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  title info:
    title: Enhanced Oil Recovery of Viscous Oil by Injection of Water-in-Oil Emulsion Made with Used Engine Oil
  name:
    name part: Fu, Xuebing
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lane, Robert H.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Solids-stabilized water-in-oil emulsions have been suggested as a drive fluid to recover viscous oil through a piston-like displacement pattern. While crude heavy oil was initially suggested as the base oil, an alternative oil -- used engine oil was proposed for emulsion generation because of several key advantages: more favorable viscosity that results in better emulsion injectivity, soot particles within the oil that readily promote stable emulsions, almost no cost of the oil itself and relatively large supply, and potential solution of used engine oil disposal. In this research, different types of used engine oil (mineral based, synthetic) were tested to make W/O emulsions simply by blending in brine. A series of stable emulsions was prepared with varied water contents from 40~70%. Viscosities of these emulsions were measured, ranging from 10²~10⁴ cp at low shear rates and ambient temperature. Then an emulsion made of 40% used engine oil and 60% brine was chosen for a series of coreflood experiments, to test the stability of this emulsion while flowing through porous media. Limited breakdown of the effluent was observed at ambient injection rates, indicating a stability of the emulsion in porous media. Pressure drops leveled off and remained constant at constant rate of injection, indicating steady-state flows under the experimental conditions. No plug off effect was observed after a large volume of emulsion passed through the cores. Reservoir scale simulations were conducted for the emulsion flooding process based on the emulsion properties tested from the experiments. Results showed significant improvement in both displacement pattern and oil recovery especially compared to water flooding. Economics calculations of emulsion flooding were also performed, suggesting this process to be highly profitable. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148066
  note: by Xuebing Fu.
  note: "Major Subject: Petroleum Engineering"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148066
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Petroleum Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Used Engine Oil
  subject:
    topic: Emulsion
  subject:
    topic: EOR
  subject:
    topic: Heavy Oil
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148066
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 131217
    record change date: 20151206090640.0
    record identifier: in00003423764
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng