Comparative Study of Using Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Wettability Alteration of Carbonate Rocks

By R. N. Moghaddam, A. Bahramian, Z. Fakhroueian, A. Karimi, Sharareh Arya. 2015

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Advanced nanomaterials in oil and gas industry: Design, application and challenges (2017, methodology): “5 at the vertex as a function of the radial distance [347], (c) disjoining pressure at the nearest vertex for SiO2 [114].”
Effect of temperature and SiO2 nanoparticle size on wettability alteration of oil-wet calcite (2017, background): “In this context it has been shown that nanofluids have a drastic ability to render oil-wet carbonate surface water-wet [23, 27, 29, 43].”
Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil Recovery, and Wettability Alteration (2017, background): “Oil recovery was reported to have increased by factors of 4 and 6 when CaCO 3 and SiO 2 NPs were present in the base-fluid, respectively [61].”
Wettability of nanofluid-modified oil-wet calcite at reservoir conditions (2018, background): “[25] 5 Ethanol and brine Carbonate Ambient Decane −87°”