Jestril EBAGA OLOLO

Mr. Jestril EBAGA OLOLO

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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

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1 July 2017 in Energies
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JOJestril EBAGA OLOLO
Jestril EBAGA OLOLO
BCBohyun Chon
Bohyun Chon
Many previous contributions to methods of forecasting the performance of polymer flooding using artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been made by numerous researchers previously. In most of those forecasting cases, only a single polymer slug was employed to meet the objective of the study. The intent of this manuscript is to propose an efficient recovery factor prediction tool at different injection stages of two polymer slugs during polymer flooding using an ANN. In this regard, a back-propagation algorithm was coupled with six input parameters to predict three output parameters via a hidden layer composed of 10 neurons. Evaluation of the ANN model performance was made with multiple linear regression. With an acceptable correlation coefficient, the proposed ANN tool was able to predict the recovery factor with errors of <1%. In addition, to understand the influence of each parameter on the output parameters, a sensitivity analysis was applied to the input parameters. The results showed less impact from the second polymer concentration, owing to changes in permeability after the injection of the first polymer slug.