Nanofluid enhanced oil recovery using induced ZnO nanocrystals by electromagnetic energy: Viscosity increment

Alnarabiji, Mohamad Sahban; Yahya, Noorhana; Nadeem, Saad; Adil, Muhammad; Baig, Mirza Khurram; Ghanem, Ouahid Ben; Azizi, Khairun; Ahmed, Shehzad; Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír; Elraies, Khaled Abdalla

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2018.06.068

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“…The economical oil recovery from known reservoirs initially takes place by primary and secondary recovery processes, which contribute to recovering one-third of the original oil in place (OOIP). Meanwhile, around 60% of the OOIP remains trapped in oil reservoirs [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] . Despite the current dire economic situation due to the impact of COVID-19 on energy consumption, the future high demand for energy imposes the need of additional recovery from the remaining crude oil in mature fields, which is targeted by Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] .…”

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Experimental investigation, binary modelling and artificial neural network prediction of surfactant adsorption for enhanced oil recovery application

Belhaj

Elraies

Alnarabiji

et al. 2021

Chemical Engineering Journal

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Experimental investigation, binary modelling and artificial neural network prediction of surfactant adsorption for enhanced oil recovery application

Belhaj

Elraies

Alnarabiji

et al. 2021

Chemical Engineering Journal

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“…Another way to employ Al 2 O 3 -NPs in EOR processes is by utilizing the electrorheological properties of solid particles suspensions (called electrorheological fluids), such that its rheology will be altered under the presence of electric field [ 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ]. Ahmad Latiff et al demonstrated an increase of more than 30% in oil recovery with alumina NFs [ 30 ].…”

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“…The study showed an improvement in the oil production by 9–22% as a tertiary recovery process. Another study demonstrated the capability of EM field to improve the viscosity of the ZnO-NFs injected into the porous medium, thus improving the oil recovery by 23.3% through the electrorheological (ER) effect of the activated ZnO NPs [ 29 ]. Our previous work [ 35 ] had proposed electromagnetic-assisted nano-EOR that demonstrated an incremental oil recovery of 9–13% original oil in place (OOIP) for 0.1 wt.…”

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Role of Phase-Dependent Dielectric Properties of Alumina Nanoparticles in Electromagnetic-Assisted Enhanced Oil Recovery

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The utilization of metal-oxide nanoparticles in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has generated considerable research interest to increase the oil recovery. Among these nanoparticles, alumina nanoparticles (Al2O3-NPs) have proved promising in improving the oil recovery mechanism due to their prominent thermal properties. However, more significantly, these nanoparticles, coupled with electromagnetic (EM) waves, can be polarized to reduce water/oil mobility ratio and create disturbances at the oil/nanofluid interface, so that oil can be released from the reservoir rock surfaces and travelled easily to the production well. Moreover, alumina exists in various transition phases (γ, δ, θ, κ, β, η, χ), providing not only different sizes and morphologies but phase-dependent dielectric behavior at the applied EM frequencies. In this research, the oil recovery mechanism under EM fields of varying frequencies was investigated, which involved parameters such as mobility ratio, interfacial tension (IFT) and wettability. The displacement tests were conducted in water-wet sandpacks at 95 °C, by employing crude oil from Tapis. Alumina nanofluids (Al2O3-NFs) of four different phases (α, κ, θ and γ) and particle sizes (25–94.3 nm) were prepared by dispersing 0.01 wt. % NPs in brine (3 wt. % NaCl) together with SDBS as a dispersant. Three sequential injection scenarios were performed in each flooding scheme: (i) preflushes brine as a secondary flooding, (ii) conventional nano/EM-assisted nanofluid flooding, and (iii) postflushes brine to flush NPs. Compared to conventional nanofluid flooding (3.03–11.46% original oil in place/OOIP) as incremental oil recovery, EM-assisted nanofluid flooding provided an increase in oil recovery by approximately 4.12–12.90% of OOIP for different phases of alumina. It was established from these results that the recovery from EM-assisted nanofluid flooding is itself dependent on frequency, which is associated with good dielectric behavior of NPs to formulate the oil recovery mechanism including (i) mobility ratio improvement due to an electrorheological (ER) effect, (ii) interfacial disturbances by the oil droplet deformation, and (iii) wettability alteration by increased surface-free energy.

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“…Hence, magnetic nanofluid composed of brine and Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles is used in this study due to the remarkable magnetic properties of the Fe 3 O 4 such as high saturation magnetization. EM wave has also been applied in EOR, with and without nanofluid injection, to improve recovery from residual phase [19][20][21].…”

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Experimental investigation of resonant frequency of sandstone saturated with magnetite nanofluid

Wahaab

Adebayo

Ali

et al. 2020

Journal of Taibah University for Science

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Electromagnetic wave is a viable means of introducing energy into reservoirs for the recovery of residual oil. However, previous studies have not considered the precise frequency of the electromagnetic (EM) wave. These studies focused on EM heating, not considering the efficiency dependence of EM transmitter and EM propagation on the EM properties of the medium. Thus, sandstone effective permittivity was experimentally measured, and electrical conductivity calculated for different saturation stages encountered in the nanofluid enhanced oil recovery process. The effective permittivity at the resonant frequency of the sandstone increased from 10.94 to 19.1 with a simultaneous frequency shift from 1.2 to 0.6 GHz due to the inclusion of magnetite nanofluid. This implies that the maximum transfer of EM energy for stimulation and activation of injected nanofluid can be achieved by irradiating the EM wave of this frequency within the reservoir for mobilization of the residual oil.

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Nanofluid enhanced oil recovery using induced ZnO nanocrystals by electromagnetic energy: Viscosity increment

Cited by 59 publications

References 49 publications

Experimental investigation, binary modelling and artificial neural network prediction of surfactant adsorption for enhanced oil recovery application

Experimental investigation, binary modelling and artificial neural network prediction of surfactant adsorption for enhanced oil recovery application

Role of Phase-Dependent Dielectric Properties of Alumina Nanoparticles in Electromagnetic-Assisted Enhanced Oil Recovery

Experimental investigation of resonant frequency of sandstone saturated with magnetite nanofluid

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