An Investigation of the Robustness of Physical and Numerical Vanishing Interfacial Tension Experimentation in Determining CO₂ + Crude Oil Minimum Miscibility Pressure

Table 1

List of various experimental and theoretical CO₂-crude oil MMP determination methods reported in the published literature.

(A) Experimental methods
Slim-tube test^1
Micro slim-tube test^1
Rising bubble apparatus^1
Single bubble injection technique^1
Vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) method [12]
Vapor-liquid equilibrium-interfacial tension test^1
Vapor density of injected gas versus pressure^1
High-pressure visual sapphire cell^1
PVT multicontact experiments^1
(B) Other experimental methods
Fluorescence-based microfluidic approach [20]
(C) Theoretical methods
Various empirical correlations^2,3,4
Key tie-line approach and the Method of Characteristics (MOC)^5
Mixing cell methods^5
Vanishing tie-line approach^6
Response surface based model [21]
Least-Squares Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) model [2]
Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) technique [22]
Neural network model [1]
1D slim-tube simulation models^7
Parachor models^8
Mechanistic parachor models^9
Linear gradient theory (LGT) model [19]

After methods and references given in Alomair and Garrouch [1].
^2,3,4After methods and references given in Alomair and Garrouch [1], Alomair and Iqbal [22], and Mogensen et al. [5].
⁵After methods and references given in Mogensen et al. [5].
⁶After methods and references given in Ahmadi et al. [4].
⁷After methods and references given in Mogensen et al. [5]; Bui et al. [23]; Ju et al. [24].
⁸After methods and references given in Teklu et al. [25].
⁹After methods and references given in Ayirala and Rao [14, 26]; Ashrafizadeh and Ghasrodashti [27].