Experimental and field applications of nanotechnology for enhanced oil recovery purposes: A review

S Davoodi, M Al-Shargabi, DA Wood… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Oil reservoir formation damage is a challenging issue associated with water and/or gas
reservoir flooding in secondary and tertiary oil recovery operations. Some enhanced oil …

Nanofluid research and applications: A review

J Li, X Zhang, B Xu, M Yuan - … Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanofluids have been widely used in various fields because of their unique thermal
conductivity. This paper reviews and evaluates the thermal conductivity of nanofluids …

Laboratory study and field application of amphiphilic molybdenum disulfide nanosheets for enhanced oil recovery

M Qu, T Liang, J Hou, Z Liu, E Yang, X Liu - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, spherical nanoparticles have been studied to enhance oil recovery (EOR)
worldwide owing to their remarkable properties. However, there is a lack of studies of …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of nanoparticles in enhanced oil recovery

A Sircar, K Rayavarapu, N Bist, K Yadav, S Singh - Petroleum Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles serve various purposes in the hydrocarbon industry which are utilized to
improve the volume of oil and gas production. Nanomaterials are used in petroleum …

Mixed convection heat transfer and entropy generation of MHD hybrid nanofluid in a cubic porous cavity with wavy wall and rotating cylinders

X Jiang, M Hatami, A Abderrahmane, O Younis… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current simulations are for the three-dimensional (3D) Fe 3 O 4/MWCNT-water hybrid
nanofluid flow within a 3D cubic enclosure filled with a porous medium. It was assumed that …

Experimental investigation, binary modelling and artificial neural network prediction of surfactant adsorption for enhanced oil recovery application

AF Belhaj, KA Elraies, MS Alnarabiji… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Throughout the application of enhanced oil recovery (EOR), surfactant adsorption is
considered the leading constraint on both the successful implementation and economic …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoscale heat and mass transport of magnetized 3-D chemically radiative hybrid nanofluid with orthogonal/inclined magnetic field along rotating sheet

A Ayub, Z Sabir, DN Le, AA Aly - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This work is related to the chemical process in nanomaterial that has prominent applications
in water-solubility, octanol-water partition coefficient, melting points, vapor pressure and …

Current developments and future outlook in nanofluid flooding: A comprehensive review of various parameters influencing oil recovery mechanisms

F Yakasai, MZ Jaafar, S Bandyopadhyay… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Utilization of nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has attracted great attention in
recent decades. However, various constraints influence fluid-fluid and fluid-rock interactions …

[HTML][HTML] Application of nanomaterial for enhanced oil recovery

T Liang, JR Hou, M Qu, JX **, I Raj - Petroleum Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanofluid offers more opportunities and challenges over the traditional surfactant and
polymer solutions during enhanced oil recovery (commonly referred to as tertiary oil …

Adsorption characteristics, isotherm, kinetics, and diffusion of nanoemulsion in tight sandstone reservoir

H Xu, Y Li, F Zhou, H Su, E Yao, J Hu, Z Chen - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, nanoemulsions have shown a high application potential in improving
hydrocarbon recovery from tight reservoirs. However, the adsorption characteristics …