The Effect of Temperature on Relative Permeabilities of Consolidated Sands
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- Abstract
- Over the past 20 years, a number of studies have been done to investigate the effects of temperature on relative permeability. The results of these studies have often been contradictory. It appears that experimentally measured relative permeability curves are often functions of the measurement system and measurement techniques.Dynamic displacement experiments were performed on two Brown Sandstone cores using distilled water and white mineral oil. Relative permeabilities were calculated using the Johnson, Bossler, Naumann (1959) technique. Experimental data were fit to a smooth, differentiable function in order to evaluate the required derivatives.An increase in both oil and water relative permeabilities with increasing temperature was observed for the first of the two cores. A slight decrease in both permeabilities was observed for the second core. It was determined that the functional form used to match the data was not appropriate for the second core. The effects of temperature on the first core were almost reversible, except for a slight increase in oil relative permeability and a slight increase in irreducible water saturation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | June 1988 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hagedorn, Karen D. |
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| Primary advisor | Brigham, William E. |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Petroleum Engineering |
Subjects
| Subject | School of Earth Energy & Environmental Sciences |
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| Genre | Thesis |
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- Hagedorn, Karen D. (1988). The Effect of Temperature on Relative Permeabilities of Consolidated Sands. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/wc512jh8609
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Master's Theses, Doerr School of Sustainability
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