Utilization of surfactant-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery by adding nanoparticles

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2384-2394

  Sun, Qian ^a   Li, Zhaomin ^a   Li, Songyan ^a   Jiang, Lei ^a   Wang, Jiqian ^a   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; NANOPARTICLES; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; STABILITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ADSORPTION OF NANOPARTICLES; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; DILATIONAL VISCOELASTICITY; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; NITROGEN FOAM FLOODING; SOLUTION FLOODING; SURFACTANT-STABILIZED; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

FOAM CONTROL;

EID: 84899017469     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef402453b     Document Type: Article

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