Adsorption of surfactants on sand surface in enhanced oil recovery: Isotherms, kinetics and thermodynamic studies
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of pH and adsorbent dose on the sorption efficiency of anionic and non-ionic surfactants was analyzed by fitting with Langmuir, Freundlich, Redlich-Peterson, and Sips isotherm models.
About: This article is published in Applied Surface Science.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 312 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Freundlich equation & Adsorption.
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TL;DR: A large number of cationic, anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants have been investigated on a laboratory scale under different conditions of temperature and salinity as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Surfactant flooding is an important technique used in enhanced oil recovery to reduce the amount of oil in pore space of matrix rock. Surfactants are injected to mobilize residual oil by lowering the interfacial tension between oil and water and/or by the wettability alteration from oil-wet to water-wet. A large number of cationic, anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants have been investigated on a laboratory scale under different conditions of temperature and salinity. Selection of the appropriate surfactant is a challenging task, and surfactants have to be evaluated by a series of screening techniques. Different types of surfactants along with their limitations are reviewed with particular emphasis on the phase behavior, adsorption, interfacial tension, and structure–property relationship. Factors affecting the phase behavior, interfacial tension, and wettability alteration are also discussed. Field applications of surfactants for chemical enhanced oil recovery in carbonate and sandstone reservoi...
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TL;DR: In this article, an up-to-date overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) with detailed explanation of the chemicals used, and the mechanism governing their oil recovery application have been discussed.
Abstract: Despite the progress made on renewable energy, oil and gas remains the world’s primary energy source. Meanwhile, large amounts of oil deposits remain unrecovered after application of traditional oil recovery methods. Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has been adjudged as an efficient oil recovery technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in the reservoir. This EOR method relies on the injection of chemicals to boost oil recovery. In this overview, an up-to-date synopsis of chemical EOR with detailed explanation of the chemicals used, and the mechanism governing their oil recovery application have been discussed. Challenges encountered in the application of the various conventional chemical EOR methods were highlighted, and solutions to overcome the challenges were proffered. Besides, the recent trend of incorporating nanotechnology and their synergistic effects on conventional chemicals stability and efficiency for EOR were also explored and analysed. Finally, laboratory results and field projects were outlined. The review of experimental studies shows that pore-scale mechanisms of conventional chemical EOR is enhanced by incorporating nanotechnology, hence, resulted in higher efficiency. Moreover, the use of ionic liquid chemicals and novel alkaline–cosolvent–polymer technology shows good potentials. This overview presents an extensive information about chemical EOR applications for sustainable energy production.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the interfacial tension, contact angle, emulsification and emulsion properties of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and polysorbate 80 (Tween 80) surfactants against crude oil have been investigated in presence of sodium chloride (NaCl) and alkalis viz. sodium hydroxide (NaOH), sodium carbonate (Na 2 CO 3 ), ammonium hydroxides (NH 4 OH), sodium metaborate(SMB) and
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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on the performance of a chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process was investigated.
Abstract: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes have a great potential to maximize oil recovery factor of the existing reservoirs, where a significant volume of the unrecovered oil after conventional methods is targeted. Application of chemical EOR techniques includes the process of injecting different types of chemicals into a reservoir to improve the overall sweep efficiency. Surfactant flooding is one of the chemical EOR used to reduce the oil–water interfacial tension and to mobilize residual oil toward producing wells. Throughout the process of surfactant flooding, selecting a suitable surfactant for the reservoir conditions is quite challenging. Surfactants tend to be the major factor associated with the cost of an EOR process, and losing surfactants leads to substantial economic losses. This process could encounter a significant loss of surfactant due to adsorption into the porous media. Surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH were found to be as the main factors that influence the surfactant adsorption on reservoir rocks. Most of the research has been conducted in low-temperature and low-salinity conditions. Only limited studies were conducted in high-temperature and high-salinity (HT/HS) conditions due to the challenging for implementation of surfactant flooding in these conditions. This paper, therefore, focuses on the reviews of the studies conducted on surfactant adsorption for different surfactant types on different reservoir rocks under different reservoir conditions, and the influence of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the equilibrium adsorption and kinetics of an anionic surfactant synthesized from soap-nut fruit on sandstone, carbonate and bentonite clay as representative of reservoir rocks were investigated by FE-SEM, XRD and BET surface area analysis.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review of the use of sorbents and biosorbents to treat polluted aqueous effluents containing dyes:organics or metal ions has been conducted.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the rate of adsorption of persistent organic compounds on granular carbon is quite low and the rate is partially a function of the pore size distribution of the adsorbent, of the molecular size and configuration of the solute, and of the relative electrokinetic properties of adsorbate and adsorbents.
Abstract: Laboratory investigations show that rates of adsorption of persistent organic compounds on granular carbon are quite low. Intraparticle diffusion of solute appears to control the rate of uptake, thus the rate is partially a function of the pore size distribution of the adsorbent, of the molecular size and configuration of the solute, and of the relative electrokinetic properties of adsorbate and adsorbent. Systemic factors such as temperature and pH will influence the rates of adsorption; rates increase with increasing temperature and decrease with increasing pH. The effect of initial concentration of solute is of considerable significance, the rate of uptake being a linear function of the square-root of concentration within the range of experimentation. Relative reaction rates also vary reciprocally with the square of the diameter of individual carbon particle for a given weight of carbon. Based on the findings of the research, fluidized-bed operation is suggested as an efficient means of using adsorption for treatment of waters and waste waters.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Gibbs equation is used to calculate the area per Molecule at the interface by using the Gibbs Equation (GEE) of the Gibbs equilibrium. But the Gibbs equations are not applicable to surface-active agents.
Abstract: Preface. 1 Characteristic Features of Surfactants. A Conditions Under Which Interfacial Phenomena and Surfactants Become Significant. B General Structural Features and Behavior of Surfactants. 1 General Use of Charge Types. 2 General Effects of the Nature of the Hydrophobic Group. I Characteristic Features and Uses of Commercially Available Surfactants. I.A Anionics. 1 Carboxylic Acid Salts. 2 Sulfonic Acid Salts. 3 Sulfuric Acid Ester Salts. 4 Phosphoric and Polyphosphoric Acid Esters. 5 Fluorinated Anionics. I.B Cationics. 1 Long-Chain Amines and Their Salts. 2 Acylated Diamines and Polyamines and Their Salts. 3 Quaternary Ammonium Salts. 4 Polyoxyethylenated (POE) Long-Chain Amines. 5 Quaternized POE Long-Chain Amines. 6 Amine Oxides. I.C Nonionics. 1 POE Alkylphenols, Alkylphenol "Ethoxylates". 2 POE Straight-Chain Alcohols, Alcohol "Ethoxylates". 3 POE Polyoxypropylene glycols. 4 POE Mercaptans. 5 Long-Chain Carboxylic Acid Esters. 6 Alkanolamine "Condensates," Alkanolamides. 7 Tertiary Acetylenic Glycols and Their "Ethoxylates". 8 POE Silicones. 9 N-Alkylpyrrolidones. 10 Alkylpolyglycosides. I.D Zwitterionics. 1 pH-Sensitive Zwitterionics. 2 pH-Insensitive Zwitterionics. I.E Newer Surfactants Based Upon Renewable Raw Materials. 1 a-Sulfofatty Acid Methyl Esters (SME). 2 Acylated Aminoacids. 3 N-Acyl L-Glutamates (AG). 4 N-Acyl Glycinates. 5 N-Acyl DL-Alaninates. 6 Other Acylated Aminoacids. 7 Nopol Alkoxylates. II Environmental Effects of Surfactants. II.A Surfactant Biodegradability. II.B Surfactant Toxicity To and Bioconcentration in Marine Organisms. III Some Useful Generalizations. References. Problems. 2 Adsorption of Surface-Active Agents at Interfaces: The Electrical Double Layer. I The Electrical Double Layer. II Adsorption at the Solid-Liquid Interface. II.A Mechanisms of Adsorption and Aggregation. II.B Adsorption Isotherms. 1 The Langmuir Adsorption Isotherm. II.C Adsorption from Aqueous Solution Onto Adsorbents with Strongly Charged Sites. 1 Ionic Surfactants. 2 Nonionic Surfactants. 3 pH Change. 4 Ionic Strength. 5 Temperature. II.D Adsorption from Aqueous Solution Onto Nonpolar, Hydrophobic Adsorbents. II.E Adsorption from Aqueous Solution Onto Polar Adsorbents without Strongly Charged Sites. II.F Effects of Adsorption from Aqueous Solution on the Surface Properties of the Solid Adsorbent. 1 Substrates with Strongly Charged Sites. 2 Nonpolar Adsorbents. II.G Adsorption from Nonaqueous Solution. II.H Determination of the Specific Surface Areas of Solids. III Adsorption at the Liquid-Gas (L/G) and Liquid-Liquid (L/L) Interfaces. III.A The Gibbs Adsorption Equation 60 III.B Calculation of Surface Concentrations and Area per Molecule at the Interface By Use of the Gibbs Equation. III.C Effectiveness of Adsorption at the L/G and L/L Interfaces. III.D The Szyszkowski, Langmuir, and Frumkin Equations. III.E Efficiency of Adsorption at the L/G and L/L Interfaces. III.F Calculation of Thermodynamic Parameters of Adsorption at the L/G and L/L Interfaces. III.G Adsorption from Mixtures of Two Surfactants. References. Problems. 3 Micelle Formation by Surfactants. I The Critical Micelle Concentration (CMC). II Micellar Structure and Shape. II.A The Packing Parameter. II.B Surfactant Structure and Micellar Shape. II.C Liquid Crystals. III Micellar Aggregation Numbers. IV Factors Affecting the Value of the CMC in Aqueous Media. IV.A Structure of the Surfactant. 1 The Hydrophobic Group. 2 The Hydrophobic Group. 3 The Counterion in Ionic Surfactants: Degree of Binding to the Micelle 139 4 Empirical Equations. IV.B Electrolyte. IV.C Organic Additives. 1 Class I Materials. 2 Class II Materials. IV.D The Presence of a Second Liquid Phase. IV.E Temperature. V Micellization in Aqueous Solution and Adsorption at the Aqueous Solution-Air or Aqueous Solution-Hydrocarbon Interface. V.A. The CMC/C20 ratio. VI CMCs in Nonaqueous Media. VII Equations for the CMC Based on Theoretical Considerations. VIII Thermodynamic Parameters of Micellization. IX Mixed Micelle Formation in Mixtures of Two Surfactants. References. Problems. 4 Solubilization by Solutions of Surfactants: Micellar Catalysis. I Solubilization in Aqueous Media. I.A Locus of Solubilization. I.B Factors Determining the Extent of Solubilization. 1 Structure of the Surfactant. 2 Structure of the Solubilizate. 3 Effect of Electrolyte. 4 Effect of Monomeric Organic Additives. 5 Effect of Polymeric Organic Additives. 6 Mixed Anionic-Nonionic Micelles. 7 Effect of Temperature. 8 Hydrotropy. I.C Rate of Solubilization. II Solubilization in Nonaqueous Solvents. II.A Secondary Solubilization. III Some Effects of Solubilization. III.A Effect of Solubilization on Micellar Structure. III.B Change in the Cloud Points of Aqueous Solutions of Nonionic Surfactants. III.C Reduction of the CMC. III.D Miscellaneous Effects of Solubilization. IV Micellar Catalysis. References. Problems. 5 Reduction of Surface and Interfacial Tension by Surfactants. I Efficiency in Surface Tension Reduction. II Effectiveness in Surface Tension Reduction. II.A The Krafft Point. II.B Interfacial Parameter and Chemical Structural Effects. III Liquid-Liquid Interfacial Tension Reduction. III.A Ultralow Interfacial Tension. IV Dynamic Surface Tension Reduction. IV.A Dynamic Regions. IV.B Apparent Diffusion Coefficients of Surfactants. References. Problems. 6 Wetting and Its Modification by Surfactants. I Wetting Equilibria. I.A Spreading Wetting. 1 The Contact Angle. 2 Measurement of the Contact Angle. I.B Adhesional Wetting. I.C Immersional Wetting. I.D Adsorption and Wetting. II Modification of Wetting by Surfactants. II.A General Considerations. II.B Hard Surface (Equilibrium) Wetting. II.C Textile (Nonequilibrium) Wetting. II.D Effect of Additives. III Synergy in Wetting by Mixtures of Surfactants. IV Superspreading (Superwetting). References. Problems. 7 Foaming and Antifoaming by Aqueous Solutions of Surfactants. I Theories of Film Elasticity. II Factors Determining Foam Persistence. II.A Drainage of Liquid in the Lamellae. II.B Diffusion of Gas Through the Lamellae. II.C Surface Viscosity. II.D The Existence and Thickness of the Electrical Double Layer. III The Relation of Surfactant Chemical Structure to Foaming in Aqueous Solution. III.A Efficiency as a Foaming Agent. III.B Effectiveness as a Foaming Agent. III.C Low-Foaming Surfactants. IV Foam-Stabilizing Organic Additives. V Antifoaming. VI Foaming of Aqueous Dispersions of Finely Divided Solids. References. Problems. 8 Emulsification by Surfactants. I Macroemulsions. I.A Formation. I.B Factors Determining Stability. 1 Physical Nature of the Interfacial Film. 2 Existence of an Electrical or Steric Barrier to Coalescence on the Dispersed Droplets. 3 Viscosity of the Continuous Phase. 4 Size Distribution of Droplets. 5 Phase Volume Ratio. 6 Temperature. I.C Inversion. I.D Multiple Emulsions. I.E Theories of Emulsion Type. 1 Qualitative Theories. 2 Kinetic Theory of Macroemulsion Type. II Microemulsions. III Nanoemulsions. IV Selection of Surfactants as Emulsifying Agents. IV.A The HLB Method. IV.B The PIT Method. IV.C The HLD Method. V Demulsification. References. Problems. 9 Dispersion and Aggregation of Solids in Liquid Media by Surfactants. I Interparticle Forces. I.A Soft (electrostatic) and van der Waals Forces: DLVO Theory. 1 Limitations of the DLVO Theory. I.B Steric Forces. II Role of the Surfactant in the Dispersion Process. II.A Wetting of the Powder. II.B Deaggregation or Fragmentation of Particle Clusters. II.C Prevention of Reaggregation. III Coagulation or Flocculation of Dispersed Solids by Surfactants. III.A Neutralization or Reduction of the Potential at the Stern Layer of the Dispersed Particles. III.B Bridging. III.C Reversible Flocculation. IV The Relation of Surfactant Chemical Structure to Dispersing Properties. IV.A Aqueous Dispersions. IV.B Nonaqueous Dispersions. References. Problems. 10 Detergency and Its Modification by Surfactants. I Mechanisms of the Cleaning Process. I.A Removal of Soil from Substrate. 1 Removal of Liquid Soil. 2 Removal of Solid Soil. I.B Suspension of the Soil in the Bath and Prevention of Redeposition. 1 Solid Particulate Soils: Formation of Electrical and Steric Barriers Soil Release Agents. 2 Liquid Oily Soil. I.C Skin Irritation. I.D Dry Cleaning. II Effect of Water Hardness. II.A Builders. II.B Lime Soap Dispersing Agents. III Fabric Softeners. IV The Relation of the Chemical Structure of the Surfactant to Its Detergency. IV.A Effect of Soil and Substrate. 1 Oily Soil. 2 Particulate Soil. 3 Mixed Soil. IV.B Effect of the Hydrophobic Group of the Surfactant. IV.C Effect of the Hydrophilic Group of the Surfactant. IV.D Dry Cleaning. References. Problems. 11 Molecular Interactions and Synergism in Mixtures of Two Surfactants. I Evaluation of Molecular Interaction Parameters. I.A Notes on the Use of Equations 11.1-11.4. II Effect of Chemical Structure and Molecular Environment on Molecular Interaction Parameters. III Conditions for the Existence of Synergism. III.A Synergism or Antagonism (Negative Synergism) in Surface or Interfacial Tension Reduction Efficiency. III.B Synergism or Antagonism (Negative Synergism) in Mixed Micelle Formation in Aqueous Medium. III.C Synergism or Antagonism (Negative Synergism) in Surface or Interfacial Tension Reduction Effectiveness. III.D Selection of Surfactants Pairs for Optimal Interfacial Properties. IV The Relation between Synergism in Fundamental Surface Properties and Synergism in Surfactant Applications. References. Problems. 12 Gemini Surfactants. I Fundamental Properties. II Interaction with Other Surfactant. III Performance Properties. References. Problems. Answers to Problems. Index.
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