Are there any potential applications for ZnO Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes? Can it be adopted as an injection tool to change some reservoir and fluid properties?
There are limited experimental works have been recently done to test the effectiveness of ZnO nano-materials to change some characteristics of petroleum reservoirs. For instance, ZnO may result in significant change the wettability of a carbonate reservoir rock from oil-wet alter to water-wet leading to decrease water cut and enhance oil recovery, as shown in the attached paper link.
http://www.scientific.net/JNanoR.26.9
https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/SPE-160847-MS
There are limited experimental works have been recently done to test the effectiveness of ZnO nano-materials to change some characteristics of petroleum reservoirs. For instance, ZnO may result in significant change the wettability of a carbonate reservoir rock from oil-wet alter to water-wet leading to decrease water cut and enhance oil recovery, as shown in the attached paper link.
http://www.scientific.net/JNanoR.26.9
https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/SPE-160847-MS
An interesting experiment;
Novel enhanced oil recovery method using dielectric zinc oxide nanoparticles activated by electromagnetic waves
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6136450&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6136450
I believe it can have good application with high H2S contained reservoir, either with drilling fluid or in-reservoir injection along with WF for example. You can't find many work published on this point, but I believe it is worth the investigation.
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