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Experimental Study on the Application of Cellulosic Biopolymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Cores under Harsh Conditions

Polymer flooding is used to improve the viscosity of an injectant, thereby decreasing the mobility ratio and improving oil displacement efficiency in the reservoir. Thanks to their environmentally benign nature, natural polymers are receiving prodigious attention for enhanced oil recovery. Herein, t...

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Autores principales: Gbadamosi, Afeez, Zhou, Xianmin, Murtaza, Mobeen, Kamal, Muhammad Shahzad, Patil, Shirish, Al Shehri, Dhafer, Barri, Assad
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9657942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36365615
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14214621
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author Gbadamosi, Afeez
Zhou, Xianmin
Murtaza, Mobeen
Kamal, Muhammad Shahzad
Patil, Shirish
Al Shehri, Dhafer
Barri, Assad
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Kamal, Muhammad Shahzad
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description Polymer flooding is used to improve the viscosity of an injectant, thereby decreasing the mobility ratio and improving oil displacement efficiency in the reservoir. Thanks to their environmentally benign nature, natural polymers are receiving prodigious attention for enhanced oil recovery. Herein, the rheology and oil displacement properties of okra mucilage were investigated for its enhanced oil recovery potential at a high temperature and high pressure (HTHP) in carbonate cores. The cellulosic polysaccharide used in the study is composed of okra mucilage extracted from okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) via a hot water extraction process. The morphological property of okra mucilage was characterized with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), while the thermal stability was investigated using a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). The rheological property of the okra mucilage was investigated for seawater salinity and high-temperature conditions using a TA rheometer. Finally, an oil displacement experiment of the okra mucilage was conducted in a high-temperature, high-pressure core flooding equipment. The TGA analysis of the biopolymer reveals that the polymeric solution was stable over a wide range of temperatures. The FTIR results depict that the mucilage is composed of galactose and rhamnose constituents, which are essentially found in polysaccharides. The polymer exhibited pseudoplastic behavior at varying shear rates. The viscosity of okra mucilage was slightly reduced when aged in seawater salinity and at a high temperature. Nonetheless, the cellulosic polysaccharide exemplified sufficiently good viscosity under high-temperature and high-salinity (HTHS) conditions. Finally, the oil recovery results from the carbonate core plug reveal that the okra mucilage recorded a 12.7% incremental oil recovery over waterflooding. The mechanism of its better displacement efficiency is elucidated
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spelling pubmed-96579422022-11-15 Experimental Study on the Application of Cellulosic Biopolymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Cores under Harsh Conditions Gbadamosi, Afeez Zhou, Xianmin Murtaza, Mobeen Kamal, Muhammad Shahzad Patil, Shirish Al Shehri, Dhafer Barri, Assad Polymers (Basel) Article Polymer flooding is used to improve the viscosity of an injectant, thereby decreasing the mobility ratio and improving oil displacement efficiency in the reservoir. Thanks to their environmentally benign nature, natural polymers are receiving prodigious attention for enhanced oil recovery. Herein, the rheology and oil displacement properties of okra mucilage were investigated for its enhanced oil recovery potential at a high temperature and high pressure (HTHP) in carbonate cores. The cellulosic polysaccharide used in the study is composed of okra mucilage extracted from okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) via a hot water extraction process. The morphological property of okra mucilage was characterized with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), while the thermal stability was investigated using a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). The rheological property of the okra mucilage was investigated for seawater salinity and high-temperature conditions using a TA rheometer. Finally, an oil displacement experiment of the okra mucilage was conducted in a high-temperature, high-pressure core flooding equipment. The TGA analysis of the biopolymer reveals that the polymeric solution was stable over a wide range of temperatures. The FTIR results depict that the mucilage is composed of galactose and rhamnose constituents, which are essentially found in polysaccharides. The polymer exhibited pseudoplastic behavior at varying shear rates. The viscosity of okra mucilage was slightly reduced when aged in seawater salinity and at a high temperature. Nonetheless, the cellulosic polysaccharide exemplified sufficiently good viscosity under high-temperature and high-salinity (HTHS) conditions. Finally, the oil recovery results from the carbonate core plug reveal that the okra mucilage recorded a 12.7% incremental oil recovery over waterflooding. The mechanism of its better displacement efficiency is elucidated MDPI 2022-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9657942/ /pubmed/36365615 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14214621 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Al Shehri, Dhafer
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Experimental Study on the Application of Cellulosic Biopolymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Cores under Harsh Conditions
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title_full Experimental Study on the Application of Cellulosic Biopolymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Cores under Harsh Conditions
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title_short Experimental Study on the Application of Cellulosic Biopolymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Cores under Harsh Conditions
title_sort experimental study on the application of cellulosic biopolymer for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate cores under harsh conditions
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9657942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36365615
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14214621
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