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... grafted 6 nm, 12 nm, and 20 nm silica nanoparticles with varying densities of polyethylene glycol (PEG) to prevent aggregation and dispersed them in either brine or deionized water (DI). We characterized the PEG-coated nanoparticles with thermogravimetric analysis and dynamic light scattering to determine...

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... injection wettability alteration silica np mechanism lsw wettability interaction flow in porous media upstream oil & gas differential pressure oil recovery silica nanoparticle nanofluid surfactant nanoparticle enhanced oil recovery Introduction Foroughi Asl et al. (2020...

... and 3D visualization techniques. In this study, advanced visualization techniques were used to study how hydrophilic silica nanoparticles change the wettability of a glass surface. First, we used interferograms of an oil drop resting on a nanoparticle-treated glass surface to analyze the effect...

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... the effects of bare silica nanoparticles on wettability and IFT using a contact angle goniometer. The results showed that the contact angle measurement on quartz plates had relatively large uncertainty while those on calcite plates showed a clear trend that the smaller the nanoparticle size and the larger...

... the core were measured in real time with CT scanner and pressure transducers respectively. Different front dynamics are seen of wetting and nonwetting phases and the stabilizing front is generated by Roof snap-off events. When CO 2 displaces brine in which surface treated silica nanoparticles...

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... of the challenges associated with current chemical or dye-based tracer technology are thermal degradation over time, phase separation, and tedious detection processes. To overcome these drawbacks environmentally friendly, multicolor silica nanoparticles as tracershavebeen proposed toprovide simpler and faster...

... oil showed that immiscible foams using SM-NP solution can recover significant amount of oil over water flood. chemical flooding methods concentration silica nanoparticle modifier adsorption pressure drop modifier concentration Upstream Oil & Gas surface coating sm-np solution...

... of discussion as well as debate. The most common phenomena observed during the injection of nanoparticles into a porous medium are: adsorption, desorption, blocking and transport ( Ju et al. , 2006 ; Bizmark et al. 2014 ). Recent work by Maghzi et al. (2011 , 2012 ) revealed that silica nanoparticles...

... as a diverting agent during CO 2 -EOR, and improve sweep efficiency. upstream oil & gas water iso-octane emulsion emulsion system emulsion nanoparticle concentration enhanced recovery silica nanoparticle experiment nanoparticle emulsion viscosity emulsion height percentage foam oil recovery...

... to withstand the high-temperature reservoir conditions for extended periods of time. They also have more robust stability because of the large adsorption energy required to bring the nanoparticles to the bubble interface. Silica nanoparticle-stabilized CO 2 -in-brine foams were generated by the co-injection...

... and to build an effective mud cake on shale surface and reduce fluid invasion. This paper presents laboratory data showing the positive impact of adding commercially available, inexpensive, non-modified silica nanoparticles (particle sizes vary from 5 nm to 22 nm) to water-based drilling muds and their effect...