Porous chemical processes enhancement

In chap 11 an overview of the basic designs, principles of operation, and modeling of fixed packed bed reactors is presented. The basic theory is applied to describe the performance of particular chemical processes operated in fixed packed bed reactors. That is, porous media reactive flow model simulations of particular packed bed sorption enhanced steam reforming processes are assessed. 

Alkaline flooding (AF) is a chemical process used in the Petroleum Industry to remove oil from pore walls and to mobilize the mechanically entrapped oil globules or ganglia in porous media. Among all the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes, the AF is one of the most complicated and least understood due to its complex oil recovery mechanisms. 

Miscible Recovery. Oil and water do not mix and they do not flow with equal facility through a porous rock. Over the years, many miscible flood processes have been tested, the most successful of which have been (1) hydrocarbon misdble recovery (2) carbon dioxide miscible flooding and (3) chemically enhanced recovery. 

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