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Effects of asphaltene from residual crude oil on CO₂ foam stability [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCO2 foam stability in the presence of oil is crucial for CO2 geo-storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs. While previous studies have examined the impact of oil on foam stability, the understanding of how asphaltenes affect foam stability is limited ...
Elahe Beheshti +2 more
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A numerical feasibility study of CO2 foam for carbon utilization and storage in a depleted, high salinity, carbonate oil reservoir [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCarbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) offers a viable solution to reduce the carbon footprint in the petroleum industry, and foam injection presents a promising method to achieve this while simultaneously increasing oil recovery.
Ayomikun Bello +3 more
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A Novel Supercritical CO2 Foam System Stabilized With a Mixture of Zwitterionic Surfactant and Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019 In order to improve the CO2 foam stability at high temperature and salinity, hydrophilic silica nanoparticles (NPs) were added into a dilute zwitterionic surfactant solution to stabilize supercritical CO2 (SC-CO2) foam.
Weitao Li +7 more
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Petroleum Science, 2017 The ability of a novel nonionic CO2-soluble surfactant to propagate foam in porous media was compared with that of a conventional anionic surfactant (aqueous soluble only) through core floods with Berea sandstone cores.
Guangwei Ren, Quoc P. Nguyen
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Sol–gel-stabilized CO2 foam for enhanced in-situ carbonation in foamed fly ash backfill materials
Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-ResourcesA novel highly stable aqueous foam was synthesized using CO2, sodium silicate (SS) and anionic surfactant of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate. The influence of CO2 foam on the mechanical properties and its underlying mechanisms of foamed backfill material
Ichhuy Ngo +5 more
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Core-scale sensitivity study of CO2 foam injection strategies for mobility control, enhanced oil recovery, and CO2 storage [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 This paper presents experimental and numerical sensitivity studies to assist injection strategy design for an ongoing CO2 foam field pilot. The aim is to increase the success of in-situ CO2 foam generation and propagation into the reservoir for CO2 ...
Alcorn Zachary Paul +7 more
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Petroleum, 2022 Application of CO2 gas in foam enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes has emerged as a win-win strategy for achieving higher oil recovery factor and reducing greenhouse gas emission, which can significantly help the protection of the ozone layer from ...
Masoud Hatami Alooghareh +4 more
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Oil & Gas Science and Technology, 2021 Aiming at improving the stability of Supercritical CO2 (SC-CO2) foam in high temperature and salinity reservoirs, a kind of betaine surfactant, Hexadecyl Hydroxypropyl Sulfo Betaine (HHSB), was screened to stabilize SC-CO2 foam.
Li Weitao, Wang Kai, Zheng Wenkuan
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The effect of nanosilica sizes in the presence of nonionic TX100 surfactant on CO2 foam flooding
Petroleum Research, 2022 The aim of this research is to study the effect of hydrophilic silica nanoparticles, sizes as CO2 foam stabilizer in the presence of nonionic TX100 surfactant. Two nanosilica sizes, 15 and 70 nm, have been examined thoroughly.
Suriatie Mat Yusuf +7 more
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Effect of betaine surfactant structure on the properties of CO2 foam film [PDF]
Youqicang pingjia yu kaifa, 2023 The stability of foam system is very important in the application of foam flooding and gas reservoir foam drainage agent. The influence of surfactant molecular structure and interface arrangement on the permeability and stability of foam liquid film is ...
WANG Dianlin, YANG Qiong, WEI Bing, JI Bingxin, XIN Jun, SUN Lin
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