Application of nanoparticles for chemical enhanced oil recovery

His Ph.D. thesis includes research on different aspects and applications of polymers for enhanced oil recovery, including shear‐degradable polymers, polymers for high‐ salinity and high‐temperature reservoir conditions, polymeric sacrificial agents, and polymer‐coated nanoparticles. Application of Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Critical Review of Recent Progress and opportunities for future study regarding application of nanoparticles in EOR processes

Finally, the application of nanoparticles in core flooding experiments is classified basedon the dominant mechanism which causes an increase in oil recovery from cores. However, thepreparation of homogeneous suspensions of nanoparticles is a technical challenge when usingnanoparticles in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). His Ph.D. thesis includes research on different aspects and applications of polymers for enhanced oil recovery, including shear‐degradable polymers, polymers for high‐ salinity and high‐temperature reservoir conditions, polymeric sacrificial agents, and polymer‐coated nanoparticles. In addition to previous applications of nanotechnology in petroleum upstreams, enormous researches have been made on the title of implementing of nanoparticles on the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) from petroleum reservoirs . Hence, in some studies the applications of nanoparticles in oil industry have been reported and classified based on priority. We have studied the stability and mobility of functionalized (hydroxylated, PEG and sulfonic acid) silica nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery applications, particularly at high salt which in some cases is amenable to tertiary or enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) processes. Chemical EOR processes encompass a variety of mechanisms, including a reduction in the oil-water interfacial tension,3–5 sur-face wettability alteration,6–10 the use of high viscosity agents for mobility control,11–14 application of thermal methods One of the speculated areas of application is in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). EOR is especially important now because of the recent global rise in energy demand which is expected to be met by the oil and gas industry. The ability of nanoparticles to alter certain factors in the formation and in oil properties can be taken advantage of to

Polymer‐coated nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery. Hadi ShamsiJazeyi. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas, 77005. Search for more papers by this author. Clarence A. Miller. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes aim to recover trapped oil left in reservoirs after primary

Recently, nanoparticles have attracted the attention due to their unique properties. A large number of nanoparticles have been investigated for enhanced oil recovery applications either alone or in combination with surfactants and/or polymers. This review discusses the various types of nanoparticles that have been utilized in enhanced oil recovery. Chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) are applied for improving oil recovery from different kinds of oil reservoirs due to their ability for modifying some crucial parameters in porous media, such as mobility ratio (M), wettability, spreading behavior of chemical solutions on rock surface and the interfacial tension (IFT) between water and oil. His Ph.D. thesis includes research on different aspects and applications of polymers for enhanced oil recovery, including shear‐degradable polymers, polymers for high‐ salinity and high‐temperature reservoir conditions, polymeric sacrificial agents, and polymer‐coated nanoparticles. Application of Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Critical Review of Recent Progress and opportunities for future study regarding application of nanoparticles in EOR processes Nanotechnology has the potential to profoundly change enhanced oil recovery and to improve mechanism of recovery. This paper, therefore, focuses on the reviews of the application of nano technology in chemical flooding process in oil recovery and reviews the application nano in the polymer and surfactant flooding on the interfacial tension process.

Application of Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Critical Review of Recent Progress and opportunities for future study regarding application of nanoparticles in EOR processes

His Ph.D. thesis includes research on different aspects and applications of polymers for enhanced oil recovery, including shear‐degradable polymers, polymers for high‐ salinity and high‐temperature reservoir conditions, polymeric sacrificial agents, and polymer‐coated nanoparticles. Application of Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Critical Review of Recent Progress and opportunities for future study regarding application of nanoparticles in EOR processes

Polymer‐coated nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery. Hadi ShamsiJazeyi. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas, 77005. Search for more papers by this author. Clarence A. Miller. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes aim to recover trapped oil left in reservoirs after primary

EOR chemicals are evaluated mainly using rheology, interfacial tension, wettability alteration, and core flooding experiments. The research on applications of  11 Mar 2017 Keywords: nanoparticles; enhanced oil recovery (EOR); review study; water flooding; gas injection; thermal methods; chemical flooding. 1. 12 Aug 2019 The use of nanomaterials in thermal and chemical enhanced oil recovery is becoming the cutting-edge technology. The main governing 

Polymer‐coated nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery. Hadi ShamsiJazeyi. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas, 77005. Search for more papers by this author. Clarence A. Miller. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes aim to recover trapped oil left in reservoirs after primary

12 Aug 2019 The use of nanomaterials in thermal and chemical enhanced oil recovery is becoming the cutting-edge technology. The main governing  chemical and gas methods. Finally, this review identifies the challenges and opportunities for future study regarding application of nanoparticles in EOR  3 Oct 2018 Enhance Oil Recovery (EOR) has recently received intensive interest. Many papers reviewed the application of nanotechnology in chemical. 1.3 Nanomaterials (nanoparticles). Researchers within the field of EOR are increasingly investigating the effects of nano-fluids for their potential applications, not 

We have studied the stability and mobility of functionalized (hydroxylated, PEG and sulfonic acid) silica nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery applications, particularly at high salt Recently, researchers have proved the application of nanoparticles (NPs) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in ambient temperature. However, to our knowledge no attempt has been undertaken experimentally to investigate the influence of NPs on EOR at higher temperatures. In this study, aluminum oxide (Al2O3), titanium dioxide (TiO2), and silicon dioxide (SiO2) were selected for EOR purposes from 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 Polymer‐coated nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery. Hadi ShamsiJazeyi. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas, 77005. Search for more papers by this author. Clarence A. Miller. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes aim to recover trapped oil left in reservoirs after primary Due to their large surface-area-to-volume ratio and enhanced chemical reactivity, nanoparticles have attracted interest among researchers in the upstream petroleum industry for oil recovery applications. Nanoparticles have been studied as additives to waterflooding from day one of production as well as additives at later-stage waterflooding Some previous reviews have summarized applications of nanotechnology in enhanced oil recovery from the petroleum engineering perspective.1,5,6,9 Shamsi Jazeyi et al. also gave a thorough discussion on application of polymer-coated nano-particles in enhanced oil recovery.10 In this review, we will discuss nano ooding techniques from the material and