[HTML][HTML] Liquid Foam: fundamentals, Rheology, and applications of Foam Displacement in Porous structures

N Moradpour, J Yang, PA Tsai - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2024 - Elsevier
Liquid foams, as colloidal systems comprising a dispersed gas phase within a continuous
liquid medium, exhibit unique structural and rheological properties beneficial for various …

Combined effects of nanoparticles and surfactants upon foam stability

MJ Shojaei, Y Méheust, A Osman, P Grassia… - Chemical engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigate effects of surfactants with different charges (anionic, cationic, and non-ionic)
on foam stability in the presence of charge-stabilized silica (SiO 2) nanoparticles. Toward …

Probing the role of associative polymer on scCO2-Foam strength and rheology enhancement in bulk and porous media for improving oil displacement efficiency

AS Hanamertani, S Ahmed - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Foam mobility control technique has been extensively applied to encounter unfavorable
sweep efficiency during CO 2 injection in heterogeneous reservoirs. Harsh reservoir …

Supercritical CO2 Foam Stabilized by a Viscoelastic Surfactant in Fractured Porous Media: The Effect of Fracture Surface Roughness

Y Yu, S Saraji - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Foam flooding has been used for gas conformance control during enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) in heterogeneous reservoirs. The application of foam flooding in naturally or …

Morphological patterns and interface instability during withdrawal of liquid-particle mixtures

D Li, Z Yang, R Zhang, R Hu, YF Chen - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis The stability of fluid–fluid interface is key to control the displacement efficiency in
multiphase flow. The existence of particles can alter the interfacial dynamics and induce …

Foam generation and stability: role of the surfactant structure and asphaltene aggregates

S Alexander, AR Barron, N Denkov… - Industrial & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Understanding how the surfactant molecular structure affects foam stability is important in
various applications, such as soil remediation, the food industry, enhanced oil recovery, and …

Experimental study of non-Newtonian behavior of foam flow in highly permeable porous media

S Omirbekov, H Davarzani… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Foam-flow behavior in highly permeable porous media is still unclear. Two types of
pregenerated foam using porous columns filled with fine sand and 1 mm glass beads were …

A micro-scale rheometer to study foam texture and flow resistance in planar fractures

N Nazari, AR Kovscek - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We designed and fabricated a new microfluidic device to better enable study of foam
microstructure and rheology in planar fractures. The design phase included stress–strain …

Flow characteristics of foam in fracture networks

Z Xu, A Cao, L Chen, S Cui, G Yu… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Foam is widely used in fractured reservoirs. However, few studies on the flow characteristics
of foam fluid in fractures have been presented, and the flow mechanism of foam in complex …

A numerical investigation into the influence of the surfactant injection technique on the foam flow in heterogeneous porous media

FF de Paula, I Igreja, T Quinelato, G Chapiro - Advances in Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a sequential algorithm to investigate the influence of surfactant injection on
foam-induced mobility reduction in two-phase liquid–gas flows in highly heterogeneous …