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Microfluidic Fabrication Techniques for High-Pressure Testing of Microscale Supercritical CO2 Foam Transport in Fractured Unconventional Reservoirs
Published on: July 2, 2020
Investigation of carbon dioxide modified supercritical and near supercritical carrier streams for flow injection
R E Malick1, J G Dorsey, T L Chester
1Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172, U.S.A.
Abstract:
Since flow injection (FI) is a dilution technique, efforts have been undertaken to minimize online dilution or dispersion. Solutes in supercritical fluids exhibit increased diffusion coefficients which have been shown to decrease dispersion of the sample zone. This work investigates the use of supercritical fluids (or CO(2) modified fluids) as carrier streams for FI. Both a non-reacting tracer and an online chemical reaction were employed to investigate the behavior of solutes in supercritical and near critical systems. Further, these results are compared to those obtained in the system studied with a conventional carrier stream. Plots of peak response vs% CO(2) modifier increase with a sharp break at moderate modifier composition (20-30%). Plots of peak variance vs% CO(2) modifier show decreased variance with increasing % modifier. The system was also optimized with regards to temperature and pressure. The optimized system displayed improved limits of detection and decreased variance relative to 0% CO(2) modifier carrier streams.
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