Testing the Stability of Mixed CO2/N2-Foam Using New Fluorosurfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui ◽  
Rahul N. Gajbhiye ◽  
Abdullah S. Sultan ◽  
Sidqi Abu-Khamsin
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals Modifikasi SLS dengan epoksida dari asam oleat dan hidrogen peroksida untuk meningkatkan kualitas surfaktan pada EOR

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Chitra Ria Ariska ◽  
Suryo Purwono ◽  
Bardi Murachman
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Chemical Compounds ◽  
Peroxyacetic Acid ◽  
Temperature Ratio ◽  
Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Ultralow Ift ◽  
Excellent Stability

SLS modification using epoxyde from oleat acid and hydrogen peroxyde to improve the quality of surfactant in EORSurfactant is one of the compounds used in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) which function is to enhance the oil production. One of the surfactants widely used is Sodium Ligno Sulfonat (SLS) due to its high degradability. However the modification with another compound is still needed in orderto decrease its Inter Facial Tension (IFT) until reach the ultralow IFT(±10-3 mN/m). One of the chemical compounds used to modify the surfactant is epoxidebecause it has reactive oxirane ring. The addition of oleic epoxide will increase solubility of surfactant in oil so it brings more stable microemulsion. Epoxidation of oleic acid was carried out with peroxyacetic acid that was generated insitu from aqueous hydrogen peroxide and glacial acetic acid. The modification of SLS was then done by adding the epoxide in various conversion resulted from epoxidation. The experiment was investigated at temperature, ratio of epoxide to SLS and reaction time of 70oC, 1:2 and 1 hour, respectively. The modified product were then measured their IFTat temperature of 30-60oC and tested the stability of microemulsion based on time of formation of microemulsion up back in its original state. The present study revealed that epoxides has capability to decrease IFT. The results of experiment shows that the lowest IFT is modification of epoxide with the conversion of 10% as 3,7 x10-3 mN/m and has most excellent stability with time 113 minutes.Keywords: epoxide, Sodium Ligno Sulfonat (SLS), microemulsion, surfactant, EOR AbstrakSurfaktan adalah salah satu bahan kimia yang digunakan dalam Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) untuk meningkatkan produksi minyak. Salah satu jenis surfaktan yang banyak digunakan adalah Sodium Ligno Sulfonat (SLS) karena mudah didegradasi limbahnya. Namun modifikasi dengan senyawa lain masih perlu dilakukan untuk menurunkan tegangan antarmuka atau Inter Facial Tension (IFT) hingga mencapai ultralow IFT (±10-3 mN/m). Salah satu bahan kimia yang dapat digunakan untuk modifikasi surfaktan adalah epoksida karena memiliki cincin oksiren yang reaktif. Penambahan epoksi oleat ini akan meningkatkan kelarutan surfaktan dalam minyak sehingga didapatkan mikroemulsi yang lebih stabil. Modifikasi SLS dibuat dengan menambahkan epoksida dengan variasi konversi yang dihasilkan dari proses epoksidasi. Percobaan dilakukan pada temperatur 70oC, rasio perbandingan epoksida:SLS adalah 1:2 dengan waktu reaksi 1 jam. IFT produk modifikasi diukur pada temperatur 30-60oC dan diuji kestabilan mikroemulsinya berdasarkan waktu pembentukan mikroemulsi sampai kembali pada keadaan semula. Dari penelitian didapatkan bahwa epoksida dapat menurunkan IFT. IFT paling rendah dihasilkan dari modifikasi epoksida dengan konversi 10%, yaitu 3,7 x10-3 mN/m dan memiliki kestabilan paling baik dengan waktu emulsi 113 menit.Kata kunci: epoksida, Sodium Ligno Sulfonat (SLS), mikroemulsi, surfaktan, EOR

Evaluation of foam performance at different temperature for enhanced oil recovery process

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Suhana Abd Rahim ◽  
Ismail Mohd Saaid ◽  
Abubakar Abubakar Umar
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Foam Stability ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Foam Film ◽  
The Stability

Purpose Application of foam in enhanced oil recovery requires a production of foam that is strong and stable enough to withstand a long period. There are numerous factors that may affect the performance of foam, among which is temperature. Therefore, this study aims to observe the foam performance at different temperature by evaluating the foamability and the stability of the foam. Design/methodology/approach In this study, bulk foam test using FoamScan was conducted to examine the effect of temperature on foam in the presence of crude oil. Nitrogen gas was sparged through the mixture of crude oil, an in-house developed surfactant, and sodium chloride solution as the brine at different temperatures to produce foam at a certain height. The crude oil was extracted from an oilfield in East Malaysia and the in-house developed surfactant was a mixture of amphoteric and anionic surfactants. A camera continuously recorded the height of foam during the generation and the collapse of the foam. The foamability and foam stability properties of each sample were taken as the indicators for foam performance. Furthermore, the entering, spreading and bridging analysis was run to observe the effect of the presence of crude oil on foam performance. Findings In general, the higher the temperature, the less stable the foam is. As the stability of foam is associated with the rate of liquid drainage, it was observed that as temperature increases, the rate of liquid drainage also increases. On the other hand, the entering, spreading and bridging analysis shows that there is entering of oil droplet happening on the interface of foam film that may promote the rupture of the foam film even more. Originality/value It was found that the temperature has a small impact on foamability, whereas the foam stability was significantly affected by the temperature. Therefore, it can be concluded that foamability is not necessarily interrelated to foam stability, contradicting to the findings of few authors.

scholarly journals Laboratory Analysis of Foam Generating Surfactants and Their Thermal Stability for Enhanced Oil Recovery Application

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khan Memon ◽  
Ubedullah Ansari ◽  
Habib U Zaman Memon
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Foam Stability ◽  
Sodium Dodecyl ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Alpha Olefin Sulfonate ◽  
Alpha Olefin ◽  
Secondary Oil Recovery ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Brine Salinity

The residual oil after primary or secondary oil recovery can be recovered by the methods of EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery). The objective of this study is screening the surfactants that generate maximum stable foam in the presence of brine salinity at 92oC. Laboratory experiments have been performed to examine and compare the stability of generated foam by individual and blended surfactants in the synthetic brine water. AOS C14-16 (Alpha Olefin Sulfonate) and SDS (Sodium Dodecyl Sulfonate) were selected as main surfactants. Aqueous stability test of AOS C14-16 and SDS with brine water salinity 62070ppm was performed at 92oC. AAS (Alcohol Alkoxy Sulfate) was blended with SDS and AOS C14-16. The solution was stable in the presence of brine salinity at same conditions. Salt tolerance experimental study revealed that AOS C14-16 did not produce precipitates at 92oC. Further, the foam stability of surfactant blend was performed. Result shows that, the maximum life time of generated foam was observed by using blend of 0.2wt% SDS+0.2wt% AOS+0.2wt% AS-1246 and 0.2wt% AOS+0.2wt% IOSC15-18+0.2wt% AAS surfactants as compared to the foam generated by individual surfactants. The success of generated foam by these surfactant solutions in the presence of brine water is the primary screening of surfactant stability and foamability for EOR applications in reservoirs type of reservoirs.

scholarly journals Investigation of Stability of CO2 Microbubbles—Colloidal Gas Aphrons for Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Definitive Screening Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Nam Nguyen Hai Le ◽  
Yuichi Sugai ◽  
Kyuro Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Xanthan Gum ◽  
Polymer Concentration ◽  
Sodium Dodecyl ◽  
Screening Design ◽  
Stirring Rate ◽  
Definitive Screening ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Definitive Screening Design

CO2 microbubbles have recently been used in enhanced oil recovery for blocking the high permeability zone in heterogeneous reservoirs. Microbubbles are colloidal gas aphrons stabilized by thick shells of polymer and surfactant. The stability of CO2 microbubbles plays an important role in improving the performance of enhanced oil recovery. In this study, a new class of design of experiment (DOE)—definitive screening design (DSD) was employed to investigate the effect of five quantitative parameters: xanthan gum polymer concentration, sodium dodecyl sulfate surfactant concentration, salinity, stirring time, and stirring rate. This is a three-level design that required only 11 experimental runs. The results suggest that DSD successfully evaluated how various parameters contribute to CO2 microbubble stability. The definitive screening design revealed a polynomial regression model has ability to estimate the main effect factor, two-factor interactions and pure-quadratic effect of factors with high determination coefficients for its smaller number of experiments compared to traditional design of experiment approach. The experimental results showed that the stability depend primarily on xanthan gum polymer concentration. It was also found that the stability of CO2 microbubbles increases at a higher sodium dodecyl sulfate surfactant concentration and stirring rate, but decreases with increasing salinity. In addition, several interactions are presented to be significant including the polymer–salinity interaction, surfactant–salinity interaction and stirring rate–salinity interaction.

scholarly journals Synergistic effect of hydrophilic nanoparticles and anionic surfactant on the stability and viscoelastic properties of oil in water (o/w) emulations; application for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Sarmad Al-Anssari ◽  
Zain-UL-Abedin Arain ◽  
Haider Abbas Shanshool ◽  
Alireza Keshavarz ◽  
Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Keyword(s):  
Synergistic Effect ◽  
Silica Nanoparticles ◽  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Anionic Surfactant ◽  
Viscoelastic Properties ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Oil In Water ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Stability

With the rapidly increased global energy demand, great attention has been focused on utilizing nanotechnology and particularly nanofluids in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to produce more oil from low-productivity oil reservoirs. Nanofluid flooding has introduced as one of the promising methods for enhanced oil recovery using environment-friendly nanoparticles (NPs) to be as an innovative-alternative for chemical methods of EOR. This work investigates the synergistic effects of anionic surfactant and hydrophilic silica nanoparticles on the stability and the mechanical behavior of oil in water (O/W) emulsions for their application in EOR. To achieve this, an extensive series of experiments were conducted at a wide range of temperatures (23 – 70 °C) and ambient pressure to systematically evaluate the stability and the viscoelastic properties of the oil in water (O/W) emulsion with the presence of hydrophilic silica nanoparticles and an anionic surfactant. In this context, the initial oil to water volume ratio was 25:75. Sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) was used as the anionic surfactant and n-decane was used as model oil. A wide concentration ranges of NPs (0.01 – 0.2 wt%) and surfactant (0.1 – 0.3 wt%) were used to formulate different emulsions. For stability measurements, a dynamic light scattering and zetasizer were used to measure the particle size distribution and zeta potential respectively. Creaming and phase behaviors were also investigated. The viscoelastic measurements were conducted using Discovery Hybrid Rheometer.      Results show that in the presence of surfactant, and NPs mitigates the coalescence of dispersed oil droplets giving high promises in EOR applications. Further, over the tested range of temperatures, the viscosity of O/W emulsion remains stable which indicates thermal stability. Despite studies examining the use of nanoparticle-surfactant combination in sub-surface applications, no reported data is currently available, to the best of our knowledge, about the potential synergistic effect of this combination on the stability and viscoelastic properties of O/W emulsion. This study gives the first insight on nanoparticle-surfactant synergistic effect on oil in water (O/W) emulsion for EOR applications.

scholarly journals pH-Responsive Nanoemulsions Based on a Dynamic Covalent Surfactant

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1390
Author(s):  
Gaihuan Ren ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Lulu Ren ◽  
Dongxu Lu ◽  
Pan Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Intelligent Control ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Interfacial Reactions ◽  
Heavy Oil Recovery ◽  
Ph Responsive ◽  
Interfacial Activity ◽  
Imine Bond ◽  
The Stability

Developing solid-free nanoemulsions with pH responsiveness is desirable in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. Here, we report the synthesis of an interfacial activity controllable surfactant (T−DBA) through dynamic imine bonding between taurine (T) and p-decyloxybenzaldehyde (DBA). Instead of macroemulsions, nanoemulsions can be prepared by using T−DBA as an emulsifier. The dynamic imine bond of T−DBA enables switching between the active and inactive states in response to pH. This switching of interfacial activity was used to gate the stability of nanoemulsions, thus enabling us to turn the nanoemulsions off and on. Using such dynamic imine bonds to govern nanoemulsion stability could enable intelligent control of many processes such as heavy oil recovery and interfacial reactions.

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