Core Flooding of Complex Nanoscale Colloidal Dispersions for Enhanced Oil Recovery by in Situ Formation of Stable Oil-in-Water Pickering Emulsions

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2628-2635

  Yoon, Ki Youl ^a   Son, Han Am ^b,c   Choi, Sang Koo ^d   Kim, Jin Woong ^d   Sung, Won Mo ^b   Kim, Hyun Tae ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; DROPS; EMULSIFICATION; FLOODS; NANOPARTICLES; OIL WELL FLOODING; PHASE INTERFACES; SILICA; STABILITY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; WELL FLOODING;

4-STYRENESULFONIC ACIDS; DODECYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM BROMIDES; ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTIONS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; OIL WATER INTERFACES; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 84966349635     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b02806     Document Type: Article

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