A. Abdurrahman , S.M. Shuwa , F.N. Dabai , T. Oyegoke , A.I. Igbafe , O.D. Orodu , B.Y. Jibril
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Elucidating recovery and mechanism of deep eutectic solvents for heavy crude oil via experimental and computational analysis
The quest for green solvents for enhanced oil recovery resulted in the use of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs), which can work effectively in a range of reservoir conditions. The most often reported DESs evaluated for enhanced oil recovery to date are those based on choline chloride. Nevertheless, it has been found that these DESs often come with challenges like inability to sufficiently reduce the interfacial tension of heavy crude oil reservoir. Therefore, in this study, tetrabutylammonium bromide, (TBAB) with polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG 400), TBAB/dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and TBAB/N, N-dimethyl formamid (DMF) were explored to synthesize DES-1, DES-2 and DES-3 respectively. The DESs were used to investigate the reduction of interfacial tension (IFT) between the DES/water mixture and heavy crude oil, as well as formation damage, imbibition and core flooding results. From the IFT reduction findings, DES-1, DES-2 and DES-3 reduced the IFT by 67.4 %, 85.7 % and 83.3 % by respectively. From the core flooding result, a total displacement efficiency of 76.92 %, 98.39 % and 89.79 % were obtained using DES-1, DES-2 and DES-3 respectively. Afterward, quantum mechanics calculations using PM3, semi-empirical were performed in the Spartan molecular modeling package to augment the experimental analysis and also gain more insight on the mechanisms underlying the interactions between the DES and oil, brine and oil, DES and the rock matrix, as well as between the oil and the rock matrix. The findings revealed that for DES-1, wettability alteration and low mobility ratio are the most vital mechanism for its oil recovery. DES-2 essentially employed IFT reduction combined with mobility control to recover oil. While emulsification, sweep efficiency and wettability alteration contributed significantly to DES-3 for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). In contrast, choline chloride-based DES increased IFT from 6.4 to 11.4 mN/m and up to 21.9 mN/m in heavy crude oils. This attests to the improved efficacy of TBAB-based DESs in lowering IFT and water cut in heavy oil reservoirs, which increases oil recovery.
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