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Silica nanofluids in polyacrylamide with and without surfactant: Viscosity, surface tension, and interfacial tension with liquid paraffin
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In this article, stable nanofluids of an oilfield polymer (polyacrylamide, PAM) with and without surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) have been formulated and examined for IFT reduction of paraffin oils such as n-decane, n-hexane,n-pentane, and n-heptane.About:
This article is published in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 83 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Liquid paraffin & Enhanced oil recovery.read more
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Interfacial tension of alkane + water systems
TL;DR: In this article, the emergent drop image was captured and sent to the video recording system, and a new correlation was found to predict interfacial tension as a function of temperature (t) and the number of carbon atoms (n) with a deviation of less than 0.05% from experimental values.
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A State-of-the-Art Review of Nanoparticles Application in Petroleum with a Focus on Enhanced Oil Recovery
TL;DR: A review on the application of nanoparticles and technology in the petroleum industry, and focusing on enhanced oil recovery (EOR), is provided in this paper, where the authors present a wide range of knowledge and expertise related to the nanotechnology application in general, and the EOR process in particular.
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Recent advances in application of nanotechnology in chemical enhanced oil recovery: Effects of nanoparticles on wettability alteration, interfacial tension reduction, and flooding
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the latest studies about various applications of nanoparticles (NPs) within the surfactant (S), polymer (P), surfactants polymers (SP), alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP), and low salinity waterflooding processes is presented.
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Recent advances and prospects in polymeric nanofluids application for enhanced oil recovery
Afeez O. Gbadamosi,Radzuan Junin,Muhammad A. Manan,Nurudeen Yekeen,Augustine Agi,Jeffrey O. Oseh +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the recent advances and prospects of the application of polymeric nanofluids in crucial aspects of EOR such as stability and adsorption, wettability alteration, interfacial tension reduction and emulsion stability, and rheology.
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Thermal conductivity and viscosity optimization of nanodiamond-Co3O4/EG (40:60) aqueous nanofluid using NSGA-II coupled with RSM
TL;DR: In this article, both minimizing the viscosity and maximizing the thermal conductivity of ND-Co3O4/EG (40:60) aqueous nanofluid have been considered.
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International Tables of the Surface Tension of Water
TL;DR: In this article, a table for the surface tension of water from 0.01 to 374°C and an interpolating equation which represents the values in the table to well within their estimated uncertainties are presented.
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Dispersion behavior and thermal conductivity characteristics of Al2O3–H2O nanofluids
TL;DR: In this paper, Al2O3-H2O nanofluids were synthesized, their dispersion behaviors and thermal conductivity in water were investigated under different pH values and different sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS) concentration.
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Factors Controlling the Stability of Colloid-Stabilized Emulsions: I. An Experimental Investigation
David E. Tambe,Mukul M. Sharma +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of colloidal particles on the stability of oil-water emulsions was investigated and it was shown that these solids stabilize emulsion both by providing steric hindrance to drop-drop coalescence and by modifying the rheological properties of the interfacial region.
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Interfacial Tension of Alkane + Water Systems†
TL;DR: In this article, the emergent drop image was captured and sent to the video recording system, where the authors measured interfacial tension using a numerical method based on a fourth degree spline interpolation of the drop profile.
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Nanofluid for enhanced oil recovery
TL;DR: An experimental study of nanofluids intended for enhanced oil recovery is presented in this paper, where an aqueous solution of anionic surface-active agents with addition of light non-ferrous metal nanoparticles was used as the focus of the study.