A comprehensive review of experimental studies of nanoparticles-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery

Yekeen, Nurudeen; Manan, Muhammad A.; Idris, Ahmad Kamal; Padmanabhan, Eswaran; Junin, Radzuan; Samin, Ali Mohamed; Gbadamosi, Afeez; Oguamah, Ifeanyi

doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2018.01.035

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“…Foams used for oil recovery are generated by co-injecting a gas (e.g., carbon dioxide, nitrogen or air) and a foaming agent containing liquid into the reservoir [41]. In the porous media, foams act as a dispersion of gas in liquid separated by a lamella, with the gas phase residing in the upper side while the bulk liquid is located at the bottom of the foam structure [42].…”

Section: Foam and Emulsion Stabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Due to the solid nature of nanoparticles, the foams they stabilize are highly resistant to unfavorable reservoir conditions. Nanoparticles adsorb at the lamellae interface of the foam with a strong adhesion energy that makes their attachment irreversible (see Figure 3) [41,46]. Sun et al studied the influence of nanoparticles on the generation, propagation, and stability of SiO 2 /SDS-stabilized foam in micromodels and sandpack porous media [47].…”

Section: Foam and Emulsion Stabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nanotechnology Application in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Current Opinion and Recent Advances

Gbadamosi¹,

Junin²,

Manan³

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Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes - New Technologies

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Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has been adjudged as an efficient oil recovery technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in the reservoir. This EOR method relies on the injection of chemicals to boost oil recovery. Recently, due to the limitations of the application of chemical EOR methods to reservoirs having elevated temperatures and high salinity and hardness concentrations, nanotechnology have been applied to enhance its efficiency and improve oil productivity. The synergistic combination of nanoparticles and conventional EOR chemicals has opened new routes for the synthesis and application of novel materials with sterling and fascinating properties. In this chapter, an up-to-date synopsis of nanotechnology applications in chemical EOR is discussed. A detailed explanation of the mechanism and applications of these novel methods for oil recovery are appraised and analyzed. Finally, experimental and laboratory results were outlined. This overview presents extensive information about new frontiers in chemical EOR applications for sustainable energy production.

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Section: Foam and Emulsion Stabilitymentioning

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Section: Foam and Emulsion Stabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nanotechnology Application in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Current Opinion and Recent Advances

Gbadamosi¹,

Junin²,

Manan³

et al. 2019

Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes - New Technologies

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“…Aqueous foams are dispersions of gas bubbles in a liquid continuous phase. They are used in a wide range of applications from enhanced oil recovery (EOR) (Quennouz et al 2014;Guo and Aryana 2016;Yekeen et al 2018) to food industry (Skurtys, Bouchon and Aguilera 2008;Laporte et al 2016) and biological applications such as biocompatible scaffolds (Chung et al 2009;Costantini et al 2015;Andrieux et al 2017).…”

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Microfluidics approach to investigate foam hysteretic behaviour

Labarre

Vigolo

2019

Microfluid Nanofluid

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Foam stability often refers to the foam left to evolve with time in static conditions. However, in everyday life, foams are submitted to numerous deformations. A feature of foam stability is represented by the foam's ability to resist to the deformation and to recover its initial properties after deformation. The technique developed here allows for a qualitative evaluation of the property of foam recovery after a deformation in a flow-focusing microfluidic device. The foam hysteretic behaviour was evaluated by introducing the analogous of a standard three-step test in which the recovery of viscosity is commonly studied over three deformation stages. The foam behaviour is analysed over an induced cycle of ascendant and descendant deformation at the wall, well controlled by varying the gas pressure for a constant liquid pressure. Thus, the recovery of the two-row foam pattern used as reference is studied after a high deformation phase corresponding to the bamboo pattern and the level of hysteresis is measured qualitatively. The samples investigated comprise a range of Newtonian aqueous solutions containing 5 cmc (critical micellar concentration) of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS). A retardation effect was observed leading to hysteresis caused by the increase in viscosity. A higher surface elasticity produced a smaller but non-negligible hysteresis due to an excess in elastic energy caused by the increase of the duration of the bubble rearrangements. The present study has gone some way towards enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms triggering or enhancing foam hysteresis in a microchannel. The findings will be of interest to many industrial processes where foams are submitted to a series of deformation steps along the process line from food industrial applications to biological systems.

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“…Foam has higher apparent viscosity and can control the mobility of the gas by substantially hinder the gas flow in porous media, which forces gas to sweep pores that it would not have reached without foam (Farajzadeh et al 2012). In short foam divert gas toward zones having lower permeability, it limits viscous fingering and also reduces overriding of gas in high permeability zones of reservoir (Yekeen et al 2018;Chevallier et al 2019). There are two main methods by which foam can be generated in porous media, surfactant alternating gas (SAG) and co-injection of surfactant and gas (Jensen and Friedmann 1987;Farajzadeh et al 2012).…”

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“…As an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method, a major concern with the application of foam is the stability of foam (Yekeen et al 2018). The selection and concentration of proper foaming agents are one of the main parameters that determines the success of foam flooding (Rafati et al 2012).…”

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Influence of lauryl betaine on aqueous solution stability, foamability and foam stability

Syed

Idris

Mohshim

et al. 2019

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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In gas flooding, one of the major problems in implementing foam as a gas mobility control method is the stability of foam. Foam booster when blended with surfactant could improve the foam stability. However, the influence of foam booster on the conventional foam stability and foamability at elevated temperature and presence of inorganic electrolytes is not yet explicit due to limited studies in this area. The objective of the present work was to evaluate the influence of a foam booster on aqueous solution stability, foamability and foam stability when blended with surfactant at different ratios at an elevated temperature in the presence of brine composed of monovalent and divalent ions. Three different surfactants AOS C 14-16 (alpha-olefin sulfonate), SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate) and a locally manufactured surfactant 'Surf X' were chosen as base surfactants. An amphoteric surfactant lauryl betaine was chosen as a foam booster in this study. The aqueous solution stability was visually evaluated, whereas the bulk foam experiments were conducted in a commercial foam analyzer apparatus. It was found that not all solutions were stable when lauryl betaine was blended. Lauryl betaine did not improve the foam generation time. The foam stability was improved; however, not all solutions were able to generate stable foam. 'Surf X' was able to generate more stable foam as compared to AOS and when blended with lauryl betaine it also required less amount of lauryl betaine to generate stable foam.

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A comprehensive review of experimental studies of nanoparticles-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery

Cited by 249 publications

References 167 publications

Nanotechnology Application in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Current Opinion and Recent Advances

Nanotechnology Application in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Current Opinion and Recent Advances

Microfluidics approach to investigate foam hysteretic behaviour

Influence of lauryl betaine on aqueous solution stability, foamability and foam stability

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