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Jia J, Yang S, Li J, Liang Y, Li R, Tsuji T, Niu B, Peng B. Review of the Interfacial Structure and Properties of Surfactants in Petroleum Production and Geological Storage Systems from a Molecular Scale Perspective. Molecules 2024; 29:3230. [PMID: 38999184 PMCID: PMC11243718 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29133230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2024] [Revised: 07/02/2024] [Accepted: 07/04/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024] Open
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Surfactants play a crucial role in tertiary oil recovery by reducing the interfacial tension between immiscible phases, altering surface wettability, and improving foam film stability. Oil reservoirs have high temperatures and high pressures, making it difficult and hazardous to conduct lab experiments. In this context, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a valuable tool for complementing experiments. It can effectively study the microscopic behaviors (such as diffusion, adsorption, and aggregation) of the surfactant molecules in the pore fluids and predict the thermodynamics and kinetics of these systems with a high degree of accuracy. MD simulation also overcomes the limitations of traditional experiments, which often lack the necessary temporal-spatial resolution. Comparing simulated results with experimental data can provide a comprehensive explanation from a microscopic standpoint. This article reviews the state-of-the-art MD simulations of surfactant adsorption and resulting interfacial properties at gas/oil-water interfaces. Initially, the article discusses interfacial properties and methods for evaluating surfactant-formed monolayers, considering variations in interfacial concentration, molecular structure of the surfactants, and synergistic effect of surfactant mixtures. Then, it covers methods for characterizing microstructure at various interfaces and the evolution process of the monolayers' packing state as a function of interfacial concentration and the surfactants' molecular structure. Next, it examines the interactions between surfactants and the aqueous phase, focusing on headgroup solvation and counterion condensation. Finally, it analyzes the influence of hydrophobic phase molecular composition on interactions between surfactants and the hydrophobic phase. This review deepened our understanding of the micro-level mechanisms of oil displacement by surfactants and is beneficial for screening and designing surfactants for oil field applications.
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- Jihui Jia
- State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanisms and Effective Development, Beijing 100083, China
- Unconventional Petroleum Research Institute, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
- International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (ICNER), Kyushu University, Fukuoka 8190395, Japan
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- State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanisms and Effective Development, Beijing 100083, China
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- Unconventional Petroleum Research Institute, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
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- Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 1138656, Japan
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- School of Urban Construction, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou 310015, China
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- International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (ICNER), Kyushu University, Fukuoka 8190395, Japan
- Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 1138656, Japan
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- CNPC Engineering Technology Research Company Limited, Tianjin 300451, China
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- Unconventional Petroleum Research Institute, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
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Xie M, Zhang M, Jin Z. Machine Learning-Based Interfacial Tension Equations for (H 2 + CO 2)-Water/Brine Systems over a Wide Range of Temperature and Pressure. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:5369-5377. [PMID: 38417158 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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Large-scale underground hydrogen storage (UHS) plays a vital role in energy transition. H2-brine interfacial tension (IFT) is a crucial parameter in structural trapping in underground geological locations and gas-water two-phase flow in subsurface porous media. On the other hand, cushion gas, such as CO2, is often co-injected with H2 to retain reservoir pressure. Therefore, it is imperative to accurately predict the (H2 + CO2)-water/brine IFT under UHS conditions. While there have been a number of experimental measurements on H2-water/brine and (H2 + CO2)-water/brine IFT, an accurate and efficient (H2 + CO2)-water/brine IFT model under UHS conditions is still lacking. In this work, we use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to generate an extensive (H2 + CO2)-water/brine IFT databank (840 data points) over a wide range of temperature (from 298 to 373 K), pressure (from 50 to 400 bar), gas composition, and brine salinity (up to 3.15 mol/kg) for typical UHS conditions, which is used to develop an accurate and efficient machine learning (ML)-based IFT equation. Our ML-based IFT equation is validated by comparing to available experimental data and other IFT equations for various systems (H2-brine/water, CO2-brine/water, and (H2 + CO2)-brine/water), rendering generally good performance (with R2 = 0.902 against 601 experimental data points). The developed ML-based IFT equation can be readily applied and implemented in reservoir simulations and other UHS applications.
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- Minjunshi Xie
- School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Safe Mining of Deep Metal Mines, School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
- Key Laboratory of Liaoning Province on Deep Engineering and Intelligent Technology, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
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- School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada
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Yousefmarzi F, Haratian A, Mahdavi Kalatehno J, Keihani Kamal M. Machine learning approaches for estimating interfacial tension between oil/gas and oil/water systems: a performance analysis. Sci Rep 2024; 14:858. [PMID: 38195685 PMCID: PMC10776576 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51597-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/07/2024] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
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Interfacial tension (IFT) is a key physical property that affects various processes in the oil and gas industry, such as enhanced oil recovery, multiphase flow, and emulsion stability. Accurate prediction of IFT is essential for optimizing these processes and increasing their efficiency. This article compares the performance of six machine learning models, namely Support Vector Regression (SVR), Random Forests (RF), Decision Tree (DT), Gradient Boosting (GB), Catboosting (CB), and XGBoosting (XGB), in predicting IFT between oil/gas and oil/water systems. The models are trained and tested on a dataset that contains various input parameters that influence IFT, such as gas-oil ratio, gas formation volume factor, oil density, etc. The results show that SVR and Catboost models achieve the highest accuracy for oil/gas IFT prediction, with an R-squared value of 0.99, while SVR outperforms Catboost for Oil/Water IFT prediction, with an R-squared value of 0.99. The study demonstrates the potential of machine learning models as a reliable and resilient tool for predicting IFT in the oil and gas industry. The findings of this study can help improve the understanding and optimization of IFT forecasting and facilitate the development of more efficient reservoir management strategies.
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- Fatemeh Yousefmarzi
- Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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de Almeida JM, Ferreira CC, Bandeira L, Cunha RD, Coutinho-Neto MD, Homem-De-Mello P, Orestes E, Nascimento RSV. Synergistic Interaction of Hyperbranched Polyglycerols and Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide for Oil/Water Interfacial Tension Reduction: A Molecular Dynamics Study. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:9356-9365. [PMID: 37871185 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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Applying surfactants to reduce the interfacial tension (IFT) on water/oil interfaces is a proven technique. The search for new surfactants and delivery strategies is an ongoing research area with applications in many fields such as drug delivery through nanoemulsions and enhanced oil recovery. Experimentally, the combination of hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG) with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) substantially reduced the observed IFT of oil/water interface, 0.9 mN/m, while HPG alone was 5.80 mN/m and CTAB alone IFT was 8.08 mN/m. Previous simulations in an aqueous solution showed that HPG is a surfactant carrier. Complementarily, in this work, we performed classical molecular dynamics simulations on combinations of CTAB and HPG with one aliphatic chain to investigate further the interaction of this pair in oil interfaces and propose the mechanism of IFT decrease. Basically, from our results, one can observe that the IFT reduction comes from a combination of effects that have not been observed for other dual systems: (i) Due to the CTAB-HPG strong interaction, a weakening of their specific and isolated interactions with the water and oil phases occurs. (ii) Aggregates enlarge the interfacial area, turning it into a less ordered interface. (iii) The spread of individual molecules charge profiles leads to the much lower interfacial tension observed with the CTAB+HPG systems.
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- James Moraes de Almeida
- Ilum School of Science (CNPEM), Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil
- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André 09210-170, Brazil
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- Escola de Engenharia Industrial Metalúrgica de Volta Redonda, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda 24220-900, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André 09210-170, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André 09210-170, Brazil
- Departament de Farmácia i Tecnologia Farmacéutica, i Fisicoquímica, Facultat de Farmácia i Ciéncies de l'Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Química Teórica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André 09210-170, Brazil
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- Escola de Engenharia Industrial Metalúrgica de Volta Redonda, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda 24220-900, Brazil
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Omrani S, Ghasemi M, Singh M, Mahmoodpour S, Zhou T, Babaei M, Niasar V. Interfacial Tension-Temperature-Pressure-Salinity Relationship for the Hydrogen-Brine System under Reservoir Conditions: Integration of Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:12680-12691. [PMID: 37650690 PMCID: PMC10501201 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Hydrogen (H2) underground storage has attracted considerable attention as a potentially efficient strategy for the large-scale storage of H2. Nevertheless, successful execution and long-term storage and withdrawal of H2 necessitate a thorough understanding of the physical and chemical properties of H2 in contact with the resident fluids. As capillary forces control H2 migration and trapping in a subsurface environment, quantifying the interfacial tension (IFT) between H2 and the resident fluids in the subsurface is important. In this study, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation was employed to develop a data set for the IFT of H2-brine systems under a wide range of thermodynamic conditions (298-373 K temperatures and 1-30 MPa pressures) and NaCl salinities (0-5.02 mol·kg-1). For the first time to our knowledge, a comprehensive assessment was carried out to introduce the most accurate force field combination for H2-brine systems in predicting interfacial properties with an absolute relative deviation (ARD) of less than 3% compared with the experimental data. In addition, the effect of the cation type was investigated for brines containing NaCl, KCl, CaCl2, and MgCl2. Our results show that H2-brine IFT decreases with increasing temperature under any pressure condition, while higher NaCl salinity increases the IFT. A slight decrease in IFT occurs when the pressure increases. Under the impact of cation type, Ca2+ can increase IFT values more than others, i.e., up to 12% with respect to KCl. In the last step, the predicted IFT data set was used to provide a reliable correlation using machine learning (ML). Three white-box ML approaches of the group method of data handling (GMDH), gene expression programming (GEP), and genetic programming (GP) were applied. GP demonstrates the most accurate correlation with a coefficient of determination (R2) and absolute average relative deviation (AARD) of 0.9783 and 0.9767%, respectively.
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- Sina Omrani
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University
of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University
of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United
Kingdom
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- Institute
of Applied Geosciences, Geothermal Science and Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Group
of Geothermal Technologies, Technische Universität
Munchen, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- College
of Carbon Neutrality Future Technology, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), 102249 Beijing, China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University
of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, The University
of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United
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Li C, Gilbert B, Farrell S, Zarzycki P. Rapid Prediction of a Liquid Structure from a Single Molecular Configuration Using Deep Learning. J Chem Inf Model 2023. [PMID: 37307434 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c00472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Molecular dynamics simulation is an indispensable tool for understanding the collective behavior of atoms and molecules and the phases they form. Statistical mechanics provides accurate routes for predicting macroscopic properties as time-averages over visited molecular configurations - microstates. However, to obtain convergence, we need a sufficiently long record of visited microstates, which translates to the high-computational cost of the molecular simulations. In this work, we show how to use a point cloud-based deep learning strategy to rapidly predict the structural properties of liquids from a single molecular configuration. We tested our approach using three homogeneous liquids with progressively more complex entities and interactions: Ar, NO, and H2O under varying pressure and temperature conditions within the liquid state domain. Our deep neural network architecture allows rapid insight into the liquid structure, here probed by the radial distribution function, and can be used with molecular/atomistic configurations generated by either simulation, first-principle, or experimental methods.
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- Chunhui Li
- Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Zhou T, Qiu D, Wu Z, Alberti SAN, Bag S, Schneider J, Meyer J, Gámez JA, Gieler M, Reithmeier M, Seidel A, Müller-Plathe F. Compatibilization Efficiency of Graft Copolymers in Incompatible Polymer Blends: Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations Combined with Machine Learning. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Tianhang Zhou
- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Covestro Deutschland AG, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 60, 51373 Leverkusen, Germany
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- Covestro Deutschland AG, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 60, 51373 Leverkusen, Germany
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- Covestro Deutschland AG, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 60, 51373 Leverkusen, Germany
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- Covestro Deutschland AG, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 60, 51373 Leverkusen, Germany
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- Covestro Deutschland AG, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 60, 51373 Leverkusen, Germany
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- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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Molecular dynamics modeling and simulation of silicon dioxide-low salinity water nanofluid for enhanced oil recovery. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Alizadehmojarad AA, Fazelabdolabadi B, Vuković L. Surfactant-Controlled Mobility of Oil Droplets in Mineral Nanopores. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:12061-12067. [PMID: 33006895 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Polymer flooding is one of the widely used enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. However, tuning polymer properties to achieve improved performance in porous mineral rocks of diverse oil reservoirs remains one of the challenges of EOR processes. Here, we use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to examine decane/water mixtures with surfactant additives in calcite and kaolinite mineral nanopores and characterize surfactant properties associated with increased fluid mobility and improved wettability in planar and constricted nanopore geometries. Cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactants are found to modulate the contact angles of decane droplets and reduce the decane density on mineral surfaces. CTAC can enhance and unblock the flow of decane droplets through narrowing nanopores with constricted geometries while aiding in decane droplet shape deformation, whereas SDS leads to decane droplets stalling in front of constrictions in nanopores. We hypothesize that the inability of the cationic CTAC headgroup to form hydrogen bonds is one of the key factors leading to enhanced CTAC-coated decane flow through constricted nanopores. The obtained molecular view of equilibrium and dynamic properties of complex fluids typical of oil reservoirs can provide a basis for the future design of new molecules for EOR processes.
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- Ali A Alizadehmojarad
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Center for Exploration and Production Studies and Research, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
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Zhu K, Müller EA. Generating a Machine-Learned Equation of State for Fluid Properties. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:8628-8639. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Kezheng Zhu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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