High Pressure Foam Analyzer

Analysis of foam behavior under oil reservoir conditions

The HPFA High Pressure Foam Analyzer is the world’s only measuring instrument for simultaneously analyzing the amount and structure of liquid foams under high pressure. The instrument provides various options for investigating foam behavior under the real process conditions of foam-assisted flooding methods in EOR as well as hydraulic fracturing.

Applications

• Foam-assisted gas flooding

• Foam as fracking liquid and for fracking stimulation

Measuring methods

• Foam height and foam structure simultaneously analyzed under high pressure

Measuring results

• Maximum foam volume and liquid volume in foam at maximum

• Decay curves: total height and volume as well as foam and liquid height and volume at each measured point in time

• Time values for the reduction of liquid volume in foam and foam volume to 75% and 50% (foam half-life)

• Bubble count per mm², mean bubble size, and standard deviation

• Histogram showing bubble size distribution

• Geometrical parameters of the bubbles, expressed in different kinds of radii