Response Surface Design for Estimating the Optimal Operating Conditions in the Polymer Flooding Process

The objective of this study is to apply experimental design for sensitivity investigation and determination of the optimum condition of operating variables in enhanced oil recovery by polymer flooding. These experiments were designed consisting of 14 cases by the D-optimal design. The maximum net pr...

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Published in:	Energy sources. Part A, Recovery, utilization, and environmental effects Vol. 37; no. 9; pp. 1012 - 1022
Main Authors:	Nguyen, H. X., Bae, W., Tran, X. V., Permadi, A. K., Taemoon, C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis 03-05-2015
Subjects:	enhanced oil recovery HPAM net present value optimization polymer flooding response surface methodology
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Summary:	The objective of this study is to apply experimental design for sensitivity investigation and determination of the optimum condition of operating variables in enhanced oil recovery by polymer flooding. These experiments were designed consisting of 14 cases by the D-optimal design. The maximum net present value is obtained at $244.94 mm, in which an optimum operating variable is injected at a polymer concentration of 1,780 ppm and slug size of 2.6 mlb under reservoir conditions. This study successfully applied optimal operating parameters in a polymer flood, which is an economical way of obtaining the maximum profit in a short period of time and with the fewest number of experiments.
ISSN:	1556-7036 1556-7230
DOI:	10.1080/15567036.2011.580331