TY - JOUR
TI - A review study on micro fluid chips for enhancing the oil recovery by injecting the chemical floods
AU - Tahir Muhammad Usman
AU - Liu Wei David
AU - Memon Asadullah
AU - Zhou Hongtao
AU - Akbar Imran
AU - Zafar Atif
AU - Ansari Ubedullah
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2020
VL - 24
IS - 11
SP - 423
EP - 432
PT - Article
AB - 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.