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Abstract
The injection of chemical solutions plays an important role in increasing the recovery factor of mature fields. Chemical flooding is considered as an attractive alternative to conventional waterflooding; it can improve the area sweep efficiency not only at the macroscale but also in the microscale by control mobility of displaced fluid. Adsorption of polymer in reservoir rock is an extremely important parameter for chemical flooding. Adsorption represents a loss of chemical agent from solution and, consequently, a net reduction in the surfactant–polymer slug. Therefore, the efficiency of polymer flooding is significantly diminished both technically and economically. However, numerical simulation of multicomponent adsorption is still limited and adsorption processes in a polymer–rock system have not yet been well developed, especially for highly heterogeneous reservoirs. In this article, adsorption was modeled by the Langmuir isotherm theory. The simulation results indicated that polymer adsorption strongly depends on polymer concentration, shear rate, pH, salt concentration, and reservoir heterogeneity. Effective control of such parameters can reduce the effect of polymer adsorption to minimize chemical loss and improve the economic efficiency of chemical flooding processes.