The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation

Abstract The applications of nanotechnology in oilfields have attracted the attention of researchers to nanofluid injection as a novel approach for enhanced oil recovery. To better understand the prevailing mechanisms in such new displacement scenarios, micromodel experiments provide powerful tools...

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Autores principales:	Peyman Rostami, Mohammad Sharifi, Babak Aminshahidy, Jalal Fahimpour
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Publicado:	KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2019
Materias:	Nanoparticles Micromodel Wettability alteration Oil recovery CFD calculation Science Q Petrology QE420-499
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fb2e3f4f05934160bd599f78072ec5e92021-12-02T03:31:44ZThe effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation10.1007/s12182-019-0312-z1672-51071995-8226https://doaj.org/article/fb2e3f4f05934160bd599f78072ec5e92019-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12182-019-0312-zhttps://doaj.org/toc/1672-5107https://doaj.org/toc/1995-8226Abstract The applications of nanotechnology in oilfields have attracted the attention of researchers to nanofluid injection as a novel approach for enhanced oil recovery. To better understand the prevailing mechanisms in such new displacement scenarios, micromodel experiments provide powerful tools to visually observe the way that nanoparticles may mobilize the trapped oil. In this work, the effect of silicon oxide nanoparticles on the alteration of wettability of glass micromodels was investigated in both experimental and numerical simulation approaches. The displacement experiments were performed on the original water-wet and imposed oil-wet (after aging in stearic acid/n-heptane solution) glass micromodels. The results of injection of nanofluids into the oil-saturated micromodels were then compared with those of the water injection scenarios. The flooding scenarios in the micromodels were also simulated numerically with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. A good agreement between the experimental and simulation results was observed. An increase of 9% and 13% in the oil recovery was obtained by nanofluid flooding in experimental tests and CFD calculations, respectively.Peyman RostamiMohammad SharifiBabak AminshahidyJalal FahimpourKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.articleNanoparticlesMicromodelWettability alterationOil recoveryCFD calculationScienceQPetrologyQE420-499ENPetroleum Science, Vol 16, Iss 4, Pp 859-873 (2019)
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topic	Nanoparticles Micromodel Wettability alteration Oil recovery CFD calculation Science Q Petrology QE420-499
spellingShingle	Nanoparticles Micromodel Wettability alteration Oil recovery CFD calculation Science Q Petrology QE420-499 Peyman Rostami Mohammad Sharifi Babak Aminshahidy Jalal Fahimpour The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation
description	Abstract The applications of nanotechnology in oilfields have attracted the attention of researchers to nanofluid injection as a novel approach for enhanced oil recovery. To better understand the prevailing mechanisms in such new displacement scenarios, micromodel experiments provide powerful tools to visually observe the way that nanoparticles may mobilize the trapped oil. In this work, the effect of silicon oxide nanoparticles on the alteration of wettability of glass micromodels was investigated in both experimental and numerical simulation approaches. The displacement experiments were performed on the original water-wet and imposed oil-wet (after aging in stearic acid/n-heptane solution) glass micromodels. The results of injection of nanofluids into the oil-saturated micromodels were then compared with those of the water injection scenarios. The flooding scenarios in the micromodels were also simulated numerically with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. A good agreement between the experimental and simulation results was observed. An increase of 9% and 13% in the oil recovery was obtained by nanofluid flooding in experimental tests and CFD calculations, respectively.
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author	Peyman Rostami Mohammad Sharifi Babak Aminshahidy Jalal Fahimpour
author_facet	Peyman Rostami Mohammad Sharifi Babak Aminshahidy Jalal Fahimpour
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title	The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation
title_short	The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation
title_full	The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation
title_fullStr	The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation
title_full_unstemmed	The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation
title_sort	effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and cfd simulation
publisher	KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
publishDate	2019
url	https://doaj.org/article/fb2e3f4f05934160bd599f78072ec5e9
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The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation

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