Description of an Improved Compositional Micellar/Polymer Simulator

Abstract

Summary This is one of three companion papers describing a micellar/polymer or chemical flood simulator and comparing it to experimental data. A three-dimensional version of this simulator has been developed, but in this paper we describe only the one-dimensional (1D) flow equations because we focus on comparisons with linear coreflood data and related physical properties. All physical property models are the same in both versions, however. The property models described in this paper are (1) inaccessible PV, (2) permeability reduction, (3) polymer-phase viscosity, (4) adsorption, (5) residual phase saturations as a function of capillary number, and (6) relative permeabilities.