Enhanced Oil Recovery: Wettability
1. Given the fact that the wetting process operates on a scale that extends from the macroscopic to the molecular-scale, while our observations usually involve only macroscopic quantities measured at resolutions no better than several micro-meters, is there a way, to validate the measured data on macroscopic contact angle?
Whether such measured macroscopic contact angle would remain to be the same as that of the nanoscopic local contact angles?
Whether the microscopic contact angle, deduced usually at a scale of nano-meters from the contact line – would remain to depend on the moving speed?
Can we deduce the interface profile for film thicknesses less than 100 nm – under “dynamic” fluid conditions – by using Environmental-SEM or wet-STEM or by using TEM?
2. How easy would it remain to have a control over capturing the contact line movement mechanism - associated with molecular jumping or interfacial rolling - at the junction of oil-brine-gas-phase interfaces - for a mixed/intermediate/fractional wet reservoir?
3. If (2) remains to be feasible @ laboratory-scale, then, how about capturing the regulation of the hydrodynamic singularity including slip, diffusion and disjoining pressure?