Immiscible liquid-liquid displacement in capillary tubes: viscoelastic effects

AUTOR(ES)

Soares, Edson José, Mendes, Paulo R. de Souza, Carvalho, Márcio da S.

FONTE

Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008-06

RESUMO

The displacement of a fluid by liquid injection occurs in some practical applications like oil recovery in porous media and cementation of drilling wells. The dimensionless numbers that govern this problem are the capillary number, Reynolds number and viscosity ratio. An overview of selected oil recovery processes shows that hydrolyzed polyacrilamide and bio-polymers, as xanthan gun, are commonly pumped into oil reservoir in order to aid oil recovery. These materials are non-Newtonian, presenting high viscoelastic effects. The fractional mass deposited on the tube wall and the shape of the interface on liquid-liquid displacement of two Newtonian materials was studied previously by Soares et al. (2005). The goal of the present work is to conduct an experimental investigation analyzing viscoelastic effects on the fractional coverage and on the shape of the interface for both: a polymer displacing a Newtonian liquid and a Newtonian liquid displacing a polymer.

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