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ENERGY & FUELS
卷 28, 期 10, 页码 6221-6227出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ef5011995
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- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Project
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
In this paper, we evaluate nanoparticle-stabilized CO2 foam stability and effectiveness in enhanced oil recovery at the pore and micromodel scales. The nanoparticle-stabilized CO2 gas-in-brine foams maintain excellent stability within microconfined media and continue to be stable after 10 days, as compared to less than 1 day for surfactant foam. The nanoparticle-stabilized CO2 foams are shown to generate a 3-fold increase in oil recovery (an additional 15% initial oil in place), as compared to an otherwise similar CO2 gas flood. Fluorescence imaging is applied to quantify emulsion size distribution (down to 1 mu m) in both CO2 and nanoparticle-stabilized CO2 foam flood cases. Nanoparticle-stabilized CO2 foam flooding results in significantly smaller oil-in-water emulsion sizes with an average size of 1.7 mu m (similar to 80% smaller than a CO2 gas flood), with negligible impact on water-in-oil emulsions. The effectiveness of nanoparticle-stabilized CO2 foam is compared for representative light, medium, and heavy oils. All three oils show substantial additional oil recovery and a potentially valuable reservoir homogenization effect. Collectively, these results highlight the pore-scale dynamics, effectiveness, and potential for nanoparticle-stabilized foams in enhanced oil recovery.
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