THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Muhammad Usman Tahir

,

Wei David Liu

,

Asadullah Memon

,

Hongtao Zhou

,

Imran Akbar

,

Atif Zafar

,

Ubedullah Ansari

A REVIEW STUDY ON MICRO FLUID CHIPS FOR ENHANCING THE OIL RECOVERY BY INJECTING THE CHEMICAL FLOODS

ABSTRACT
Surfactant and polymer flooding are the vital techniques used in petroleum industry to enhance the oil recovery. Development and advancement in such techniques has occurred time by time to overcome the challenges of oil and gas recovery. However, micro fluid chips and its development provide a new way to understand the real time behavior of fluid flow in porous media. The essence of this study has been achieved by collecting the information from literature studies and sorted the useful information to organize the pattern of micromodels chip revolution. In this study, first precise review is conducted by the innovations of micromodel chips into timescale from 1952 till date. Second, advancement in micromodel chip technology is included based on different periods of time where micromodel chips have evolved from chip design to nano scale visualization of chips. Third, some recommendations are proposed based on evolution of micromodel chip technology that it not only requires less time but also minimizing the massive experimental setup and complications. The overall finding of this research propose that in current times some microfluidic reforms made recently has played versatile role in improving injection chemical selection and similar improvements are expected to be developed in near future.
KEYWORDS
Chemical flooding, micro fluidic chips, enhanced oil recovery, fluid displacement, fluid visualization
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2020-06-20
PAPER REVISED: 2020-07-20
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2020-07-28
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2020-10-04
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI200620262T
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2020, VOLUME 24, ISSUE Supplement 1, PAGES [S423 - S432]
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