Breakthrough pressure of oil displacement by water through the ultra-narrow kerogen pore throat from the Young–Laplace equation and molecular dynamic simulations-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Breakthrough pressure of oil displacement by water through the ultra-narrow kerogen pore throat from the Young–Laplace equation and molecular dynamic simulations

Published:2022 Issue:28 Volume:24 Page:17195-17209
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Zhao Yinuo¹,Li Wenhui¹^ORCID,Zhan Shiyuan²³,Jin Zhehui¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada

2. College of Energy, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China

3. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China

Abstract

Full atomistic ~2 nm kerogen pore throat is used to simulate water–oil two-phase displacement process. No oil adsorption layer remains on the surface. The Young–Laplace equation shows an excellent performance to predict the breakthrough pressure.

Funder

Canada First Research Excellence Fund

Compute Canada

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Western Canada Research Grid

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/CP/D2CP01643E

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