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Phase behavior is vital to many petroleum and environmental processes such as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), compositional simulation, geochemical behavior, wellbore stability, geothermal energy, aquifer remediation, and multiphase flow in wellbores and in surface facilities. The study of phase behavior describes the complex interactions between separable portions of matter (called phases) that are in direct contact with each other.

The phase behavior of crude oil, water, and EOR fluids is key to the displacement mechanisms of EOR processes. Such behavior includes the two- and three-phase behavior of surfactant/brine/oil systems, the two or more phases formed in crude-oil and water-solvent systems, and the steam/oil/brine phases of thermal flooding.

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