Foam formation during drainage of a surfactant solution in a microfluidic porous medium model

Author:

Lima Nicolle,Parsa Shima,Paciornik Sidnei,Carvalho Marcio S.

Abstract

AbstractFoam has been shown to have great potential to significantly improve sweep efficiency during gas injection in oil recovery, remediation of contaminated sites, gas storage, and acidification processes. The gas mobility reduction largely depends on the generation and stability of lamellae in the pore space that traps the gas phase. Most available analyses focus on foam formation during the co-injection of gas and liquid phases at different fractional flow (foam quality) or flow of foam formed before being injected in the porous media. During surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) injection, foam is formed as the aqueous phase is displaced by the gas slug that follows. The dynamics of lamellae formation and their stability are different from that of a co-injection process, since the amount of surfactant available to stabilize the gas-liquid interfaces is fixed as fresh surfactant solution is not injected together with the gas phase. This work studies foam formation during the drainage of a surfactant solution by gas injection at a fixed flow rate. A transparent microfluidic model of a porous medium is used in order to enable the correlation of pore-scale phenomena and macroscopic flow behavior. The results show that the maximum number of lamellae increases with surfactant concentration, even much above the critical micelle concentration (CMC). The availability of surfactant molecules needed to stabilize newly formed gas-liquid interfaces rises with concentration. The higher number of lamellae formed at higher surfactant concentration leads to stronger mobility reduction of the gas phase and longer time needed for the gas to percolate through the porous medium.

Funder

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

Shell do Brasil

Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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