Title: Evaluation of ionanofluid for chemical-enhanced oil recovery for matured crude oil reservoirs

Authors: Ankit Sharma; Abhijit Kakati; Sivabalan Sakthivel; Prashant Jadhawar; Jitendra Sangwai

Addresses: Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600096, India ' Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600096, India; School of Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar – 382007, India ' Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600096, India ' School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building (Office FN350), Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland ' Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600096, India

Abstract: The purpose of the present work is to evaluate applicability of ionanofluids for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. Two different ionanofluids have been prepared for this study by adding silica nanoparticles into two different ionic liquids (tripropyl ammonium sulphate and triethyl ammonium sulphate) solutions. The effects of nanoparticle and ionic liquid on the interfacial tension of crude oil-nanofluid and their enhanced oil recovery performances have been evaluated. Ionanofluids are found to have the ability to reduce the interfacial tension to a significantly low value. The results of this study also indicate that ionanofluids has much higher enhanced oil recovery efficiencies in comparison to nanofluid and ionic liquid alone. Therefore, ionanofluids have the potential to be used as an excellent future EOR agent. [Received: February 11, 2021; Accepted: April 13, 2021]

Keywords: enhanced oil recovery; EOR; interfacial tension; ionic liquid; ionanofluid; nanofluid.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOGCT.2022.121266

International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, 2022 Vol.29 No.4, pp.329 - 342

Received: 21 Dec 2019
Accepted: 13 Apr 2021
Published online: 03 Mar 2022 *

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