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Gong, J. (author), Wang, Yuan (author), Kamarul Bahrim, Ridhwan Zhafri B. (author), Tewari, Raj Deo (author), Mahamad Amir, Mohammad Iqbal (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Foam is utilized in enhanced oil recovery and CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration. Surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) is a preferred approach for placing foam into reservoirs, due to it enhances gas injection and minimizes corrosion in facilities. Our previous studies with similar permeability cores show that during SAG injection, several banks occupy...journal article 2024
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Farajzadeh, R. (author), Glasbergen, G. (author), Karpan, V. (author), Mjeni, R. (author), Boersma, D. M. (author), Eftekhari, A. A. (author), Casquera Garcia, A. (author), Bruining, J. (author)Production of mature oil fields emits significant amount of CO<sub>2</sub> related to circulation and handling of large volumes of gas and water. This can be reduced either by (1) using a low-carbon energy source and/or (2) reducing the volumes of the non-hydrocarbon produced/injected fluids. This paper describes how improved oil recovery...journal article 2022
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Masulli, Marco (author), Liu, Z. (author), Guo, Feng Zhi (author), Li, Xue (author), Sudhölter, Ernst J. R. (author), Kumar, N. (author)Chemical loss such as surfactants and alkalis by adsorption to reservoir rock surface is an important issue in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Here, we investigated the adsorption behaviors of anionic surfactants and alkalis on silica for the first time as a function of temperature using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D). The...journal article 2022
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Battashi, M. (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Bimani, A. (author), Al Abri, M. (author), Mjeni, R. (author), Karpan, V. (author), Fadili, A. (author), van Wunnik, J. (author)This paper introduces new oil recovery mechanisms for oil recovery by polymer injection in heavy oil reservoirs with strong bottom aquifers. Due to unfavorable mobility ratio between aquifer water and oil and the development of the sharp cones significant amount of oil remains unswept. To overcome these issues, for the case demonstrated in...journal article 2022
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Zhou, F. (author)Ground-penetrating radar (GPR), usually working in the frequency from tens of megahertz to several gigahertz, is widely applied in mapping near-surface applications. In recent decades, GPR is frequently utilized for fluid-related applications, such as groundwater assessment, contaminant monitoring, and water-filled fracture detection, based on...doctoral thesis 2021
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Reducing anionic surfactant adsorption using polyacrylate as sacrificial agent investigated by QCM-DLiu, Z. (author), Hedayati, Pegah (author), Ghatkesar, M.K. (author), Sun, Weichao (author), Onay, Hayati (author), Groenendijk, Dirk (author), van Wunnik, Johannes (author), Sudhölter, Ernst J. R. (author)Surfactant losses by adsorption to rock surfaces make surfactant-based enhanced oil recovery economically less feasible. We investigated polyacrylate (PA) as a sacrificial agent in the reduction of anionic surfactant adsorption with focus on calcite surfaces by using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring. It was found that...journal article 2021
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Gong, J. (author), Flores Martinez, Wendy (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Kamarul Bahrim, Ridhwan Zhafri (author), Che Mamat, Che A Nasser Bakri (author), Tewari, Raj Deo (author), Mahamad Amir, Mohammad Iqbal (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) is a favored method of foam injection, which has been proved as an efficient way for enhancing oil recovery. However, foam flow is extremely complicated, and there are still unsolved problems for foam application. One is liquid injectivity. Our previous studies suggest that the injectivity in a SAG process is...journal article 2020
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Liu, Z. (author), Bode, Vincent (author), Hadayati, Pegah (author), Onay, Hayati (author), Sudhölter, Ernst J. R. (author)We have investigated the conditions of colloidal stability of silica nanoparticles smaller than 100 nm for their applications in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), especially pertaining to chemical flooding processes. Using zeta sizer and dynamic light scattering techniques, the stability of silica nanoparticle (SNP) dispersions has been...journal article 2020
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Liu, Z. (author), Hedayati, Pegah (author), Sudhölter, Ernst J. R. (author), Haaring, Robert (author), Shaik, A.R. (author), Kumar, N. (author)Adsorption behavior of surfactants to rock surfaces is an important issue in oil recovery, especially in the process of surfactant flooding. The surfactant loss through adsorption to rock surfaces makes such process economically less feasible. Here, we investigated the adsorption behavior of anionic surfactants (alcohol alkoxy sulfate, AAS)...journal article 2020
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Hussain, A.A.A. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Kamarul Bahrim, R. Z. (author), Pilus, R. M. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)As foam is injected into an oil reservoir, the region near an injector can become oil-free due to the relatively high capillary number. Foam created in this region encounters oil further out in the reservoir. The impact of oil on foam in porous media is usually investigated by co-injecting surfactant, gas and oil, or by injecting pre...journal article 2020
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Yáñez, Edgar (author), Ramirez, Andrea (author), Núñez-López, Vanessa (author), Castillo, Edgar (author), Faaij, André (author)The use of CO<sub>2</sub> for enhanced oil recovery (CO<sub>2</sub>-EOR) is a promising alternative for reducing the cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS). In this study the techno-economic potential of integrated CCS-EOR projects for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Colombian oil industry is estimated. For this purpose, a...journal article 2020
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Tang, J. (author)Foam has unique microstructure in pore networks and reduces gas mobility significantly, which improves considerably the sweep efficiency of gas injection. Foam injection is thus regarded as a promising enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology. One key to success of foam EOR is foam stability in presence of oil. This thesis seeks to understand...doctoral thesis 2019
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Janssen, M.T.G. (author), Pilus, Rashidah M. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)A laboratory study of principal immiscible gas flooding schemes is reported. Very well-controlled experiments on continuous gas injection, water-alternating-gas (WAG) and alkaline–surfactant–foam (ASF) flooding were conducted. The merits of WAG and ASF compared to continuous gas injection were examined. The impact of ultra-low oil–water (o/w)...journal article 2019
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Hussain, A.A.A. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Kamarul Bahrim, R. Z. (author), Pilus, R. M. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Dispersed and solubilized oil can impact bulk foam stability differently. Though aromatic components are more soluble in water than straight-chain aliphatic components, solubilized aromatics do not necessarily impact the stability of foam in bulk or porous media, whereas straight-chain aliphatic components can have a detrimental impact (Bergeron...journal article 2019
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Tang, J. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)We present a CT coreflood study of foam, both pre-generated and generated in-situ, displacing oil, as a function of oil type and saturation. Foam generation and propagation are reflected through sectional pressure measurements. Dual-energy CT imaging monitors in-time phase saturations. With an oil less harmful to foam (hexadecane), injection...journal article 2019
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Tang, J. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)We present a CT coreflood study of foam flow with two representative oils: hexadecane C<sub>16</sub> (benign to foam) and a mixture of 80 wt% C<sub>16</sub> and 20 wt% oleic acid (OA) (very harmful to foam). The purpose is to understand the transient dynamics of foam, both generated in-situ and pre-generated, as a function of oil saturation...conference paper 2019
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Salazar Castillo, R.O. (author), Ter Haar, Sterre F. (author), Ponners, Christopher G. (author), Bos, Martijn (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Foam can improve sweep efficiency in gas-injection-enhanced oil recovery. Surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) is a favored method of foam injection. Laboratory data indicate that foam can be non-Newtonian at low water fractional flow f<sub>w</sub>, and therefore during gas injection in a SAG process. We investigate the implications of this...journal article 2019
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De, S. (author), Krishnan, P. (author), van der Schaaf, J. (author), Kuipers, J. A.M. (author), Peters, E. A.J.F. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)Hypothesis Multiphase flow through porous media is important in a number of industrial, natural and biological processes. One application is enhanced oil recovery (EOR), where a resident oil phase is displaced by a Newtonian or polymeric fluid. In EOR, the two-phase immiscible displacement through heterogonous porous media is usually governed...journal article 2018
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Peksa, A.E. (author)The main scope of the work related to the physical and dynamical processes associated with the injection of carbonated water in porous media. Carbonated water flooding is an alternative for traditional CO2 flooding. Both methods have the potential to recover any oil left behind after primary and secondary recovery while storing CO2 at the same...doctoral thesis 2017
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Jones, S.A. (author), Laskaris, G. (author), Vincent-Bonnieu, S.Y.F. (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)We present a comparative study of foam coreflood experiments with various surfactant concentrations. Plots of apparent viscosity vs. injected gas fraction were obtained for surfactant concentrations at the critical micelle concentration and above. Bulk foam stability was measured for all concentrations and compared with the coreflood results....journal article 2016