Enhancement of surfactant flooding performance by the use of silica nanoparticles

By M. Zargartalebi, R. Kharrat, Nasim Barati. 2015

336 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Analytical Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Organic Chemistry

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In Analytical Chemistry

1. Shaobin Wang
2. G. Cheraghian
3. L. Hendraningrat

In Ocean Engineering

1. G. Cheraghian
2. A. Barifcani
3. Maxim Lebedev
4. M. Kamal
5. A. Sultan
6. M. Al-Hamad
7. Umer Mehmood
8. A. A. Adewunmi

In Organic Chemistry

1. Shaobin Wang
2. M. Al-Hamad
3. Umer Mehmood
4. M. Kamal
5. A. Sultan
6. G. Cheraghian
7. L. Hendraningrat
8. A. A. Adewunmi

Citations in the corpus

• Advanced nanomaterials in oil and gas industry: Design, application and challenges (2017, background): “reported that hydrophilic and slightly hydrophobic silica nanoparticles were able to improve surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate) performance during flooding experiment [333].”
• Wettability of nanofluid-modified oil-wet calcite at reservoir conditions (2018, background): “This reduction in θ during the first hour was solely due to the effect of surfactant molecules in the base fluid [62,72].”
• A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part B: effects of nanoparticles on flooding (2016, background): “ciently enhance surfactant flooding, and greater additional oil recovery (see also Table 1) can be obtained by the inclusion of nanoparticles into surfactant solutions [49].”
• Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil Recovery, and Wettability Alteration (2017, methodology): “used partially hydrophobic silicon oxide and fumed silicon oxide to investigate the effect on IFT in the presence of surfactant [54].”