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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.56, 342-349, December, 2017
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2017.07.030  Export Citation
Effect of specific functional groups on oil adhesion from mica substrate: Implications for low salinity effect
Jiazhong Wu1, Fanghui Liu2, 3, Hui Yang2, †, Shijing Xu1, Quan Xie4, †, Minghui Zhang2, Ting Chen2, Guangxin Hu2, and Jinben Wang2
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development of PetroChina, Beijing 100083, PR China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
  • 4Department of Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, 6151 Kensington, Western Australia, Australia
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Low salinity effect has been in the center of attention as a cost-effective and environmentally friendly technique. Wettability alteration of the oil/brine/mica system appears to be the identified mechanism(s) to trigger the low salinity effect. While the effect of water chemistry and minerology on the wettability of the system has been extensively investigated, few studies have investigated the effect of specific function groups from crude oil on the system wettability, limiting the understanding of how specific functional group contributes to the wettability. We thus experimentally measured the adhesion forces between mica surfaces and functional groups (e.g., C6H5-, CH3-, COOH-, and NH2-) in the presence of different aqueous ionic solutions using chemical force microscopy (CFM). Moreover, to understand the contribution of the structural force, the traditional Derjaguin.Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) theory was extended (denoted as EDLVO) to fit the force profiles using a Gauss model. Our results showed that the adhesion force between mica and functional groups in a decreasing order was -NH2> -COOH > -CH3> .C6H5. We also found that while DLVO forces strongly affected the tip-surface contact due to the interactions among oil/brine/mica interfaces, the structural forces also played an important role in a distance of 1-20 nm due to the presence of H-bonds between COOH-terminated or NH2-terminated tip and mica surface. We therefore conclude that the structural force largely contributes to the adhesion force due to the hydrophilicity or polarity of functional groups, and nucleophilic property (such as phenyl group). Our results suggest that the polarity of the crude oil needs to be considered to screen a candidate reservoir for low salinity water flooding projects.
Keywords:Low salinity effect;Wettability;Adhesion force;Specific functional group;EDLVO theory
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