2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Interfacial Aspects of Oil/Gas Recovery and Remediation

This session focuses on both Interfacial aspect of Oil/Gas recovery as well as environmental colloids and the interfacial aspects Oil/Gas and waste remediation.

Chair

James Schneider, Carnegie Mellon University

Co-Chairs

Sven H. Behrens, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marina Tsianou, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Presentations

03:15 PM

(590a) Low-Salinity Waterflooding of Carbonate Reservoirs: Bulk and Surface Aqueous Speciation of Calcite
Maxim P. Yutkin, John Y. Lee, Himanshu Mishra, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Clayton Radke

03:30 PM

(590b) Utilizing Solubilized Solvent for Surfactant Based Enhanced Oil Recovery
I. Yucel Akkutlu, Khoa Bui, Andrei Zelenev, James Silas

03:45 PM

(590c) Wettability at the Pore Level: A New Set of Spectacles for Higher Spatial Resolution
Omar Bashir Wani, Chia-Yun Lai, Syed Mohamid Raza Quadri, Matteo Chiesa, Saeed Alhassan, Mariam Ali Almahri

04:00 PM

(590d) Diffusiophoresis of Colloidal Particles in the Limit of Very High Ionic Strength
Dennis C. Prieve, Stephanie M. Malone, Mazen Kanj

04:15 PM

(590e) Surfactant-Oil Interactions on Surfaces
Paschalis Alexandridis, Marina Tsianou, Yi Zhang, Tess Placek

04:30 PM

(590f) Eco-Friendly Sacrificial Amphiphiles As Chemical Herders for Oil Spill Remediaion
Charles Maldarelli, George John, Hao Zhou

04:45 PM

(590g) Interfacial Properties of Skins at the Crude Oil – Water Interface: Effect of Salt Concentration, Temperature and Surface Active Chemicals
Tomás-Eduardo Chávez-Miyauchi, Abbas Firoozabadi

05:00 PM

(590h) Studies of Low Salinity Waterflooding Via Glass Micromodels with Triangular Pore-Throat Architectures
Yafei Liu, John Oakey, Jeff Squier, Erica Block, Vladimir Alvarado

05:15 PM

(590i) Visualization Foam Destruction in Porous Media Micromodels
Sibani Biswal, Yongchao Zeng, Siyang Xiao

05:30 PM

(590j) Modeling Foam Flooding in Varied Dimensions: The Transport of CO2 Soluble Surfactant for Foam Mobility Control
Yongchao Zeng, Aarthi Muthuswamy, Maura Puerto, George J. Hirasaki, Sibani L. Biswal, Rouhi Farajzadeh