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Conventional Polymer flooding is considered the most promising chemical-enhanced oil recovery by reducing water mobility, and hence increasing the sweep efficiency. However, there are certain drawbacks associated with polymer flooding as the degradation of its molecular structure in severe reservoir environments. Recently, it is experimentally adopted that attachment of nanoparticles (NPs) toward polymer macromolecule may ameliorate the flooding performance and hence increase the oil recovery further than conventional polymer flooding. The potential of NPs assisted polymer flooding has been extensively studied in porous media through core flooding. The target of this work is to statistically scrutinize the previous core flooding experiments and investigate the parameters that affect the incremental oil recovery by NPs assisted polymer flooding. To accomplish this target, a robust investigation of the outcome of over 350 core-flood tests from the literature was gathered to investigate the impacts of rock-oil properties, flooding conditions, polymer, and NPs characteristics on incremental oil recovery. Additionally, Fractional factorial design (FFD) was used to analyze core flood res

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Author

Khalaf G. Salem; Mahmoud A. Tantawy; Ahmed A. Gawish; Sayed Gomaa; A.N. El-hoshoudy

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)