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Open AccessStatic adsorption of anionic surfactant onto crushed Berea sandstone
Surfactant adsorption in porous media is one of the major criteria which decide the economic viability of surfactant flooding in chemical enhance oil recovery applications (CEOR). In this study, the static ads...
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Static Adsorption of New CO2 Philic Surfactant onto Berea Sandstone
The adsorption of newly synthesized surfactant on Berea core is reported here. The static adsorption surfactant named UTP surfactant was found 0.91 mg/g. The adsorption of the surfactant followed a typical fou...
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Effect of pH on the static adsorption of foaming surfactants on Malaysian sandstone
Adsorption of surfactants on the reservoir rock is one the most important factors which decide the economic feasibility of recovery process. This study reports the adsorption of two in-house developed CO2-philic ...
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Open AccessCO2 mobility control using CO2 philic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery
CO2 enhanced oil recovery by using newly synthesized CO2 philic surfactant as CO2 mobility control agent is reported. Nonyl phenol ethoxylate sulphonate (NPES) was prepared by the esterification of alcohol with m...
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Organic Acids Assisted Phytoextraction of Heavy Metals: A Review
The applications of organic chelators (citric acid, acetic acid, malic acid, oxalic acid, etc) significantly increased metal uptake by various plant species. These acids are easily soluble in water and increas...
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CO2 foam for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications using low adsorption surfactant structure
The ability of surfactants to interact with CO2 is essential if the CO2 foam is intended to augment a water flooding process as a method to displace oil from a reservoir. Apart from improved sweep efficiency of f...
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Phenol Formaldehyde Resin for Hydrophilic Cellulose Paper
Phenol formaldehyde resin is a thermosetting plastic which has been used for various applications. The important factor of its versatile use is its thermal stability, resistance to chemical attack and water re...
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Surfactants
Surfactants are organic compounds, also termed as ‘surface active agents’. Surfactants contain at least one lyophilic (solvent-loving) and at least one lyophobic (solvent-fearing) group in the molecule. In usu...
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Surfactant in Petroleum Industry
Surfactants are essential chemicals and play a significant role in the upstream petroleum industry. Their interfacial properties and strong emulsification capabilities make them suitable for many operations in...
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Characteristically Insights, Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Equilibrium, and Kinetic Studies of Pb(II) Ion Adsorption on Rice Husks Treated with Nitric Acid
The uses of rice husk are constantly increasing since the last decay. Rice husk is a by-product attained from agricultural activities and has a potential use as a bio-sorbent for the adsorption of heavy metal ...
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Visible light responsive photocatalytic hydrogen evolution using MoS2 incorporated ZnO
In this article, we prepared efficient ZnO@MoS2 composites through hydrothermal and solvothermal method for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. The structural, morphological, surface area and optical properties...
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Challenges and Future of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology has a very vast and broad view based on realism and cross-fertilization which yield new materials in science such as nanostructured materials, nano-composites, and nano-hybrids. The advancement ...
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Construction of visible-light-driven ternary ZnO-MoS2-BiVO4 composites for enhanced photocatalytic activity
In this study, ZnO-MoS2-BiVO4 composite was prepared with pure ZnO and pure MoS2 for the comparison and upswing of photocatalytic activity against rhodamine B (RHB) dye. These materials were characterized by X-ra...
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Nanostructures: A Solution to Quantum Computation and Energy Problems
Nanostructures are one of the fundamental aspects of nanotechnology. Various types of nanostructures play a significant role in quantum informatics and quantum computation. Quantum computation involves the st...
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Nuclear Desalination
Thermal purification is an energy-intensive method that meets the demand from traditional sources with fossil fuels. Existing work seeks to identify solutions to thermal desalination for fossil fuels. Nuclear ...
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Applications of Polymeric Materials in Biomedical Engineering
The class of multipurpose materials having countless properties for various applications in particular based on their relationship between structure and property is known as polyurethanes (PUs). Particular att...
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Biological Methods for Carbon Dioxide Conversion and Utilization
Over recent decades, massive greenhouse gas (GHG) releases in the environment by anthropogenic activities have contributed to global warming. It is also important that additional pollutants are reduced, or eme...
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An Insight into Properties and Characterization of Nanostructures
Nanostructures are one of the pivotal structures in nanotechnology that are widely used in various fields like photonics, quantum computation and energy applications. Nanostructures are structures that have si...
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Application of Membrane in Reaction Engineering for Green Synthesis
Catalytic membrane reactors (CMRs) are predictable to develop a green and maintainable skill in chemical engineering which synergistically conducts separations and reacts. The use of a ceramic membrane is comm...
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Nanostructures Fabricated by Physical Techniques
Nanomaterials have received a lot of interest in recent years, and there has been huge research on different methods for the fabrication of nanomaterials. A few factors are worth noticing on the fabrication of...
