The problem of filtration of liquid aerosols by both wettable and nonwettable filters has been extensively studied and the results of the theoretical calculations together with the experimental results are presented. More realistic models of filtration by both wettable and nonwettable filters have been developed and verified experimentally. A new instrument has been developed, and used in the experiments, for the measurement of the absolute concentration of aerosols in the gas stream. This instrument is based on the measurement of the initial vapour content of the gas stream simultaneously with the measurement of the vapour content after the total evaporation of aerosol. The concentration of the aerosol is calculated as the difference between these two values. The instrument was developed to provide fast and accurate measurements of aerosol concentration. The main advantages of the instrument are: high accuracy, simplicity of measurement, possibility of use for a wide range of substances, perfect suitability of operation for automatic monitoring technologies, etc. All rights for this instrument have been reserved and the fully automatic version will be available in the near future. It was found that the efficiency of filtration of aerosol on the wettable filter depends on the thickness of the liquid film on the fibre. This parameter was taken into account in the development of a theoretical model of filtration on wettable fibrous filters. The particle breakthrough problem has been solved by the optimisation of the aspect ratio (the ratio of the height by width) of the wettable filter. On this basis, industrial devices have been developed, patented, and implemented in industry. These devices provide a stable operating efficiency of higher than 99%. It was found experimentally that the efficiency of filtration of aerosol on the nonwettable filter depends on the diameter of the drop suspended on the filter, and on the area of the filter blocked by drops: this influences the velocity of filtration. All these parameters were taken into account in the development of a theoretical model of filtration on nonwettable fibrous filters. On the basis of this model, satisfactorily verified by the experiments, an industrial device has been developed. The harnessing of atomisers makes it possible to maintain the efficiency of filtration higher than 99%, even with a relatively high velocity of filtration of 2.7m/s. The new technology is tackling the problem of handling huge amounts of exhaust gases and this is particularly important for cramped installations when the space available for the air pollution control technology is quite limited. A highly efficient gas cleaning technology has been developed. This technology is based on combining two stages (wet scrubber and filter) of currently utilised air pollution control devices by submerging the fibrous filter into the liquid on the plate. The new device provides an effective division of the main gas stream into ultra-small bubbles which increase the contact area between the gas and liquid phases. It was estimated theoretically and verified experimentally that the efficiency of the proposed 'combined' technology, is 45% higher than the efficiency of the two stages technology. The technology has been patented and will be offered for industrial implementation in the near future.

L'injection de tensioactifs est une méthode très appliquée dans le domaine de la récupération améliorée des hydrocarbures. Cependant, son efficacité repose sur la capacité de ces agents chimiques à mobiliser l'huile résiduelle en diminuant la tension interfaciale entre l'huile et l'eau. Des modèles à l'échelle du réservoir calculent l'efficacité de la récupération d'huile résiduelle par injection de solutions contenant des tensioactifs. Les mécanismes physiques pris en compte dans les modélisations font intervenir la physico-chimie du système roche-fluide et une courbe globale donnant la saturation résiduelle en huile en fonction du nombre capillaire (courbe de désaturation capillaire). Cette donnée est majeure dans le calcul de l'efficacité de récupération d'huile par injection de solutions de tensioactifs. En effet la mobilisation de l'huile résiduelle laissée en place après injection d'eau n'est possible qu'en augmentant considérablement le nombre capillaire. La prédiction de l'efficacité d'un procédé chimique de récupération passe par la compréhension, à l'échelle du pore, du processus de mobilisation des ganglions d'huile suivant la structure poreuse et le nombre capillaire. L'objet de cette thèse est de caractériser la récupération d'huile tertiaire en fonction du nombre capillaire dans diverses roches mouillables à l'eau. Ces courbes permettront de quantifier l'effet de la microstructure, les hétérogénéités du milieu poreux et diverses propriétés pétrophysiques sur la récupération d'huile. Cette thèse permettra aussi de caractériser les différents mécanismes d'action de tensioactifs sur la mobilisation d'huile résiduelle dans le milieu poreux. L'expérimentation par tomographie RX est utilisée. La tomographie RX permettra de caractériser les courbes de désaturation capillaire à l'échelle de Darcy et visualiser localement le déplacement d'huile résiduelle à travers les milieux poreux. Des essais d'écoulement diphasique sous micro-CT permettront d'observer in-situ et d'étudier les interfaces eau/huile et leurs évolutions en 3D au sein du milieu poreux en fonction du nombre capillaire. / Oil recovery by surfactant injection is related to oil-water interfacial tension and rock properties through the capillary number. In the modeling of oil recovery by surfactant injection, fluid flow physical mechanisms are represented through the capillary desaturation curve (CDC). This curve is central in the evaluation of oil recovery efficiency. In order to mobilize residual oil trapped after waterflooding by capillary forces, chemical EOR rely on increasing capillary number to extremely high values. The mechanisms governing oil release can be described at the pore scale where the balance of capillary and viscous forces is achieved. This description will help to predict the efficiency of surfactant based EOR processes by taking into account the porous geometry and topology, the physico-chemical properties of the fluids and the different phase interaction. The objective of this work is to characterize capillary desaturation curves for various strongly water-wet sandstones. These curves will be used to study the relationship between tertiary oil recovery and the pore structure, porous media heterogeneity and petrophysicals properties. The other aim of this work is to map the different mechanisms of oil recovery by surfactant injection. Experiments under X-Ray tomography are proposed. X-Ray tomography will be applied to characterize capillary desaturation curve at Darcy scale and to visualise the two phase flow saturation after injection. Pore scale experiments based on X-Ray micro-tomography imaging are performed to describe the different mechanisms of oil mobilization.