Effect of gravity, flow rate, and small scale heterogeneity on multiphase flow of CO2and Brine

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North American Regional Meeting 2010 - In Collaboration with the Joint Meetings of the Pacific Section AAPG and Cordilleran Section GSA

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 377-389

  Kuo, Chia Wei ^a   Perrin, Jean Christophe ^a   Benson, Sally M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEREA SANDSTONE; BRINE DISPLACEMENT; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; COREFLOOD; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; FRACTIONAL FLOW; GRAVITY FORCES; HETEROGENEOUS CORES; HIGH-FLOW RATE; INJECTION WELLS; LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS; RATE DEPENDENT; SATURATION DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATOR TOUGH2; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; STEADY STATE; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WELL REGION;

BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERS; EXPERIMENTS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MULTIPHASE FLOW;

BRINES;

EID: 77958504103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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