Synergistic foam stabilization and transport improvement in simulated fractures with polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles: Microscale observation using laser etched glass micromodels

Hosseini, Hooman; Tsau, Jyun Syung; Wasserbauer, John; Aryana, Saman A.; Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121004

Title: Synergistic foam stabilization and transport improvement in simulated fractures with polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles: Microscale observation using laser etched glass micromodels

Journal Article · Fri May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Fuel

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121004· OSTI ID:1865185

Hosseini, Hooman ^[1]; Tsau, Jyun Syung ^[1];

^[2];

^[3]; Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza ^[1]

Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
microGlass LLC, Castro Valley, CA (United States)
Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)

Inaccessibility to direct pore scale observation in hydrocarbon recovery of tight shale formations poses a great challenge to water-energy nexus initiatives and necessitates the use of high throughput technologies to emulate environmentally friendly processes. Herein, we employ a precise glass micromodel fabrication and visualization method to isolate the supercritical CO₂ bubbles surrounded by CO₂-water lamella prepared in saline produced water stabilized with molecular complexation of zwitterionic surfactants (ZS) and polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles (PECNP). The Selective Laser Enhanced Etching (SLE) technique was selected for micromodel simulation of high-pressure flow. Two representative designs, (1) fracture/micro-crack network 28 and (2) fracture/matrix were etched on fused silica glass with a laser printing machine and scCO₂ foam was injected to study the foamability, propagation, stability, and fluid loss properties. The highly monodispersed and uniformly distributed array of scCO₂ bubbles were detected in flow of scCO₂ foam in highly saline brine containing ionic complexes of positively charged PECNPs and ZS, whereas foam flow with the lamella containing ZS in fractures offered a noticeably large and polydisperse array of scCO₂ bubbles. scCO₂ bubble motion and deformation were traced, and local description of foam flow was visually examined. The confined array of scCO₂ bubbles stabilized by ZS in microcracks was affected by bubble growth and coalescence, whereas the super-populated array of monodispersed scC_O2 bubbles with lamella containing complexes of PECNP and ZS were able to fill the channels with stable configurations within the timeframe of comparative stability measurements. The ability of complex fluid to prevent the formation damage was evaluated through fluid loss visualization in micromodels. Probing scCO₂ foam transport in homogenous porous media revealed smaller volume leak-off for scCO₂ foam containing PECNP-ZS ionic complexes.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States); Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Mechanistic Control of Water-Hydrocarbon-Rock Interactions in Unconventional and Tight Oil Formations (CMC-UF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019165; OIA-1632892

OSTI ID:: 1865185

Journal Information:: Fuel, Vol. 301; ISSN 0016-2361

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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