scholarly journals Derivation of a pH Dependent Solid-Liquid Interfacial Tension and Theoretical Interpretation of the Physicochemistry of Dewetting in the CO2-Brine-Silica System

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Mumuni Amadu ◽  
Adango Miadonye
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Fundamental Parameter ◽  
Binding Model ◽  
Ph Dependent ◽  
Solid Liquid

The solid-liquid interfacial tension is a fundamental parameter in areas of wettability pertaining to adhesive bonds and petroleum engineering practice. In wettability issues related to surface functionalized polymeric materials design to achieve specific adhesive properties, the solid-liquid interfacial tension can be pH dependent due to amphoteric behavior. In this paper, we have used the theory of pH dependent surface charging and the 2-pk model as well as the site binding model of the electric double layer theory to derive a pH dependent solid-liquid interfacial tension equation. Following the fundamental relationship between solid-liquid interfacial tension and contact angle in light of Young’s equation, we have extended the theoretical basis of the derivation. Consequently, we have also derived a pH dependent cosine of the thermodynamic contact angle. Both equations give satisfactory explanations for observed experimental data available in the literature.

scholarly journals Mechanism of active silica nanofluids based on interface-regulated effect during spontaneous imbibition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu-Guang Song ◽  
Ming-Wei Zhao ◽  
Cai-Li Dai ◽  
Xin-Ke Wang ◽  
Wen-Jiao Lv
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Dynamic Contact Angle ◽  
Liquid Interface ◽  
Spontaneous Imbibition ◽  
Wettability Alteration ◽  
Low Permeability ◽  
Oil Water ◽  
Solid Liquid

AbstractThe ultra-low permeability reservoir is regarded as an important energy source for oil and gas resource development and is attracting more and more attention. In this work, the active silica nanofluids were prepared by modified active silica nanoparticles and surfactant BSSB-12. The dispersion stability tests showed that the hydraulic radius of nanofluids was 58.59 nm and the zeta potential was − 48.39 mV. The active nanofluids can simultaneously regulate liquid–liquid interface and solid–liquid interface. The nanofluids can reduce the oil/water interfacial tension (IFT) from 23.5 to 6.7 mN/m, and the oil/water/solid contact angle was altered from 42° to 145°. The spontaneous imbibition tests showed that the oil recovery of 0.1 wt% active nanofluids was 20.5% and 8.5% higher than that of 3 wt% NaCl solution and 0.1 wt% BSSB-12 solution. Finally, the effects of nanofluids on dynamic contact angle, dynamic interfacial tension and moduli were studied from the adsorption behavior of nanofluids at solid–liquid and liquid–liquid interface. The oil detaching and transporting are completed by synergistic effect of wettability alteration and interfacial tension reduction. The findings of this study can help in better understanding of active nanofluids for EOR in ultra-low permeability reservoirs.

scholarly journals Effect of Direct Current on Solid-Liquid Interfacial Tension and Wetting Behavior of Ga–In–Sn Alloy Melt on Cu Substrate

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Limin Zhang ◽  
Ning Li ◽  
Hui Xing ◽  
Rong Zhang ◽  
Kaikai Song
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Direct Current ◽  
Sessile Drop ◽  
Contact Angles ◽  
Current Intensity ◽  
Solute Diffusion ◽  
Wetting Behavior ◽  
Cu Substrate ◽  
Solid Liquid

The effect of direct current (DC) on the wetting behavior of Cu substrate by liquid Ga–25In–13Sn alloy at room temperature is investigated using a sessile drop method. It is found that there is a critical value for current intensity, below which the decrease of contact angle with increasing current intensity is approximately linear and above which contact angle tends to a stable value from drop shape. Current polarity is a negligible factor in the observed trend. Additionally, the observed change in contact angles is translated into the corresponding change in solid-liquid interfacial tension using the equation of state for liquid interfacial tensions. The solid-liquid interfacial tension decreases under DC. DC-induced promotion of solute diffusion coefficient is likely to play an important role in determining the wettability and solid-liquid interfacial tension under DC.

EVALUATION OF DETERGENCY, INTERFACIAL TENSION AND CONTACT ANGLE FOR FIVE SURFACE WASHING AGENTS

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 785-789
Author(s):  
Karen M. Koran ◽  
Albert D. Venosa ◽  
Christopher Luedeker
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Mixing Time ◽  
Solid Substrate ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Solid Liquid ◽  
Prudhoe Bay

ABSTRACT The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a laboratory testing protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of surface washing agents (SWAs) to remove crude oil from a solid substrate. Variables were tested to determine their effect on SWA performance. The protocol was most sensitive to SWA:oil ratio (SOR) and rotational speed of mixing; it was not greatly affected by contact time, mixing time, or SWA concentration when total applied mass is constant. Interfacial tension and contact angle were measured for Prudhoe Bay Crude oil in the presence of six SWAs. SWAs were ranked based on 1) efficiency under the developed protocol, 2) ability to reduce interfacial tension and 3) ability to increase oil-substrate contact angle. In order for oil displacement to be thermodynamically favored, an SWA must have a lower interfacial tension with the substrate than does the oil. Using Young'S equation, the difference between the two solid-liquid interfacial tensions was calculated from the three phase contact angle and the interfacial tension between the two liquids. SWAs were ranked based on each of these criteria, and data were correlated with effectiveness under the protocol.

Line Tension-Based Modification of Young's Equation for Rock-Oil-Brine Systems

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (05) ◽  
pp. 702-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dayanand Saini ◽  
Dandina N. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Adhesion Force ◽  
Line Tension ◽  
Intermolecular Forces ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
L Systems ◽  
Solid Liquid ◽  
Young's Equation ◽  
Liquid Vapor

Summary The two-century-old Young's equation has been widely used in petroleum engineering to depict the reservoir wettability in terms of contact angle, which is a function of surface free energies of the system. For solid/liquid/vapor (S/L/V) systems, Young's equation has been modified in the recent literature to include a line-tension term. This modification was sought to accommodate the imbalance of intermolecular forces experienced by the three-phase confluence zone. Also, Young's equation does not account for the vertical component of liquid/vapor surface tension. The present study aims to experimentally investigate the applicability of the line-tension-based modification of Young's equation to solid/liquid/liquid (rock/oil/brine) (S/L/L) systems of interest to the petroleum industry. Both the ambient- and reservoir-condition optical cells were used, with stock-tank and live oil, respectively, to determine the drop-size dependence of dynamic contact angle subtended by the oil/brine interface with the rock surface. The experimental data were correlated with the modified Young's equation to determine the magnitude of line tension for different rock/oil/brine systems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply the modified Young's equation to rock/oil/brine systems and to measure line tension for a rock/live-crude-oil/brine system at reservoir conditions of pressure and temperature. The measured line tension for S/L/L systems, while being positive and of the same order of magnitude as in S/L/V systems, correlates well with the water-advancing contact angle and the adhesion number, a ratio of adhesion force to capillary force. This experimental study indicates that the extent of deviation from Young's equation exhibited by rock/oil/brine systems may be directly related to the rock/oil adhesion interaction. This study reinforces the need to include the rock/oil adhesion force in our consideration of rock/fluid interactions, wettability, and their impact on enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR)/improved-oil-recovery (IOR) processes.

Wetting of glass surface using natural surfactants

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nihar Ranjan Biswal
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Glass Surface ◽  
Pure Water ◽  
Amyl Alcohol ◽  
Synthetic Surfactant ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Natural Surfactants ◽  
Triton X ◽  
Solid Liquid

Background: Surfactant adsorption at the interfaces (solid–liquid, liquid–air, or liquid–liquid) is receiving considerable attention from a long time due to its wide range of practical applications. Objective: Specifically wettability of solid surface by liquids is mainly measured by contact angle and has many practical importances where solid–liquid systems are used. Adsorption of surfactants plays an important role in the wetting process. The wetting behaviours of three plant-based natural surfactants (Reetha, Shikakai, and Acacia) on the glass surface are compared with one widely used nonionic synthetic surfactant (Triton X-100) and reported in this study. Methods: The dynamic contact angle study of three different types of plant surfactants (Reetha, Shikakai and Acacia) and one synthetic surfactant (Triton X 100) on the glass surface has been carried out. The effect of two different types of alcohols such as Methanol and amyl alcohol on wettability of shikakai, as it shows little higher value of contact angle on glass surface has been measured. Results: The contact angle measurements show that there is an increase in contact angle from 47° (pure water) to 67.72°, 65.57°, 68.84°, and 68.79° for Reetha, Acacia, Shikakai, and Triton X-100 respectively with the increase in surfactant concentration and remain constant at CMC. The change in contact angle of Shikakai-Amyl alcohol mixtures are slightly different than that of methanol-Shikakai mixture, mostly there is a gradual increase in contact angle with the increasing in alcohol concentration. Conclusion: There is no linear relationship between cos θ and inverse of surface tension. There was a linear increase in surface free energy results with increase in concentration as more surfactant molecules were adsorbing at the interface enhancing an increase in contact angle.

scholarly journals Interfacial Behaviour in Ferroalloys: The Influence of Sulfur in FeMn and SiMn Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Bublik ◽  
Sarina Bao ◽  
Merete Tangstad ◽  
Kristian Etienne Einarsrud
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Sessile Drop ◽  
Interfacial Properties ◽  
Apparent Contact Angle ◽  
Holding Time ◽  
Transfer Rates ◽  
Experimental Parameters ◽  
Interfacial Behaviour ◽  
Modelling Approach

AbstractThe present study has investigated the influence of sulfur content in synthetic FeMn and SiMn from 0 to 1.00 wt pct on interfacial properties between these ferroalloys and slags. The effect of experimental parameters such as temperature and holding time was evaluated. Interfacial interaction between ferroalloys and slags was characterized by interfacial tension and apparent contact angle between metal and slag, measured based on the Young–Laplace equation and an inverse modelling approach developed in OpenFOAM. The results show that sulfur has a significant influence on both interfacial tension and apparent contact angle, decreasing both values and promoting the formation of a metal-slag mixture. Despite the fact that sulfur was added only to the ferroalloys, most of sulfur is distributed into slag after reactions with the metal phase. Increasing the maximum experimental temperature in the sessile drop furnace also resulted in a decrease of both interfacial properties, resulting in higher mass transfer rates and intensive reactions between metal and slag. The effect of holding time demonstrated that after reaching equilibrium in FeMn-slag and SiMn-slag systems (both with and without sulfur), interfacial tension and apparent contact angle remain constant.

scholarly journals Carbon dioxide adsorption and interaction with formation fluids of Jordanian unconventional reservoirs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Samara ◽  
T. V. Ostrowski ◽  
F. Ayad Abdulkareem ◽  
E. Padmanabhan ◽  
P. Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Contact Angle ◽  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Gas Adsorption ◽  
Sessile Drop ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Gravimetric Method ◽  
Rock Surface ◽  
Operating Pressure

AbstractShales are mostly unexploited energy resources. However, the extraction and production of their hydrocarbons require innovative methods. Applications involving carbon dioxide in shales could combine its potential use in oil recovery with its storage in view of its impact on global climate. The success of these approaches highly depends on various mechanisms taking place in the rock pores simultaneously. In this work, properties governing these mechanisms are presented at technically relevant conditions. The pendant and sessile drop methods are utilized to measure interfacial tension and wettability, respectively. The gravimetric method is used to quantify CO2 adsorption capacity of shale and gas adsorption kinetics is evaluated to determine diffusion coefficients. It is found that interfacial properties are strongly affected by the operating pressure. The oil-CO2 interfacial tension shows a decrease from approx. 21 mN/m at 0.1 MPa to around 3 mN/m at 20 MPa. A similar trend is observed in brine-CO2 systems. The diffusion coefficient is observed to slightly increase with pressure at supercritical conditions. Finally, the contact angle is found to be directly related to the gas adsorption at the rock surface: Up to 3.8 wt% of CO2 is adsorbed on the shale surface at 20 MPa and 60 °C where a maximum in contact angle is also found. To the best of the author’s knowledge, the affinity of calcite-rich surfaces toward CO2 adsorption is linked experimentally to the wetting behavior for the first time. The results are discussed in terms of CO2 storage scenarios occurring optimally at 20 MPa.

scholarly journals A new slick water system for hydraulic fracturing in tight reservoir to enhance imbibition oil recovery

2021 ◽  
Vol 303 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Yu Haiyang ◽  
Ji Wenjuan ◽  
Luo Cheng ◽  
Lu Junkai ◽  
Yan Fei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Angle ◽  
Interfacial Tension ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Water System ◽  
Natural Fracture ◽  
Fracturing Fluid ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ultralow Permeability

In order to give full play to the role of imbibition of capillary force and enhance oil recovery of ultralow permeability sandstone reservoir after hydraulic fracturing, the mixed water fracture technology based on functional slick water is described and successfully applied to several wells in oilfield. The core of the technology is determination of influence factors of imbibition oil recovery, the development of new functional slick water system and optimization of volume fracturing parameters. The imbibition results show that it is significant effect of interfacial tension, wetting on imbibition oil recovery. The interfacial tension decreases by an order of magnitude, the imbibition oil recovery reduces by more than 10%. The imbibition oil recovery increases with the contact angle decreasing. The emulsifying ability has no obvious effect on imbibition oil recovery. The functional slick water system considering imbibition is developed based on the solution rheology and polymer chemistry. The system has introduced the active group and temperature resistant group into the polymer molecules. The molecular weight is controlled in 1.5 million. The viscosity is greater than 2mPa·s after shearing 2h under 170s-1 and 100℃. The interfacial tension could decrease to 10-2mN/m. The contact angle decreased from 58° to 22° and the core damage rate is less than 12%. The imbibition oil recovery could reach to 43%. The fracturing process includes slick water stage and linear gel stage. 10% 100 mesh ceramists and 8% temporary plugging agents are carried into the formation by functional slick water. 40-70 mesh ceramists are carried by linear gel. The liquid volume ratio is about 4:1 and the displacement is controlled at 10-12m3/min. The sand content and fracturing fluid volumes of single stage are 80m3 and 2500 m3 respectively. Compared with conventional fracturing, due to imbibition oil recovery, there is only 25% of the fracturing fluid flowback rate when the crude oil flew out. When the oil well is in normal production, about 50% of the fracturing fluid is not returned. It is useful to maintain the formation energy and slow down the production decline. The average cumulative production of vertical wells is greater than 2800t, and the effective period is more than 2 years. This technology overcoming the problem of high horizontal stress difference and lack of natural fracture has been successfully applied in Jidong Oilfield ultralow permeability reservoir. The successful application of this technology not only helps to promote the effective use of ultralow permeability reservoirs, but also helps to further clarify the role of imbibition recovery, energy storage and oil-water replacement mechanism.

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