New trends in biosurfactants: from renewable origin to green enhanced oil recovery applications

D Shaikhah, V Loise, R Angelico, M Porto, P Calandra… - Molecules, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes are technologies used in the oil and gas industry to
maximize the extraction of residual oil from reservoirs after primary and secondary recovery …

Current trends and prospects in quinoa research: An approach for strategic knowledge areas

DH Flórez‐Martínez, J Rodríguez‐Cortina… - Food Science & …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Currently, the demand for healthy consumption and the use of alternatives to dairy proteins
for the development of foods with good nutritional value are growing. Quinoa has received …

Review of the application of natural surfactants in enhanced oil recovery: state-of-the-art and perspectives

SM Hama, AK Manshad, JA Ali - Energy & Fuels, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Injecting surfactant by means of chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) has acquired
predominant attention in improving oil recovery by changing either fluid/rock and/or …

Biosurfactant derived from fenugreek seeds and its impact on wettability alteration, oil recovery, and effluent treatment of a rock system of mixed composition

A Singh, T Sharma, RS Kumar, M Arif - Energy & Fuels, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Surfactant flooding is a method practiced for chemically enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to
pursue oil displacement efficiency by lowering the interfacial tension and changing the …

Review on potential application of saponin-based natural surfactants for green chemical enhanced oil recovery: perspectives and progresses

CD Adenutsi, JN Turkson, L Wang, G Zhao… - Energy & …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Synthetic chemical surfactants deployed in the petroleum industry to improve oil recovery to
meet growing global energy demand are described to have detrimental environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Application of surfactants in enhancing oil recovery from tight carbonates: Physicochemical properties and core flooding experiments

O Massarweh, AS Abushaikha - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Surfactant formulations are optimized according to reservoir conditions to ensure their
efficiency in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). This experimental study aimed to examine the …

Design and performance evaluation of Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer slug of a natural surfactant of fenugreek in saline media for Foaming/Emulsification applications

A Singh, T Sharma - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The increasing demands of oil energy has created burden on conventional oil recovery
methods because of which use of synthetic chemicals is increasing and creating significant …

Application of a novel natural surfactant extracted from Avena Sativa for enhanced oil recovery during low salinity water flooding: Synergism of natural surfactant with …

B Sami, A Azdarpour, B Honarvar, M Nabipour… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The use of green, eco-friendly, efficient, and sustainable surfactants for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) is of great importance. In this study, a novel and unique natural surfactant …

Synergistic performance of an in-house synthesized cationic Gemini surfactant for enhanced oil recovery under harsh conditions

K Al-Azani, S Abu-Khamsin, M Alotaibi, MS Kamal… - Fuel, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Surfactant injection into hydrocarbon reservoirs is a proven method for enhanced oil
recovery, leveraging its ability to reduce interfacial tension between oil and water and …

Investigation on rheological characterization and salt tolerance potential of paraffinic O/W emulsions of natural surfactant for crude emulsification and mobilization

A Singh, A Raj Kashyap, M MS Abdullah… - Industrial & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
While the presence of long-chain paraffinic compounds in crude oil seriously impacts oil
production, they tend to form emulsions during flow through restricted pores. In turn, these …