Characterizing the complicated flow behaviors arising from high water cut and low velocity oil-water flows is an important problem of significant challenge. We design a high-speed cycle motivation conductance sensor and carry out experiments for measuring the local flow information from different oil-in-water flow patterns. We first use multivariate time-frequency analysis to probe the typical ...

Solutions of 4-hydroxy-TEMPO(TANOL) in water and water-soyabean oil were investigated in the concentration range 0.1 mM-10mM. Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) and electronic relaxation time Tle measurements were performed at each well resolved hyperfine line. In the TANOL/water-soyabean oil solutions, the effect of the presence of soyabean oil was an increase in the measured relaxation rates ...

Small well spacing tests were carried out in three and four zones of the transitional zone to solve problems poor effect water flooding low reserves utilization. In order improve drive development Area A, two test area a have been reopened utilized, pattern is changed from anti-nine-point method five-point method. Through strengthening tracking adjustment oil wells, variation law production cut...

This paper presents findings from a 2-year field investigation of a dissolved hydrocarbon groundwater plume flowing towards a tidally and seasonally forced estuarine river system in Perth, Western Australia. Samples collected from transects of multiport wells along the riverbank and into the river, enabled mapping of the fine scale (0.5 m) vertical definition of the hydrocarbon plume and its lo...

In this work, feasibility of flow pattern and oil holdup prediction for vertical upward oil–water two–phase flow using pressure fluctuation signals was experimentally investigated. Water and diesel fuel were selected as immiscible liquids. Oil holdup was measured by Quick Closing Valve (QCV) technique, and five flow patterns were identified using high speed photography through a transparent tes...

Food-grade microemulsions containing oleic acid, ethanol, Tween 20, and water were formulated as a carrier system for tea seed oil (Camellia oleifera Abel.). The effect of ethanol on the phase behavior of the microemulsion system was clearly reflected in pseudo-ternary diagrams. The solubilization capacity and solubilization efficiency of tea seed oil dispersions were measured along the dilutio...

We consider the condensation transition of microemulsion droplets of oil which are dispersed in water in the presence of surfactant. Since a macroscopic oil phase is formed due to this transition, it is called "emulsification failure." Based on the free energy approach, we determine the transition lines between the spherical and the cylindrical droplet phases as well as the phase boundary lines...

Observations of P-to-S conversions from the seismic discontinuities near 410 and 660 km depth reveal the shoaling of the 410-km discontinuity and the deepening of the 660-km discontinuity beneath the Archaean cratons in southern Africa; consequently, the mantle transition zone is 20 km thicker than beneath post-Archaean regions and the global average. The discontinuity structure, combined with ...

During tertiary miscible gas injection direct contact between gas and oil can be prevented by water surrounding residual oil. The principal aim of our study is to assess the importance of this waterblocking phenomenon in multicomponent gas injection. We study this process using a multicomponent porescale model. Light components in the gas dissolve in the water and diffuse through the water to r...