Property evaluation of synthesized anionic-nonionic gemini surfactants for chemical enhanced oil recovery

Ma, Tao; Feng, Haishun; Wu, Hairong; Li, Zhe; Jiang, Jiatong; Xu, Derong; Meng, Ziyu; Kang, Wanli

doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.123800

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“…Gemini surfactants have been proven to be effective in changing an oil-wet surface to water-wet. , In sandstone formation, contact angle reduction of 140 to 40 and 110 to 10 as well as higher imbibition recovery than conventional surfactants , are observed. The extent of how much gemini surfactants change carbonate rock wettability and the related mechanisms are discussed in only a few papers.…”

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A Review on Wettability Alteration in Carbonate Rocks: Wettability Modifiers

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More than half of the global oil reserves are in carbonate reservoirs. Carbonate rocks, however, in most cases tend to be mixed-wet or oil-wet. Wettability alteration of carbonate reservoir rock has been proven to increase oil recovery significantly. Several chemicals have shown their effect on wettability; however, selection of an appropriate wettability modifier should be made on the basis of the underlying mechanisms and their behavior at reservoir conditions. This review discusses techniques that can help in assessing wettability alteration or reflect on the underlying mechanism and describes several categories of wettability modifiers focusing on their structure−property relationship and factors affecting their performance at reservoir conditions. Surfactants, nanoparticles, salts, and alkalis are four major categories of wettability modifiers that are discussed in this review. Among surfactants, gemini surfactants have great potential and could be a major focus of future research in this area. Nanoparticles are relatively novel materials for wettability alteration with the capability to reduce contact angle significantly at low cost. This review also identifies the current and future challenges related to the performance of various wettability modifiers at high-temperature and high-salinity conditions.

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A Review on Wettability Alteration in Carbonate Rocks: Wettability Modifiers

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“…Ma et al have synthesized a Gemini surfactant for its application in EOR. [32] They have reported that the synthesized surfactant effectively reduced the IFT up to < 0.1 mN/m and also changed the rock wettability to water wetting from oil from Madhuca longifolia (Mahua) by sulfonation and investigated its efficiency for oil field application through simulation. [33] The surfactant was found to effectively reduce IFT and able to alter the wetting characteristics of the rock.…”

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Enhanced Oil Recovery from the Methyl Ester Sulfonate Derived from Flaxseed Oil: Interfacial, Adsorption and Rock Wetting Characteristics

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The current work aims at the application of fatty acid methyl sulfonated products derived from Flaxseed oil for enhanced oil recovery. The product was characterized with the GCMS (gas chromatography mass spectrometry), FTIR (fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), FESEM (field emission scanning electron microscopy), EDX (energy dispersive X‐ray analysis) and TGA (therogravimetric analysis). Conductivity tests revealed that the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of Flaxseed surfactant is 7004 ppm. The amount of surfactant loss on the sand surfaces was found to be 10.42 mg/g which was quite lower as compared to that of the previous studies. Interfacial tension (IFT) was found to decrease up to 0.25 mN/m upon introduction of Flaxseed surfactant. Also, the slug showed pseudoplastic behavior at a lower shear rate whereas it showed shear thickening behavior at a higher shear rate. Finally, sand pack flooding tests were conducted and ∼48 % of oil recovered during water flooding whereas an additional ∼28 % of the oil was recovered as improved oil recovery.

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“…Gemini surfactants contains two hydrophobic tails and two hydrophilic heads connected by a spacer at or near the two head ( Figure 1) [2]. These chemical structure modifications grant them excellent properties namely, low CMC, high aqueous solubility and viscosity, unique micelle structure and aggregation behaviour and high yield in decreasing the surface tension of water solutions [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. As the CMC is an important parameter to characterize surfactants, their measurement is usually difficult and costly.…”

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CMC of diverse Gemini surfactants modelling using a hybrid approach combining SVR-DA

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As quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) technique provides a suitable tool to predict the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of Gemini surfactants from their structure descriptors. In this study, a comparative work was conducted to model the CMC property of 211 diverse Gemini surfactants based on their structural characteristics using linear and non-linear quantitative structure-property relationship models. Least squares model (OLS) and partial least squares (PLS) against k-nearest neighbours regression model (KNN), artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector regression (SVR) have been developed to model the CMC. Molecular descriptors were calculated and screened to remove unsuitable descriptors and improve the learning. Results indicate that the improved performance of support vector regression when the hyper-parameters are optimized using Dragonfly algorithm (SVR-DA) was highly capable of predicting the pCMC (-logCMC) values with an average absolute relative deviation (AARD) of 0.666 and coefficient of determination (R?) of 0.9971 for the global dataset.

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Property evaluation of synthesized anionic-nonionic gemini surfactants for chemical enhanced oil recovery

Cited by 56 publications

References 35 publications

A Review on Wettability Alteration in Carbonate Rocks: Wettability Modifiers

A Review on Wettability Alteration in Carbonate Rocks: Wettability Modifiers

Enhanced Oil Recovery from the Methyl Ester Sulfonate Derived from Flaxseed Oil: Interfacial, Adsorption and Rock Wetting Characteristics

CMC of diverse Gemini surfactants modelling using a hybrid approach combining SVR-DA

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