Abstract:

Movie file showing the mobilization of crude in a miniature packed bed. Optical microscopy was used to visualize the flow of two phases [British Petroleum (BP) oil and an aqueous surfactant phase] in confined space, three-dimensional, transparent, natural porous media. The porous media consisted of water-wet cryolite grains packed inside cylindrical, glass microchannels, thus producing microscopic packed beds. The conditions in the film are: Continuous Phase: 0.001mol/L Tween80 aqueous solution; Frame rate: 24fps; Dispersed phase: Crude oil; Flow rate: 0.01ml/min.Data supporitng PHYSICAL REVIEW E 86, 046313 (2012) "Visualization and quantification of two-phase flow in transparent miniature packed beds" by Peixi Zhu and Kyriakos D. Papadopoulos. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.046313.

Suggested Citation:

Papadopoulos, Kyriakos. 2016. Dataset for: Visualization and quantification of two-phase flow in transparent miniature packed beds: mobilization of crude oil.. Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7MP518S

Publications:

Zhu, P., & Papadopoulos, K. D. (2012). Visualization and quantification of two-phase flow in transparent miniature packed beds. Phys. Rev. E, 86(4). doi:10.1103/physreve.86.046313

Purpose:

Optical microscopy was used to visualize the flow of British Petroleum (BP) oil and an aqueous surfactant phase in packed beds. The porous media consisted of water-wet cryolite grains packed inside cylindrical, glass microchannels, thus producing microscopic packed beds. Primary drainage of BP oil displacing an aqueous surfactant phase was studied at capillary numbers that varied between 10−6 and 10−2. The confinement of space had a significant effect on the flow behavior. Phenomena of burst motion and capillary fingering were observed for low capillary numbers due to the domination of capillary forces. It was discovered that breakthrough time and capillary number bear a log-log scale linear relationship, which empirically produced a generalized correlation between oil travel distance x and time t.

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Movie file showing the mobilization of crude in a miniature packed bed

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