Determination of Minimum Miscibility Pressure of CO2–Oil System: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
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| Authors: | Ding Li Shuixiang Xie Xiangliang Li Yinghua Zhang Heng Zhang Shiling Yuan |
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| Institution: | 1.State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Pollution Control, CNPC Research Institute of Safety & Environment Technology, Beijing 100000, China; (D.L.); (S.X.);2.Key Lab of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China;3.Shengli Oil Field Exploration and Development Research Institute, Dongying 257000, China; (X.L.); (Y.Z.) |
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| Abstract: | CO2 enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) has become significantly crucial to the petroleum industry, in particular, CO2 miscible flooding can greatly improve the efficiency of EOR. Minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is a vital factor affecting CO2 flooding, which determines the yield and economic benefit of oil recovery. Therefore, it is important to predict this property for a successful field development plan. In this study, a novel model based on molecular dynamics to determine MMP was developed. The model characterized a miscible state by calculating the ratio of CO2 and crude oil atoms that pass through the initial interface. The whole process was not affected by other external objective factors. We compared our model with several famous empirical correlations, and obtained satisfactory results—the relative errors were 8.53% and 13.71% for the two equations derived from our model. Furthermore, we found the MMPs predicted by different reference materials (i.e., CO2/crude oil) were approximately linear (R2 = 0.955). We also confirmed the linear relationship between MMP and reservoir temperature (TR). The correlation coefficient was about 0.15 MPa/K in the present study. |
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| Keywords: | minimum miscible pressure CO2 enhanced oil recovery molecular dynamics |
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