Adsorption analysis of natural anionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery: The role of mineralogy, salinity, alkalinity and nanoparticles

N Saxena, A Kumar, A Mandal - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Anionic surfactants are widely used as an effective chemical for enhanced oil recovery
because of their unique characteristics of reducing interfacial tension (IFT) between the …

Bio-based surfactant for enhanced oil recovery: Interfacial properties, emulsification and rock-fluid interactions

N Saxena, A Goswami, PK Dhodapkar… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Anionic surfactants are very effective for application in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in
sandstone reservoirs because of their promising surface-active properties. Considering the …

Critical investigation of zwitterionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery from both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs: Adsorption, wettability alteration and imbibition …

A Kumar, A Mandal - Chemical Engineering Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Surfactant flooding, a proven method of oil recovery from conventional reservoirs, is limited
due to its adsorption on reservoir rocks. Surfactant adsorption leads to modification of …

Synthesis, characterization and enhanced oil recovery potential analysis through simulation of a natural anionic surfactant

N Saxena, A Saxena, A Mandal - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019 - Elsevier
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) especially surfactant slug injection has received a great
attention as an oil recovery technique. Surfactants are capable in reducing the interfacial …

The effect of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption for chemical enhanced oil recovery: a review

AF Belhaj, KA Elraies, SM Mahmood, NN Zulkifli… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Experimental and modeling studies on adsorption of a nonionic surfactant on sandstone minerals in enhanced oil recovery process with surfactant flooding

A Barati-Harooni, A Najafi-Marghmaleki, A Tatar… - Journal of Molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Surfactants have ability to reduce the interfacial tension between residual oil and water and
give high recovery factor. Adsorption of surfactant onto the solid surface makes it less …

Adsorption of a new nonionic surfactant on carbonate minerals in enhanced oil recovery: experimental and modeling study

A Barati, A Najafi, A Daryasafar, P Nadali… - … Research and Design, 2016 - Elsevier
Surfactants have ability to mobilize the residual oil trapped in porous medium and resulting
higher oil recovery by altering interfacial tension between residual oil and water. However …

Toward mechanistic understanding of natural surfactant flooding in enhanced oil recovery processes: the role of salinity, surfactant concentration and rock type

SJD Sofla, M Sharifi, AH Sarapardeh - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2016 - Elsevier
Surfactant flooding has emerged as an interesting enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process
due to wettability alteration and reduction of oil-water interfacial tension (IFT). Environmental …

Novel green surfactant made from L-aspartic acid as enhancer of oil production from sandstone reservoirs: Wettability, IFT, microfluidic, and core flooding assessments

M Deljooei, G Zargar, V Nooripoor, MA Takassi… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surfactant flooding is a proven chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (cEOR) method.
Commonly/commercially available surfactants impose adverse impacts on the environment …

Interfacial behaviour, wettability alteration and emulsification characteristics of a novel surfactant: Implications for enhanced oil recovery

N Pal, N Saxena, KVD Laxmi, A Mandal - Chemical Engineering Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The application of surfactants in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes aids in reducing
interfacial tension at the oil-aqueous interface as well as altering the wetting nature of the …