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Development of scaling criteria for enhanced oil recovery: A review

Rahman et al., 2017

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4835486290018526033
Author
Rahman A
Happy F
Ahmed S
Hossain M
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Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

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Scaling criteria are used to evaluate the performance of a reservoir by deriving dimensionless groups which affect a specific enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process. The relationships among different process controlling factors are investigated in this approach by …
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