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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.54, 304-315, October, 2017
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2017.06.005  Export Citation
Characterization of SPN Pickering emulsions for application in enhanced oil recovery
Narendra Kumar, Tushar Gaur, and Ajay Mandal†
  • Department of Petroleum Engineering, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad 826004, India
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Emulsion, stabilized by solid particles that get adsorb on to the surface of the interface is known as Pickering emulsion, which has potential application in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In presentstudy, a stable oil-in-water surfactant-polymer-nanoparticle (SPN) Pickering emulsion has been formulated using light mineral oil, carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC) and silica nanoparticles (SiO2) in presence of anionic surfactant, for use in EOR. The nanoparticles (NPs) show synergetic effect in presence of surfactant and polymer thus prevents the droplets from coalescence and lowers the interfacial tension (IFT) at the oil-water interface. The emulsion was characterized in terms of particle size, creaming behavior and zeta potential measurements. The viscosity remains stable in wide range temperature (30 -100 °C) indicating thermal stability of the Pickering emulsion. The emulsion exhibits pseudo plastic behavior in wide range of shear rate (1-1000 s-1). The investigation of viscoelastic properties (G' and G'') of the Pickering emulsion as a function of pressure (0-5 MPa) and temperature (30 - 100 °C) shows a stable value of G'' indicating better flow ability of the emulsion. The emulsions show viscous behavior below the specific frequency (SF) indicated by the crossing point between G' and G'' on the viscoelastic curve and elastic behavior above the SF. Flooding experiment was conducted on sand pack system to study the efficiency of Pickering emulsion in EOR and additional recovery of more than 24% was observed after conventional water flooding.
Keywords:Pickering emulsion;Enhanced oil recovery;Creaming index;Thermal stability;Viscoelastic properties
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