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Mathematical Modeling of
Electrokinetic Transport and
Enhanced Oil Recovery In
Porous Geo-Media
Ehsan Ghazanfari and Sibel Pamukcu
5.1 Introduction
EK application for the recovery of reservoir oils has gained a lot of atten-
tion over the past decades. It has been reported to have great potential as
a viable energy resource recovery application (Amba et al., 1964; Amba
et al., 1965; Chilingar et al., 1968, 1970; Killough and Gonzalez, 1986;
Wittle et al., 2006 a,b, 2008 a,b,c, 2011; Haroun et al., 2009; Hill et al., 2010;
Ghazanfari et al., 2012a, 2012b; Al Shalabi et al., 2012; Ghazanfari, 2013).
Upon application of direct current to the reservoir, EK phenomenon is
activated near the solid-liquid interfaces inside the pores and a multi-
phase flow is generated and sustained by the EK assisted transport. Based
on the available reports, the process has emerged to have advantage as a
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