InterPore2018 New Orleans

Session

Parallel 3-C

Parallel 3-C

15 May 2018, 09:30

New Orleans

76. A Practical Scale-Up Workflow for Numerical Simulation of Post-CHOPS (Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand) Solvent-Aided Processes

Dr Juliana Leung (University of Alberta)

15/05/2018, 09:32

MS 2.04: Transport phenomena in solvent-aided thermal recovery of heavy oil and bitumen

Oral 20 Minutes

Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) is widely used as a primary non-thermal production technique in thin heavy oil reservoirs. Development of the complex wormhole networks (i.e., high-permeability channels caused by sand production) renders the scalability of post-CHOPS solvent-aided processes to field applications challenging. It is widely accepted that configuration of wormhole...

274. Transport of Bitumen as Water-External Emulsion in Porous Media

Mr Kai Sheng (The University of Texas at Austin)

15/05/2018, 09:50

MS 2.04: Transport phenomena in solvent-aided thermal recovery of heavy oil and bitumen

Oral 20 Minutes

Water is the most predominant component in steam injection processes, such as steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). The main hypothesis in this research is that in-situ oil transport can be substantially enhanced by generating oil-in-water emulsion, where the water-continuous phase acts as an effective oil carrier. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the capability of oil-in-water...

281. On Determining the Onset of Asphalt Precipitation using Electrical Conductivity Measurements

Prof. Muhammad Sahimi (University of Southern California)

15/05/2018, 10:08

MS 2.04: Transport phenomena in solvent-aided thermal recovery of heavy oil and bitumen

Oral 20 Minutes

An important and largely unsolved problem is accurate prediction of the onset of precipitation of heavy organic compounds, such as asphalts, on the surface of the pores of a porous medium, such as oil reservoir. It was suggested some time ago that an effective method of identifying the onset may be through measuring the electrical conductivity of the solution that contains the heavy organic...

922. Microfluidics for Solvent-based Bitumen Recovery: Pore-Scale and Fluid Property Measurements

Mr ZhenBang Qi (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Toronto)

15/05/2018, 10:26

MS 2.04: Transport phenomena in solvent-aided thermal recovery of heavy oil and bitumen

Oral 20 Minutes

Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is the main technologically and economically feasible method for in situ bitumen extraction. While SAGD is effective, the steam generation process is a major source of CO2 emissions, and many strategies are currently under test to improve both the environmental and economic performance. Solvent-based processes – either pure solvent injection or...