Oil Recovery and Microemulsions

Author

Partho Neogi, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Abstract

The process for using surfactants to effect the recovery of crude petroleum oil from underground porous oil fields is far from being realized. However, the concepts and the aims are important and have given rise to a great interest in the surfactants capable of producing ultralow surface tensions in surfactant-brine-oil systems. The purpose here is to illustrate the difficulties in recovering the oil and discuss how, with systems such as microemulsions, some of these difficulties may be overcome. Since the understanding of the behavior in such systems is only recent, the research on their applications to oil recovery is very new. Still some observations have been made which, although lacking a coherent form at present, are of considerable interest.

Recommended Citation

P. Neogi, "Oil Recovery and Microemulsions," Microemulsions: Structure and Dynamics, pp. 197 - 212, Taylor & Francis, Jan 2018.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351074599

Department(s)

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Surface active agents; Oil well flooding; Microemulsion phase

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-135108304-1; 978-131589549-9

Document Type

Book - Chapter

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2018 Taylor & Francis, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2018