion of the conclusions and recommendations for future work.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Petroleum Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Madalimov, Medet

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ozkan, E.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Yin, Xiaolong
• Zerpa, Luis E.

• NOA81 polimer
• relative permeability
• microfluidic micromodel
• temperature effect on oil and water relative permeabilities
• oil/water displacement

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright of the original work is retained by the author.

Language dc:language.iso

eng, English

Identifier

T 9089

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.mines.edu:11124/176402