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Experimental Investigation Of The Effect Of Vitagnus Plant Extract On Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Using Interfacial Tension (Ift) Reduction And Wettability Alteration Mechanisms, Seyed Ramin Mousavi Dashtaki, Jagar A. Ali, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Iman Nowrouzi, Amir H. Mohammadi, Alireza Keshavarz
Experimental Investigation Of The Effect Of Vitagnus Plant Extract On Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Using Interfacial Tension (Ift) Reduction And Wettability Alteration Mechanisms, Seyed Ramin Mousavi Dashtaki, Jagar A. Ali, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Iman Nowrouzi, Amir H. Mohammadi, Alireza Keshavarz
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
© 2020, The Author(s). Surfactant flooding is a chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) process wherein anionic, cationic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants are injected into oil reservoirs to produce more hydrocarbon. These chemical and industrial agents might cause some economic and environmental challenges. Recently, injection of natural surfactants, as new environmentally friendly EOR agents, for improving oil recovery has been proposed by researchers. In this study, the extract of Vitagnus, a natural surfactant, was used to minimize the interfacial tension (IFT) and alter the rock wettability towards the strong water-wet system, thereby improving the oil recovery from the carbonate rock The …
Effect Of Environment-Friendly Non-Ionic Surfactant On Interfacial Tension Reduction And Wettability Alteration; Implications For Enhanced Oil Recovery, Omid Mosalman Haghighi, Ghasem Zargar, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Muhammad Ali, Mohammad Ali Takassi, Jagar A. Ali, Alireza Keshavarz
Effect Of Environment-Friendly Non-Ionic Surfactant On Interfacial Tension Reduction And Wettability Alteration; Implications For Enhanced Oil Recovery, Omid Mosalman Haghighi, Ghasem Zargar, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Muhammad Ali, Mohammad Ali Takassi, Jagar A. Ali, Alireza Keshavarz
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Production from mature oil reservoirs can be optimized by using the surfactant flooding technique. This can be achieved by reducing oil and water interfacial tension (IFT) and modifying wettability to hydrophilic conditions. In this study, a novel green non-ionic surfactant (dodecanoyl-glucosamine surfactant) was synthesized and used to modify the wettability of carbonate reservoirs to hydrophilic conditions as well as to decrease the IFT of hydrophobic oil-water systems. The synthesized non-ionic surfactant was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and chemical shift nuclear magnetic resonance (HNMR) analyses. Further pH, turbidity, density, …