The influence of pore wettability on the microstructure of residual oil in surfactant-enhanced water flooding in heavy oil reservoirs: Implications for pore-scale flow characterization

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The influence of pore wettability on the microstructure of residual oil in surfactant-enhanced water flooding in heavy oil reservoirs: Implications for pore-scale flow characterization. / Yadali Jamaloei, Benyamin; Kharrat, Riyaz; Asghari, Koorosh et al.
In: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 77, No. 1, 04.2011, p. 121-134.

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title = "The influence of pore wettability on the microstructure of residual oil in surfactant-enhanced water flooding in heavy oil reservoirs: Implications for pore-scale flow characterization",
keywords = "Blob population statistics, Blob size, Heavy oil recovery, Micromodel, Mobilization capillary number, Pore-scale Weber number, Surfactant waterflooding, Wettability",
author = "{Yadali Jamaloei}, Benyamin and Riyaz Kharrat and Koorosh Asghari and Farshid Torabi",
note = "Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the support provided by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre , Regina, Canada. Also, the first author thanks the Petroleum Research Center at the Petroleum University of Technology, Tehran, for providing the laboratory facilities and the Research and Development Directorate of the National Iranian Oil Company for the financial support in conducting the experimental part of this research. We are also indebted to anonymous reviewers and editor whose critical comments helped in enhancing the clarity of the results. With kind permission from Springer Science + Business Media: < Transport in Porous Media, Analysis of microscopic displacement mechanisms of dilute surfactant flooding in oil-wet and water-wet porous media, 81, 1, 2010, 1–19, Benyamin Yadali Jamaloei and Riyaz Kharrat, Figs. 5 and 8 . ",
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T1 - The influence of pore wettability on the microstructure of residual oil in surfactant-enhanced water flooding in heavy oil reservoirs

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AU - Yadali Jamaloei, Benyamin

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AU - Asghari, Koorosh

AU - Torabi, Farshid

N1 - Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the support provided by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre , Regina, Canada. Also, the first author thanks the Petroleum Research Center at the Petroleum University of Technology, Tehran, for providing the laboratory facilities and the Research and Development Directorate of the National Iranian Oil Company for the financial support in conducting the experimental part of this research. We are also indebted to anonymous reviewers and editor whose critical comments helped in enhancing the clarity of the results. With kind permission from Springer Science + Business Media: < Transport in Porous Media, Analysis of microscopic displacement mechanisms of dilute surfactant flooding in oil-wet and water-wet porous media, 81, 1, 2010, 1–19, Benyamin Yadali Jamaloei and Riyaz Kharrat, Figs. 5 and 8 .

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