Experimental investigation of the effect of a quinoa-derived saponin-based green natural surfactant on enhanced oil recovery

Norouzpour, Milad; Nabipour, Moein; Azdarpour, Amin; Akhondzadeh, Hamed; Santos, Rafael M.; Keshavarz, Alireza

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2022.123652

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“…The finding in this study was found in line with the reported SEM analysis of soapnut powder in the literature, where a polymer-like texture was found on the surfactant . Similarly, the surfactant, extracted from quinoa, was found to exhibit a cluster-like structure, as demonstrated by the FESEM study . Therefore, variation in the surfactant structure is credited to the fact that natural surfactants are derivatives of different natural origins and they are extracted by means of different mechanical methods.…”

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“…Surfactant extraction from green origin is gaining enormous attention from the relevant scientific community due to various value addition advantages as compared to synthetic surfactants, such as being economical, widely available, environmentally friendly, and nontoxic and involving the simplest extraction process . Soxhlet apparatus has been used to extract natural surfactants from various biomass-derived sources. , Table shows brief literature findings of the synthesized natural surfactants and their potential application in EOR studies. Chhetri et al developed a natural surfactant from soapnut pericarp and used it in reducing IFT between oil and water.…”

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“…19 Soxhlet apparatus has been used to extract natural surfactants from various biomass-derived sources. 20,21 Table 1 shows brief literature findings of the synthesized natural surfactants and their potential application in EOR studies. Chhetri et al 17 developed a natural surfactant from soapnut pericarp and used it in reducing IFT between oil and water.…”

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Biosurfactant Derived from Fenugreek Seeds and Its Impact on Wettability Alteration, Oil Recovery, and Effluent Treatment of a Rock System of Mixed Composition

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Surfactant flooding is a method practiced for chemically enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to pursue oil displacement efficiency by lowering the interfacial tension and changing the wettability. However, the application of natural surfactants in oil recovery is an effective way to reduce surfactant adsorption in porous media. Thus, this study gives insight into saponin derived from fenugreek seed as a natural surfactant and utilized for oil recovery into different porous and permeable rock matrixes that consist of sandstone, carbonate, and their conjugates in varying concentrations. The natural surfactant was found to be effective at low concentrations based on its interfacial tension (IFT) value (10 mN/m at CMC 0.2 wt %). The natural surfactant solution profile exhibited shear-thinning behavior at ambient and high temperature conditions. The results of ultraviolet−visible (UV−vis) absorbance from the findings also reveal reduced adsorption on the carbonate surface and proven potential to affect the rock wettability during oil recovery. However, 58% of OOIP oil recovery was achieved in sandstone, which was higher than the recovery in carbonate rock (50% of OOIP) and conjugate rock systems (57% of OOIP). In line with this study, a novel mechanism for the treatment of effluent produced during oil recovery was found. The mechanism for effluent treatment is a combination of gravity segregation and heat treatment. Additionally, the heat treatment mechanism for effluent treatment was found to be one of the effective techniques in this study, and a maximum oil recovery of 4.2 (sandstone), 3.4 (carbonate), and 3.9 (conjugate rock) % OOIP was achieved. The findings of this study thus conclude an important outlook for surfactant flooding using natural surfactant derived from agro-products like fenugreek and highlights the potential of natural, economical, and eco-friendly surfactants.

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Biosurfactant Derived from Fenugreek Seeds and Its Impact on Wettability Alteration, Oil Recovery, and Effluent Treatment of a Rock System of Mixed Composition

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“…TGA, which was performed using TGA-Q600 SDT (Milford, CT, USA) is a technique to detect how materials behave when subjected to heat. Three milligrams of natural surfactant were poured into a crucible and heated to almost 350 °C at a rate of 10 °C/min under a nitrogen atmosphere [ 45 ].…”

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Spontaneous Imbibition Oil Recovery by Natural Surfactant/Nanofluid: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

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Organic surfactants have been utilized with different nanoparticles in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations due to the synergic mechanisms of nanofluid stabilization, wettability alteration, and oil-water interfacial tension reduction. However, investment and environmental issues are the main concerns to make the operation more practical. The present study introduces a natural and cost-effective surfactant named Azarboo for modifying the surface traits of silica nanoparticles for more efficient EOR. Surface-modified nanoparticles were synthesized by conjugating negatively charged Azarboo surfactant on positively charged amino-treated silica nanoparticles. The effect of the hybrid application of the natural surfactant and amine-modified silica nanoparticles was investigated by analysis of wettability alteration. Amine-surfactant-functionalized silica nanoparticles were found to be more effective than typical nanoparticles. Amott cell experiments showed maximum imbibition oil recovery after nine days of treatment with amine-surfactant-modified nanoparticles and fifteen days of treatment with amine-modified nanoparticles. This finding confirmed the superior potential of amine-surfactant-modified silica nanoparticles compared to amine-modified silica nanoparticles. Modeling showed that amine surfactant-treated SiO2 could change wettability from strongly oil-wet to almost strongly water-wet. In the case of amine-treated silica nanoparticles, a strongly water-wet condition was not achieved. Oil displacement experiments confirmed the better performance of amine-surfactant-treated SiO2 nanoparticles compared to amine-treated SiO2 by improving oil recovery by 15%. Overall, a synergistic effect between Azarboo surfactant and amine-modified silica nanoparticles led to wettability alteration and higher oil recovery.

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“…Surfactants are indispensable chemicals in daily life and industrial production that can significantly reduce the interfacial tension of a liquid material due to their special structure, comprising a polar head and a nonpolar tail, which provides them with both lipophilic and hydrophilic characteristics [ 1 ]. As a result of these unique features, surfactants exhibit a variety of functions such as wetting, emulsification, softening, solubilization, foaming/defoaming, rheological changes, decontamination, and surface adjustment.…”

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Synthesis and Performance of Double-Chain Quaternary Ammonium Salt Glucosamide Surfactants

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A series of double-chain quaternary ammonium salt surfactants N-[N′[3-(gluconamide)] propyl-N′-alkyl]propyl-N, N-dimethyl-N-alkyl ammonium bromide (CnDDGPB, where n represents a hydrocarbon chain length of 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16) were successfully synthesized from D (+)-glucose δ-lactone, N, N-dimethyldipropylenetriamine, and bromoalkane using a two-step method consisting of a proamine-ester reaction and postquaternization. Their surface activity, adsorption, and aggregation behavior in aqueous solution were investigated via measurements of dynamic/static surface tension, contact angle, dynamic light scattering, and transmission electron microscopy. An analysis of their application performance in terms of wettability, emulsifying properties, toxicity, and antibacterial properties was conducted. The results show that with increasing the carbon chain length of the CnDDGPB surfactants, their critical micelle concentration (CMC) increased and the pC20 and efficiency in the interface adsorption of the target product gradually decreased. Moreover, the influence of the hydrophobic carbon chain length on the surface of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) was even greater for the wetting effect, reducing the contact angle to 32° within the length range of C8–C14. The results of the contact angle change and the wettability experiments proved that C10DDGPB exhibited the best wettability. The liquid paraffin and soybean oil emulsification ability of CnDDGPB showed an upward trend followed by a downward trend with the growth of the carbon chain, with C12DDGPB exhibiting the best emulsification performance. The Dlong/Dshort ratio was far lower than 1, which indicates mixed-kinetic adsorption. The surfactants formed spherical micelles and showed a unique aggregation behavior in aqueous solution, which showed an increase–decrease–increase trend with the change in concentration. A cell toxicity and acute oral toxicity experiment showed that the CnDDGPB surfactants were less toxic than the commonly used surfactant dodecyldimethylbenzyl ammonium chloride (1227). In addition, at a concentration of 150 ppm, CnDDGPB exhibited the same bacteriostatic effect as 1227 at a concentration of 100 ppm. The results demonstrate that sugar-based amide cationic surfactants are promising as environmentally friendly disinfection products.

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Experimental investigation of the effect of a quinoa-derived saponin-based green natural surfactant on enhanced oil recovery

Cited by 39 publications

References 66 publications

Biosurfactant Derived from Fenugreek Seeds and Its Impact on Wettability Alteration, Oil Recovery, and Effluent Treatment of a Rock System of Mixed Composition

Biosurfactant Derived from Fenugreek Seeds and Its Impact on Wettability Alteration, Oil Recovery, and Effluent Treatment of a Rock System of Mixed Composition

Spontaneous Imbibition Oil Recovery by Natural Surfactant/Nanofluid: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

Synthesis and Performance of Double-Chain Quaternary Ammonium Salt Glucosamide Surfactants

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