A correlation between interfacial tension, emulsifying ability and oil displacement efficiency of ASP system for Daqing crude oil. (17th December 2018) - Geng, Jie
Abstract: Interfacial tension and emulsification are important to enhance oil recovery. There is almost none quantitative research on their correlation for Daqing crude oil. Experiments are performed to find out the correlation between different interfacial tension, emulsification and chemical flooding oil displacement efficiency. The authors changed the structure of surfactant to make characteristics of interfacial tension different significantly and build the relationship between interfacial tension parameters and chemical flooding oil displacement efficiency by physical simulate experiments. The ultralow interfacial tension index (expressed by S) is established by orthogonal test and actual significance of interfacial tension curves. The fitting formula between S and chemical flooding oil displacement efficiency (E) is: E = 0.856 ln(S) + 13.849. The emulsifying ability includes two aspects O/W and W/O. Authors changed the structure of surfactant to make characteristics of ASP systems have similar interfacial property but different emulsification property. Compared the oil displacement efficiency of these systems, built the correlation between emulsifying ability and chemical flooding oil displacement efficiency for Daqing crude oil. This paper established the index of ultralow interfacial tension and emulsification, and summed up the formulae based on that with oil displacement efficiency. The quantitative evaluation of ASP system can optimize the existing evaluation methods and deepen understandings on flooding mechanism for Daqing crude oil.