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ProfessorAnnMuggeridge

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Consul for Faculty of Engineering and the Business School
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7379a.muggeridge Website

 
 
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Location

 

2.38BRoyal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Abdul:2018:10.1007/s10596-018-9721-0,
author = {Abdul, Hamid S and Muggeridge, AH},
doi = {10.1007/s10596-018-9721-0},
journal = {Computational Geosciences: modeling, simulation and data analysis},
pages = {711--723},
title = {Analytical solution of polymer slug injection with viscous fingering},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10596-018-9721-0},
volume = {22},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We present an analytical solution to estimate the minimum polymer slug size needed to ensure that viscous fingering of chase water does not cause its breakdown during secondary oil recovery. Polymer flooding is typically used to improve oil recovery from more viscous oil reservoirs. The polymer is injected as a slug followed by chase water to reduce costs; however, the water is less viscous than the oil. This can result in miscible viscous fingering of the water into the polymer, breaking down the slug and reducing recovery. The solution assumes that the average effect of fingering can be represented by the empirical Todd and Longstaff model. The analytical calculation of minimum slug size is compared against numerical solutions using the Todd and Longstaff model as well as high resolution first contact miscible simulation of the fingering. The ability to rapidly determine the minimum polymer slug size is potentially very useful during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) screening studies.
AU  - Abdul,Hamid S
AU  - Muggeridge,AH
DO  - 10.1007/s10596-018-9721-0
EP  - 723
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1420-0597
SP  - 711
TI  - Analytical solution of polymer slug injection with viscous fingering
T2  - Computational Geosciences: modeling, simulation and data analysis
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10596-018-9721-0
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10596-018-9721-0
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55827
VL  - 22
ER  -
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