The Application of Nanofluids for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Effects on Interfacial Tension and Coreflooding Process

Joonaki, Edris; Ghanaatian, Shima

doi:10.1080/10916466.2013.855228

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“…Total oil recoveries by the nanofluids are more 88 %. It indicates that if nanofluid injection begins earlier, the oil recoveries will be higher and less amount of oil is trapped within the porous media [54].…”

Section: Floodingmentioning

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A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part B: effects of nanoparticles on flooding

2015

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Chemical flooding is of increasing interest and importance due to high oil prices and the need to increase oil production. Research in nanotechnology in the petroleum industry is advancing rapidly, and an enormous progress in the application of nanotechnology in this area is to be expected. The nanotechnology has been widely used in several other industries, and the interest in the oil industry is increasing. Nanotechnology has the potential to profoundly change enhanced oil recovery and to improve mechanism of recovery, and it is chosen as an alternative method to unlock the remaining oil resources and applied as a new enhanced oil recovery method in last decade. This paper therefore focuses on the reviews of the application of nanotechnology in chemical flooding process in oil recovery and reviews the applications of nanomaterials for improving oil recovery that have been proposed to explain oil displacement by polymer flooding within oil reservoirs, and also this paper highlights the research advances of polymer in oil recovery. Nanochemical flooding is an immature method from an application point of view.

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Section: Floodingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part B: effects of nanoparticles on flooding

2015

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“…Therefore, the right nanoparticle and optimum concentration of the nanoparticle is required. Al 2 O 3 , SiO 2 and Fe 2 O 3 nanoparticles are effective for altering wettability of sandstone rocks [44]. Whereas ZrO 2 and NiO nanoparticles are effective for Limestone formations [32].…”

Section: Challenges Of Nanoparticles In Altering Wettabilitymentioning

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“…Joonaki and Ghanaatian [44] in their study used iron oxide, aluminium oxide, and silicon oxide treated by silane, using sand pack as the porous media, reported that the ultimate recovery was 92.5% with iron oxide, 88.6% with aluminium, and 95.3% with silica oxide.…”

Section: The Efficiency Of Different Nanoparticles During Oil Displacmentioning

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Mechanism governing nanoparticle flow behaviour in porous media: insight for enhanced oil recovery applications

2018

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Nanotechnology has found its way to petroleum engineering, it is well-accepted path in the oil and gas industry to recover more oil trapped in the reservoir. But the addition of nanoparticles to a liquid can result in the simplest flow becoming complex. To understand the working mechanism, there is a need to study the flow behaviour of these particles. This review highlights the mechanism affecting the flow of nanoparticles in porous media as it relates to enhanced oil recovery. The discussion focuses on chemical-enhanced oil recovery, a review on laboratory experiment on wettability alteration, effect of interfacial tension and the stability of emulsion and foam is discussed. The flow behaviour of nanoparticles in porous media was discussed laying emphasis on the physical aspect of the flow, the microscopic rheological behaviour and the adsorption of the nanoparticles. It was observed that nanofluids exhibit Newtonian behaviour at low shear rate and non-Newtonian behaviour at high shear rate. Gravitational and capillary forces are responsible for the shift in wettability from oil-wet to water-wet. The dominant mechanisms of foam flow process were lamellae division and bubble to multiple bubble lamellae division. In a water-wet system, the dominant mechanism of flow process and residual oil mobilization are lamellae division and emulsification, respectively. Whereas in an oil-wet system, the generation of pre-spinning continuous gas foam was the dominant mechanism. The literature review on oil displacement test and field trials indicates that nanoparticles can recover additional oil. The challenges encountered have opened new frontier for research and are highlighted herein.

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“…Altering the IFT at the oil-aqueous interface in a reservoir is necessary for generating the mobility and recovery of both the oil that is trapped within the small pores of the geologic formations and the residual oil that remains within the pores after the secondary recovery phase Bagherzadeh 2013, 2015;Joonaki and Ghanaatian 2014;Yuan et al 2015;Hu et al 2016a;Pu et al 2016). The wettability of an oil reservoir is dependent on the conditions that exist at the pore interfaces, conditions which govern the stability and movement of the interfaces and the resulting oil migration.…”

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“…In recent years, nanotechnology has offered a tremendous potential for petroleum engineering, in particular, for reservoir engineering (Amaya et al 2002;Binks 2002;Fletcher and Davis 2010;Suleimanov et al 2011;Wang et al 2011;Hendraningrat et al 2013;Kasel et al 2013;Roustaei and Bagherzadeh 2013;Zhang et al 2014;Joonaki and Ghanaatian 2014;. Chemical agents, such as surfactants, are widely used as surface modifiers in chemical EOR to increase oil recovery.…”

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Effects of silica-based nanostructures with raspberry-like morphology and surfactant on the interfacial behavior of light, medium, and heavy crude oils at oil-aqueous interfaces

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Korte

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Appl Nanosci

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Any efficient exploitation of new petroleum reservoirs necessitates developing methods to mobilize the crude oils from such reservoirs. Here silicon dioxide nanoparticles (SiO 2 NPs) were used to improve the efficiency of the chemical-enhanced oil recovery process that uses surfactant flooding. Specifically, SiO 2 NPs (i.e., 0, 0.001, 0.005, 0.01, 0.05, and 0.1 wt%) and Tween Ò 20, a nonionic surfactant, at 0, 0.5, and 2 critical micelle concentration (CMC) were varied to determine their effect on the stability of nanofluids and the interfacial tension (IFT) at the oil-aqueous interface for 5 wt% brine-surfactantSiO 2 nanofluid-oil systems for West Texas Intermediate light crude oil, Prudhoe Bay medium crude oil, and Lloydminster heavy crude oil. Our study demonstrates that SiO 2 NPs may either decrease, increase the IFT of the brinesurfactant-oil systems, or exhibit no effects at all. For the brine-surfactant-oil systems, the constituents of the oil and aqueous substances affected the IFT behavior, with the nanoparticles causing a contrast in IFT trends according to the type of crude oil. For the light oil system (0.5 and 2 CMC Tween threshold concentration resulted in a decrease in IFT, and concentrations above this threshold resulted in an increase in IFT. The IFT decreased until the NP concentration reached a threshold concentration where synergetic effects between nonionic surfactants and SiO 2 NPs are the opposite and result in antagonistic effects. Adsorption of both SiO 2 NPs and surfactants at an interface caused a synergistic effect and an increased reduction in IFT. The effectiveness of the brine-surfactant-SiO 2 nanofluids in decreasing the IFT between the oil-aqueous phase for the three tested crude oils were ranked as follows: (1) Prudhoe Bay [ (2) Lloydminster [ and (3) West Texas Intermediate. The level of asphaltenes and resins in these crude oil samples reflected these rankings. A decrease in the IFT also indicated the potential of the SiO 2 NPs to decrease capillary pressure and induce the movement and recovery of oil in original water-wet reservoirs. Conversely, an increase in IFT indicated the potential of SiO 2 NPs to increase capillary pressure and oil recovery in reservoirs subject to wettability reversal under water-wet conditions. Raspberrylike morphology particles were discovered in 5 wt% brinesurfactant-SiO 2 nanofluid-oil systems. The development of raspberry-like particles material with high surface area, high salt stability, and high capability of interfaces alteration and therefore wettability changes offers a wide range of applications in the fields of applied nanoscience, environmental engineering, and petroleum engineering.

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The Application of Nanofluids for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Effects on Interfacial Tension and Coreflooding Process

Cited by 195 publications

References 3 publications

A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part B: effects of nanoparticles on flooding

A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part B: effects of nanoparticles on flooding

Mechanism governing nanoparticle flow behaviour in porous media: insight for enhanced oil recovery applications

Effects of silica-based nanostructures with raspberry-like morphology and surfactant on the interfacial behavior of light, medium, and heavy crude oils at oil-aqueous interfaces

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