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Visualizing and Quantifying Wettability Alteration by Silica Nanofluids [PDF]
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 An aqueous suspension of silica nanoparticles or nanofluid can alter the wettability of surfaces, specifically by making them hydrophilic and oil-repellent under water. Wettability alteration by nanofluids have important technological applications, including for enhanced oil recovery and heat transfer processes.
Shidong Li +5 more
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Salinity-dependent wettability alteration [PDF]
, 2020 Low salinity water flooding is a technique where, by injecting reduced salinity seawater, oil recovery can be significantly improved in some sandstone reservoirs. It has been generally agreed upon that this works predominantly by improving the water wettability of the reservoir rock.
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A Novel Method with Dilute Surfactant Flooding by Considering the Effect of Time and Temperature on Crude Oil Aging, Experimental Study on Heavy Oil of Bangestan [PDF]
Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 2017 Wettability alteration has been a sophisticated issue for scientists and reservoir engineers since early 20th century; thus, many investigations have been carried out to determine wettability and enhance it to ideal conditions, which leads to improvement
Mohammadamir Heidari
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Energies, 2023 Modifying reservoir surface wetting properties is an appealing topic to the upstream oil and gas industry for enhancing hydrocarbon recovery as the shifting of reservoir rock surface wetting from oil-wet to water-wet has enhanced the oil recovery by as ...
Abhishek Ratanpara, Myeongsub Kim
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Energies, 2021 Waterflooding remains the most commonly used method to improve oil recovery. Although the injected brine type is mainly dependent on its availability, few of its characteristics can be controlled during project design. Published laboratory work indicates
Fabio Bordeaux-Rego +3 more
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A Mechanistic Study of Wettability Alterations in Sandstone by Low Salinity Water Injection (LSWI) and CO2 Low Salinity Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) Injection [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Low salinity water injection (LSWI), an emerging Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) method, has proven to be effective in increasing oil recovery by wettability alteration. As low salinity water is injected into the reservoir, the pre-established equilibrium is
Ma Shijia, James L.A.
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Water Films, Asphaltenes, and Wettability Alteration [PDF]
SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, 1998 Abstract We present a transport model for asphaltene diffusion from an oil/water interface through a water film followed by adsorption at a solid/water interface. Using a Langmuir adsorption isotherm, the effect of asphaltene aqueous solubility <md adsorption constant K on equilibration time are established ...
R. Kaminsky, C.J. Radke
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Altering Emulsion Stability with Heterogeneous Surface Wettability [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 AbstractEmulsions–liquid droplets dispersed in another immiscible liquid–are widely used in a broad spectrum of applications, including food, personal care, agrochemical and pharmaceutical products. Emulsions are also commonly present in natural crude oil, hampering the production and quality of petroleum fuels.
Qiang Meng +5 more
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Dynamic wettability alteration in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media: Effect on transport properties and critical slowing down [PDF]
, 2015 The change in contact angles due to the injection of low salinity water or any other wettability altering agent in an oil-rich porous medium is modeled by a network model of disordered pores transporting two immiscible fluids.
Flovik, Vegard +2 more
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Event-based contact angle measurements inside porous media using time-resolved micro-computed tomography [PDF]
, 2020 Hypothesis: Capillary-dominated multiphase flow in porous materials is strongly affected by the pore walls' wettability. Recent micro-computed tomography (mCT) studies found unexpectedly wide contact angle distributions measured on static fluid ...
Bultreys, Tom +2 more
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