Composition and method of making cationic surfactants with two quaternary ammonium head groups

    公开(公告)号:US11795374B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US17490686

    申请日:2021-09-30

    CPC classification number: C09K8/584

    Abstract: A surfactant composition is provided. The composition includes chemical structure represented by Formula (1):




    where R1 represents a hydrocarbon group, a substituted hydrocarbon group, an alkyl ester group, or an alkyl amine having from 4 to 28 carbon atoms, and R2 and R3 represent hydrocarbon groups having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms. Also provided is a composition including a brine comprising a total salinity of at least 20,000 mg/L and the chemical structure shown in Formula (1). Methods of making a composition including the chemical structure represented by Formula (1) are also provided.

    RESTORING CORE SAMPLES
    54.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230212943A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-06

    申请号:US17569141

    申请日:2022-01-05

    CPC classification number: E21B49/001 G01N15/082 G01N15/088 G01N15/0806

    Abstract: The systems and method described in this specification relate to at least partially restoring carbonate core samples. The systems and methods include extracting a carbonate core sample from a subterranean formation. The extracted carbonate core sample is inserted into a core flooding test machine. A first brine permeability of the extracted carbonate core sample is measured. A fluid is pumped through the extracted carbonate core sample to flood the carbonate core sample. The fluid includes at least one of a high-molecular weight polymer solution and a gel particle solution. The systems and methods include at least partially restoring the porosity and the brine permeability of the flooded carbonate core sample by pumping an oxidizing solution through the carbonate core sample and heating the carbonate core sample to a temperature of at least 60° C. after pumping the oxidizing solution through the carbonate core sample.

    IONIC LIQUID ENHANCED SURFACTANT SOLUTION FOR SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION IN FRACTURED CARBONATE RESERVOIRS

    公开(公告)号:US20220290037A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-15

    申请号:US17201315

    申请日:2021-03-15

    Inventor: Ziyuan Qi Ming Han

    Abstract: Provided is a composition that may include a mixture of an ionic liquid and a surfactant in an aqueous composition, where a carbonaceous hydrocarbon-bearing formation has a wettability value and comprises hydrocarbons, where there is an interfacial tension value between the aqueous composition and hydrocarbons present in the carbonaceous hydrocarbon-bearing formation, where the aqueous solution may be configured to modify the wettability value of the carbonaceous hydrocarbon-bearing formation from a first value to a second value that is more water-wet than the first value, and where the presence of the ionic liquid in the aqueous composition may not substantially impact the value for interfacial tension between the hydrocarbons in the carbonaceous hydrocarbon-bearing formation and the aqueous composition. Further provided is a method that may introduce the aqueous composition into a carbonaceous hydrocarbon-bearing formation.

    PREPARATION OF CATIONIC SURFACTANTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220106260A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US17551915

    申请日:2021-12-15

    Abstract: Compositions that include cationic surfactants and methods of synthesizing compositions that include cationic surfactants. The surfactants include a quaternary amine and a saturated or unsaturated alkyl chain with 4 to 28 carbons. The surfactants can be generated by reacting a fatty acid modified with an amino alkyl group and an epihalohydrin in the presence of a base. The cationic surfactants can be generated by reacting a fatty acid modified with an amino alkyl group, an epihalohydrin, and a carboxylic acid. The cationic surfactants can be generated by reacting a carboxylic acid, an epihalohydrin, and a catalyst to afford a halo-substituted alkyl ester, followed by reacting the halo-substituted alky ester with a fatty acid modified with an amino alkyl group.

    SURFACTANT MIXTURES USED DURING CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20210147744A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-20

    申请号:US16683761

    申请日:2019-11-14

    Abstract: Surfactant mixtures include a cationic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, and a nonionic surfactant in a brine solution. The cationic surfactant may include at least one quaternary ammonium, at least one brominated trimethylammonium, or combinations thereof. The anionic surfactant may include at least one organosulfate. The nonionic surfactant may include the nonionic surfactant comprised of a polyoxyethylene fatty acid ester, a phenylated ethoxylate, or combinations thereof. The surfactant mixtures may be incorporated into methods for reducing the interfacial tension between the surfactant mixture and oily fluids during chemical enhanced oil recovery. The methods for reducing the interfacial tension may include introducing the surfactant mixture comprising a cationic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, and a nonionic surfactant in a brine solution to a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, thereby reducing the interfacial tension at a liquid-liquid interface of the surfactant mixture and the fluid.

    Three-Dimensional Fluid Micromodels
    60.
    发明申请
    Three-Dimensional Fluid Micromodels 审中-公开
    三维流体微型模型

    公开(公告)号:US20160318256A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-03

    申请号:US14700408

    申请日:2015-04-30

    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system that includes a three-dimensional fabricator. An image processing module acquires an image of a rock sample having a network of pores, a transformation module transforms the image into a binary matrix and determine a set of statistical moments of the binary matrix, a layer generation module generates a first representation of a first stochastic layer based on the set and emulative of the rock sample and generates a second representation of a second stochastic layer based on the set and emulative of the rock sample. An arrangement module arranges the first representation and the second representation as adjacent layers of a three-dimensional model emulative of the rock sample, and provides the first representation and the second representation to the 3D fabricator for fabrication as a physical three-dimensional fluid micromodel emulative of the rock sample.

    Abstract translation: 本说明书的主题可以包括包括三维制造者的系统。 图像处理模块获取具有孔网络的岩石样本的图像,变换模块将图像变换为二进制矩阵并确定二进制矩阵的一组统计矩阵,层生成模块生成第一 基于岩石样本的设置和仿真的随机层,并且基于岩石样本的集合和仿真生成第二随机层的第二表示。 布置模块将第一表示和第二表示布置为岩石样本的三维模型的相邻层,并且将第一表示和第二表示提供给3D制造者用于制造为物理三维流体微模型模拟 的岩样。

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