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Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) Research |
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Surfactant Flooding IOR
Tremendous IOR potential - technical and economical barriers |
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Two-thirds of U.S. Oil Resource remains as IOR target |
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Surfactant EOR
-Technically possible for limited conditions |
Practical Barriers
- High chemical cost
- Not at high salinities/ Temp |
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Seek novel formulations
• More cost effective
• More robust
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Synergistic mixtures of surfactants
• Low IFT
• Displace oil efficiently |
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MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
Calculation of IFT |
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Objective:
Develop molecular simulation methods to calculate IFT versus surfactant chemical structure.
User results to guide investigation of new structures. |
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| Calculated IFT via Molecular Simulation has the same trend as Literature Data |
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(m+1) Ph C16S
M.W. = 381.6 |
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PEER Technology - Surfactant IOR:
1. Identifying novel surfactant formulations for IOR
2. Combine experimental study with fundamental th../eor_imagesy |
