DME is first contact miscible with oil and its partial solubility in water can be used to enhance water flooding.
For dynamic modeling and simulation of the DME enhanced water flooding processes, it is important to describe the phase behavior for DME/brine/oil systems accurately.
The aim of the project is to describe properly DME partitioning between oil and brine phases. Additionally, proper models for density and viscosity calculations are needed.
As an initial modeling study, a literature survey on literature data will be made. Relevant thermodynamic models will be evaluated and some selected models will be used to describe the existing data in the literature and the data to be measured in the CERE lab.
The activity will be an important tool during planning and interpretation of the core flooding experiments.