Wettability Alteration in Carbonates using Zirconium Oxide Nanofluids: EOR Implications

By A. Karimi, Z. Fakhroueian, A. Bahramian, N. P. Khiabani, Jabar Babaee Darabad, R. Azin, Sharareh Arya. 2012

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Subfields: Analytical Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Effect of temperature and SiO2 nanoparticle size on wettability alteration of oil-wet calcite (2017, methodology): “Alteration of oil-wet carbonate surfaces to water-wet is thus a key mechanism, which can significantly increase oil production [23, 27, 38-43].”
• Nanoparticle technology for heavy oil in-situ upgrading and recovery enhancement: Opportunities and challenges (2014, background): “Furthermore, most of metal oxide nanoparticles are of hydrophilic nature and, hence, their adsorption onto a surface can change the wettability toward water wetting [100].”
• Advanced nanomaterials in oil and gas industry: Design, application and challenges (2017, background): “improved oil recovery by altering the carbonate rock wettability from strongly oil-wet to strongly water-wet [348].”
• Metal oxide-based nanoparticles: revealing their potential to enhance oil recovery in different wettability systems (2015, methodology): “Displacement mechanism In this study, several possible measurements, i.e. contact angle, IFT and effluent analyses, were conducted to identify the oil displacement mechanism using metal oxide NPs. Karimi et al. (2012) observed that ZrO2 plays an important role in the wettability alteration of a carb”
• Application of Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Critical Review of Recent Progress (2017, methodology): “[48] ZrO2 + Surfactants/ distilled water Heavy oil 861 425 Carbonate Contact angle method, Amott test Aging time, type of nonionic surfactants and”