Generation of nanoparticle-stabilized emulsions in fractures

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1239-1250

  Roberts, M R ^a   Aminzadeh, B ^a   DiCarlo, D A ^a   Bryant, S L ^a   Huh, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENT FRACTURE; CRITICAL SHEAR RATES; DODECANE; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; NANO-PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; OIL/WATER EMULSION; ORGANIC PHASE; PHASE RATIOS; RESIDENCE TIME; ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURES; SAMPLE TUBE; SANDSTONE CORES; SURFACE-MODIFIED SILICA NANOPARTICLES; VOLUMETRIC RATIO;

CEMENTS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DISPERSIONS; EFFLUENTS; EMULSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; NANOPARTICLES; PARAFFINS; PRESSURE DROP; SANDSTONE; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84863993275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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