A comprehensive review on CO2 thickeners for CO2 mobility control in enhanced oil recovery: Recent advances and future outlook

EX Ricky, GC Mwakipunda, EE Nyakilla… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) has been utilized to recover the residual oil from the geological
reservoirs through enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods for over 50 years. Despite its long …

A comprehensive review direct methods to overcome the limitations of gas injection during the EOR process

M Shafiei, Y Kazemzadeh, M Escrochi, FB Cortés… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Among the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods, gas-based EOR methods are
very popular all over the world. The gas injection has a high ability to increase microscopic …

Application of Thickeners in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide EOR and Fracturing: A Review

Y Sun, L He, C Li, C Lu, X Li - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
Supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) exhibits many advantages in the oil field, such as the
facile creation of complex fractures, the mitigation of water sensitivity issues, and enhanced …

Predicting the equilibrium solubility of CO2 in alcohols, ketones, and glycol ethers: Application of ensemble learning and deep learning approaches

H Bahmaninia, M Shateri, S Atashrouz, K Jabbour… - Fluid Phase …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present work, the solubility of CO 2 in solutions comprising various physical solvents
(Methanol, Ethanol, Propylene Glycol, n-Pentanol, n-Butanol, n-Propanol, Ethylene Glycol, 2 …

The thickening mechanism of CO2 thickener poly (vinyl acetate-vinyl ether)(PVAEE): A molecular dynamics study

Y Du, S Liu, S Yuan - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper performed molecular dynamics simulation to calculate the effect of poly (vinyl
acetate-vinyl ether)(PVAEE) on the viscosity of CO 2 and its thickening mechanism. The …

Promoting dissolution behaviors of low-carbon alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether in CO2 by molecular structure optimization and adding cosolvent

H Zhang, H Gong, J Wu, H Li, W Lv, H Sun, L Xu… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The low-carbon alcohol polyoxyethylene (EO) polyoxypropylene (PO) ether surfactants have
significant application potential in CO 2 flooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in water …

A double-population chaotic self-adaptive evolutionary dynamics model for the prediction of supercritical carbon dioxide solubility in polymers

Y Wu, H Zhang, M Li, S Sheng… - Royal Society Open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Solubility of gas in polymers is an important physico-chemical property of foam materials
and widely used in the preparation and modification of new materials. Under the conditions …