Displacement of oil by different interfacial tension fluids under ultrasonic waves

Hamida, Tarek; Babadagli, Tayfun

doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2007.09.012

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“…Among these practical studies, It has been found that ultrasonic waves may increase the solubility of surfactants in oil which in turn will lead to a decrease of the interfacial tension [12,13]. Miscible experiments have also been conducted and found that ultrasonic waves enhance the molecular diffusion at low water injection rates leading to an adequate EOR [8]. In [14], researchers performed experimental studies of ultrasound application to oil saturated unconsolidated sand packs proving the improvement in cumulative oil recovery as well as oil production.…”

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“…Among the typically used frequencies, it has been reported that ultrasonic waves with a resonant frequency of 20 kHz can only penetrate up to 2-10 cm depth. Increasing this value beyond 20 kHz will further reduce the penetration depth [8]. Nevertheless, the effect of ultrasonic waves for wider areas gradually takes place after a specific amount of time.…”

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“…Several studies have been reported for the use of ultrasonic waves for EOR [4,6,[8][9][10][11]. Different papers have addressed different parameters of EOR e.g., change in viscosity, permeability, pressure, temperature and interfacial tension while considering different type of fluids and ultrasonic sources.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some works in this area have already been reported in the literature [4,6,[8][9][10][11]. However, most of them are provided by researchers with petroleum engineering background.…”

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An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

Mohsin¹,

Meribout²

2015

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

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This paper suggests a new ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) model for application in oil field reservoirs. The model is modular and consists of an acoustic module and a heat transfer module, where the heat distribution is updated when the temperature rise exceeds 1 °C. The model also considers the main EOR parameters which includes both the geophysical (i.e., porosity, permeability, temperature rise, and fluid viscosity) and acoustical (e.g., acoustic penetration and pressure distribution in various fluids and mediums) properties of the wells. Extended experiments were performed using powerful ultrasonic waves which were applied for different kind of oils & oil saturated core samples. The corresponding results showed a good matching with those obtained from simulations, validating the suggested model to some extent. Hence, a good recovery rate of around 88.2% of original oil in place (OOIP) was obtained after 30 min of continuous generation of ultrasonic waves. This leads to consider the ultrasonic-based EOR as another tangible solution for EOR. This claim is supported further by considering several injection wells where the simulation results indicate that with four (4) injection wells; the recovery rate may increase up-to 96.7% of OOIP. This leads to claim the high potential of ultrasonic-based EOR as compared to the conventional methods. Following this study, the paper also proposes a large scale ultrasonic-based EOR hardware system for installation in oil fields.

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Section: Literature Surveymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Technical Background and Hardware Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Literature Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some works in this area have already been reported in the literature [4,6,[8][9][10][11]. However, most of them are provided by researchers with petroleum engineering background.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

Mohsin¹,

Meribout²

2015

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

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“…More recently, a series of laboratory experiments was conducted by Hamida and Babadagli [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] to investigate the effect of ultrasound on capillary imbibition recovery of oil. In one experiment [12], they showed that the final recovery and recovery rate increased with regard to the type of fluid and matrix fracture interaction.…”

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Effect of ultrasound radiation duration on emulsification and demulsification of paraffin oil and surfactant solution/brine using Hele-shaw models

Hamidi

Mohammadian

Asadullah

et al. 2015

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

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Ultrasound technique is one of the unconventional enhanced oil recovery methods which has been of interest for more than six decades. However, the majority of the oil recovery mechanisms under ultrasound reported in the previous studies are theoretical. Emulsification is one of the mechanisms happening at the interface of oil and water in porous media under ultrasound. Oppositely, ultrasound is one of the techniques using in oil industry for demulsification of oil/water emulsion. Therefore, the conditions in which emulsification becomes dominant over demulsification under ultrasound should be more investigated. Duration of ultrasound radiation could be one of the factors affecting emulsification and demulsification processes. In this study a technique was developed to investigate the effect of long and short period of ultrasound radiation on emulsification and demulsification of paraffin oil and surfactant solution in porous media. For this purpose, the 2D glass Hele-shaw models were placed inside the ultrasonic bath under long and short period of radiation of ultrasound. A microscope was used above the model for microscopic studies on the interface of oil and water. Diffusion of phases and formation of emulsion were observed in both long and short period of application of ultrasound at the beginning of ultrasound radiation. However, by passing time, demulsification and coalescence of brine droplets inside emulsion was initiated in long period of ultrasound application. Therefore, it was concluded that emulsification could be one of the significant oil recovery mechanisms happening in porous media under short period of application of ultrasound.

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Vapor‐Deposited Janus Membranes with Fouling Resistance for Desalination of Oil‐Contaminated Wastewater

Zhu

Mao

2021

Adv Materials Inter

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However, the hydrophobicity of conventional MD membranes makes them vulnerable to fouling when treating saline water containing organic compounds. [5] Taking the produced water as an example, total dissolved organic carbon up to 5 g L −1 has been reported. [6] The organic contaminants not only block membrane pores, but also lead to membrane wetting by the low-surface-tension compounds, resulting in the reduction of both permeate flux and desalination efficiency during MD operations. [5b] To alleviate the fouling problem, surfaces with ultralow surface energy were constructed to repel both water and lowsurface-tension compounds. [2b,7] The omniphobicity prevented membrane from oil fouling when treating feed solution with 10 mg L −1 oil. [8] However, the permeate flux of the omniphobic membranes declined as oil concentration increased to 80 mg L −1 , [9] indicating the limitation in improving MD fouling resistance by merely reducing membrane surface energy.Membranes with the combination of hydrophilic surface and hydrophobic structure present the advantage of repelling oil foulants while maintaining the wetting resistance. [10] Such Janus membranes have been directly fabricated by forming layers with opposite wettability via sequential electrospinning [11] or postcasting phase separation, [12] but materials available for direct asymmetric fabrication were quite limited. Asymmetric modification of the hydrophobic MD membranes has been studied as an alternative for the preparation of Janus membranes. A variety of hydrophilic polymers, including chitosan, [13] polydopamine, [14] polyvinyl alcohol, [15] and zwitterionic polymers, [16] were selectively processed onto MD membranes using solvent-based methods such as spray-and dip-coating. Chemical reaction in alkaline solution has also been reported to introduce hydrophilicity to the MD membrane surface. [17] Despite these advances, several challenges remained in the asymmetric modification of MD membranes. The hydrophilic modification usually required polymer preparation and/or processing in various solvents for long periods of time, [14,16] and post-treatments were often needed to remove the solvent residue and cure the coatings. [11][12][13][14] In addition, the conflicting wettability of hydrophilic and hydrophobic components made the solvent-based methods less effective and resulted in poor interfacial compatibility. [18] To facilitate the attaching of hydrophilic coatings onto the liquid-repelling hydrophobic structure, protocols such as plasma activation, [16] chemical modification, [19] Janus membranes with excellent fouling resistance and mass transport properties are highly desired to improve the performance and efficiency in the treatment of oil-contaminated wastewater. The fabrication of Janus membranes requires control of both the membrane microstructure and the interfacial compatibility between distinct components. This work presents a vapor-based strategy to incorporate Janus property into porous substrates without the wetting incompatibility in solut...

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Displacement of oil by different interfacial tension fluids under ultrasonic waves

Cited by 35 publications

References 30 publications

An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

An extended model for ultrasonic-based enhanced oil recovery with experimental validation

Effect of ultrasound radiation duration on emulsification and demulsification of paraffin oil and surfactant solution/brine using Hele-shaw models

Vapor‐Deposited Janus Membranes with Fouling Resistance for Desalination of Oil‐Contaminated Wastewater

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