A comprehensive review of experimental studies of nanoparticles-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery

N Yekeen, MA Manan, AK Idris… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles-stabilized foam has recently attracted increasing attention for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) applications, largely due to the potentially high stability of these foams in the …

[HTML][HTML] Pickering foams and parameters influencing their characteristics

P Amani, R Miller, A Javadi, M Firouzi - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pickering foams are available in many applications and have been continually gaining
interest in the last two decades. Pickering foams are multifaceted, and their characteristics …

Shape-transformable liquid metal nanoparticles in aqueous solution

Y Lin, Y Liu, J Genzer, MD Dickey - Chemical science, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Stable suspensions of eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn) liquid metal nanoparticles form by
probe-sonicating the metal in an aqueous solution. Positively-charged molecular or …

Nanoparticles as foam stabilizer: Mechanism, control parameters and application in foam flooding for enhanced oil recovery

Y Zhang, Q Liu, H Ye, LL Yang, D Luo… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, numbers of studies have been conducted by using nanoparticles as novel foam
stabilizer to enhance oil recovery (EOR). However, previous studies have not classified the …

Experimental investigation of minimization in surfactant adsorption and improvement in surfactant-foam stability in presence of silicon dioxide and aluminum oxide …

N Yekeen, MA Manan, AK Idris, AM Samin… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
Foams stabilized by a mixture of nanoparticles and surfactants are presently being
considered for improving the poor macroscopic sweep efficiency of gas enhanced oil …

Foams Stabilized by In Situ-Modified Nanoparticles and Anionic Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery

W Yang, T Wang, Z Fan, Q Miao, Z Deng, Y Zhu - Energy & Fuels, 2017 - ACS Publications
Foams have been widely used in oilfields for effective profile control and displacement.
However, foams stabilized by surfactants lack long-term stability, especially in an oil …

Synergistic effects of nanoparticles and surfactants on n-decane-water interfacial tension and bulk foam stability at high temperature

N Yekeen, E Padmanabhan, AK Idris - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The synergistic effects of nanoparticles and surfactants on decane-water interfacial tension,
and bulk foam stability at high temperature was investigated in this study. The interfacial …

Effect of nanoparticles on foaming agent and the foamed concrete

L Hou, J Li, Z Lu, Y Niu, J Jiang, T Li - Construction and Building Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles are expected to improve properties of foaming agents and that prefabricated
foams, further the performances of foamed concrete. In this study, foaming agents were …

Enhancing N2 and CO2 foam stability by surfactants and nanoparticles at high temperature and various salinities

A Bello, A Ivanova, A Cheremisin - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
To keep up with the ever-growing global energy demand, the petroleum industry has shifted
its attention to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods, which ensure 30%–60% of residual …

[HTML][HTML] Review of foam stability in porous media: The effect of coarsening

W Yu, MY Kanj - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Foam stability in porous media is crucial to industrial applications such as enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) and CO 2 geological sequestration. Though many studies of foam stability in …