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Designing an optimal process for chemically enhanced oil recovery requires long laboratory experiments, so numerical simulators have been used for some years, which take into account the various physical phenomena involved.
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Prouvost, L., Pope, G.A. (1986). Modelling of Phase Behavior of Micellar Systems Used for Enhanced Oil Recovery. In: Mittal, K.L., Bothorel, P. (eds) Surfactants in Solution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1831-6_38
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