On Using Ultrasonic-assisted Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR): Recent Practical Achievements and Future Prospects
On Using Ultrasonic-assisted Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR): Recent Practical Achievements and Future Prospects
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DOI：
10.1109/access.2018.2859774
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Meribout, Mahmoud
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作者：
Meribout, Mahmoud
提高采收率（EOR）是油气田中日益重要的过程。有几种技术已证明有能力回收大量石油。本文讨论了主要领域和实验室的发展取得了迄今为止与超声波辅助EOR以及不同的电子和机械子组件设计这样的探头。虽然在现场取得了令人鼓舞的结果，但大多数研究建议将超声波装置与化学试剂，气体或其他流体相结合，以显着提高采收率。除了用于EOR的潜力之外，强大的超声波探头在油田中还有另一个重要的应用领域，包括去除可能在井内积聚的经常性堵塞。本文还讨论了不同的相关新兴技术，这些技术已在实验室中作为原型开发，主要是在医疗领域和过程控制领域，并可能扩展到EOR应用。超声辅助EOR应该利用这些研究来扩大其现场部署。
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is an increasingly important process in oil-gas fields. Several techniques have demonstrated their capability to recover a substantial amount of oil. This paper discusses the main field and laboratories developments achieved so far with ultrasonic-assisted EOR as well as different electronics and mechanical subcomponents designs of such probes. While encouraging results were achieved in the fields, most of the studies suggest to combine the ultrasonic devices with chemical agents, gas, or other fluids to significantly enhance the efficiency of recovery. In addition of their potential for EOR, powerful ultrasonic probes have another important area of application in oil fields which consists to remove recurrent plugs that may build up within the well. The paper also addresses different related emerging technologies which have been developed as prototypes in laboratories, mainly in the areas of medical field and process control and which can be potentially extended for EOR application. Ultrasonic-assisted EOR should take advantage of these studies to potentially widen its field deployment.