2016/11/28 by Kiarash Keshmiri, Saeed Mozaffari, Keshmiri, Kiarash +7
Chemical Engineering · Chemistry · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Petroleum Processing and Analysis #Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.10163
The manuscript has been accepted in AIChE conference, 2016
arxiv created 2016/11/28 · openalex publication_date 2016/11/28 · arxiv updated 2016/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this study, capillary-driven flow of different pure liquids and diluted bitumen samples were studied using microfluidic channel (width of 30 um and depth of 9 um). Capillary filling kinetics of liquids as a function of time were evaluated and compared with theoretical predictions. For pure liquids including water, toluene, hexane, and methanol experimental results agreed well with theoretical predictions. However, for bitumen samples, as concentration of bitumen increased the deviation between theoretical and experimental results became larger. The higher deviation for high concentrations (i.e. above 30%) can be due to the difference between dynamic contact angle and bulk contact angle. Microchannels are suitable experimental devices to study the flow of heavy oil and bitumen in porous structure such as those of reservoirs.