Sentence examples for low recovery factor from inspiring English sources
It was found that the cold production case was not viable with very low recovery factor.
Such plant lay-outs allow to threat high TDS feedwater (up to 40 g/l), usually adopting very cheap membranes and operating them with a very low recovery factor.
From the results, the axi-symmetric pattern of recovery factor on an impinged surface is broken and the low recovery factor zone shifts to the downward region as the inclination angle increases.
Cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) is an effective method to recover extra heavy oil but it achieves a relatively low recovery factor (~26% before economic limit is reached) and is less energy efficient with higher emissions intensity than that of conventional oil production.
In majority of the waterflood recovery projects, fingering/channeling phenomenon is the main cause of poor sweep efficiency and low recovery factor.
Low recovery factors seem to be related to water flowing preferentially through pathways made of larger pores.
Depletion of oil and gas reservoirs is known to be accompanied with fracture closure, which is one of the reasons for notoriously low recovery factors in naturally fractured reservoirs (e.g. recovery factors down to 10 15 % in some fractured carbonates).
In this particular study, the reservoir that consists of two CU sequences has the highest oil recovery factor while the lowest recovery factor is observed in a single FU reservoir.
In addition, this method has a low oil recovery factor (5 15%) and this entails further recovery techniques.
The challenges related to production from carbonates have, as a key factor, the fact that 80% 90% of them present oil or neutral wettabilities, leading at the end to a low oil recovery factor (RF).
