Emerging Nanotechnologies and Solutions in Enhanced Oil Recovery Advanced Concepts supporting the Energy Transition Enhanced Oil Recovery Series

Emerging Nanotechnologies and Solutions in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Advanced Concepts Supporting the Energy Transition supplies today?s engineer and researcher with the latest methods and processes to learn and apply while lowering environmental impact. Supported by a diverse cast of global contributors, the reference dives into the role nanotechnology is playing in enhanced oil recovery, including nano-assisted chemical, thermal, water and gas-based methods, smart chemicals in nanoencapsulation, and nanoparticle-stabilized foam for mobility control. Other advances discussed include ionic liquids application, microbial biotechnology, and electrical EOR techniques. Case studies, visuals, and mathematical modeling at pore-scale, core-scale, and field-scale evaluation are all covered. Rounding out with chapters addressing water, air, and soil pollution challenges as well as CO₂ storage in EOR activity, this book delivers the knowledge engineers need today to improve on critical assets while keeping a sustainability mindset.

1. Introduction to Nanotechnology for Enhancing Oil Recovery
2. Nano-Assisted Chemical EOR Methods
3. Nano-Assisted Thermal EOR Methods
4. Other Nano-Assisted Water and Gas-Based EOR Methods
5. Nanoencapsulation Technology for Enhancing Oil Recovery
6. Introduction to foam flooding techniques
7. Nanoparticle-stabilized foam
8. Flow behavior of nanoparticle-armored bubbles
9. Nanoparticle-stabilized foam for mobility control
10. EOR of low-permeability cores
11. Ionic Liquids Application for Enhancing Oil Recovery
12. Microbial Biotechnology for Enhancing Oil Recovery
13. Electrical EOR techniques
14. Formation damage potential in novel enhanced oil recovery technologies
15. Mathematical Modelling and simulations studies
16. Application of molecular dynamic simulation for enhancing oil recovery
17. Environmental issues during enhanced oil recovery
18. Role of enhanced oil recovery technologies on energy transition

Masoud Riazi is currently Dean and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Shiraz University in Iran. He is also Director of EOR/IOR Research at Shiraz University. Previously, he was a Senior Consultant at Petroc Technologies in Edinburgh running high pressure CO2 injection, trapping, and storage experiments. He earned a PhD in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University, a MSc in chemical engineering from Tehran University, and a BSc in petroleum engineering from Petroleum University of Technology along with over 20 patents.
Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh is currently an assistant professor at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. He is also an adjunct professor at Jilin University and Northeast Petroleum University in China. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary. He earned a PhD in petroleum engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, an MSc in hydrocarbon reservoir engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and a BSc in petroleum engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery processes, heavy oil systems, nanotechnology, and applications of intelligent models in the petroleum industry. Abdolhossein has been awarded as a distinguished graduate MSc student, was an honor PhD student, and a recipient of the National Elites Foundation Scholarship. He works as an associate professor in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. He has published over 150 journal articles, three books, several conference proceedings, and earned one patent in 2016.
Zhaomin Li is currently a professor and vice president of China University of Petroleum (East China). His research interests are in oil production engineering theory and technology, application of foam fluids in oil and gas development, and heavy oil. He is also an executive director of the Shandong Petroleum Institute in foam fluids and vice chairman of the Sh