An oil-tolerant and salt-resistant aqueous foam system for heavy oil transportation

Jie Sun; Jiaqiang Jing; Neima Brauner; Li Han; Amos Ullmann

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.68, 99-108, December, 2018

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2018.07.033 Export Citation

An oil-tolerant and salt-resistant aqueous foam system for heavy oil transportation

Jie Sun^{1, 2}, Jiaqiang Jing^{1, 3, †}, Neima Brauner², Li Han⁴, and Amos Ullmann²

¹School of Oil & Natural Gas Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500 China
²Department of Fluid Mechanics, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
³Oil & Gas Fire Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611731, China
⁴Engineering Technology Research Institute, Xinjiang Oilfield Company, Karamay 834000, China

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An oil-tolerant and salt-resistant aqueous foam system was screened out as a possible lubricant to enable cold heavy oil transportation. The microstructures and viscoelasticity and effects of heavy oil, salt and temperature on the foam stability were investigated and new rheological and drainage models were established. The results indicate the foam with multilayered shells belongs to a special microcellular foam. The viscoelasticity could be neglected due to its low relaxation time. The drainage process can be divided into three stages. The foam with quality of 67.9% maintains great stability at high oil and salt concentrations and appropriate elevated temperature.

Keywords:Aqueous foam;Microstructure;Rheology;Drainage;Oil-tolerance and salt-resistance

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