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Chemical computational approaches for optimization of effective surfactants in enhanced oil recovery

  • Tandrima Banerjee and Abhijit Samanta
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From the journal Physical Sciences Reviews Volume 8 Issue 9

Abstract

The surfactant flooding becomes an attractive method among several Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes to improve the recovery of residual oil left behind in the reservoir after secondary oil recovery process. The designing of a new effective surfactant is a comparatively complex and often time consuming process as well as cost-effective due to its dependency on the crude oil and reservoir properties. An alternative chemical computational approach is focused in this article to optimize the performance of effective surfactant system for EOR. The molecular dynamics (MD), dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and density functional theory (DFT) simulations are mostly used chemical computational approaches to study the behaviour in multiple phase systems like surfactant/oil/brine. This article highlighted a review on the impact of surfactant head group structure on oil/water interfacial property like interfacial tensions, interface formation energy, interfacial thickness by MD simulation. The effect of entropy in micelle formation has also discussed through MD simulation. The polarity, dipole moment, charge distribution and molecular structure optimization have been illustrated by DFT. A relatively new coarse-grained method, DPD is also emphasized the phase behaviour of surfactant/oil/brine as well as polymer-surfactant complex system.

Keywords: computational modeling; density functional theory; dissipative particle dynamics; interfacial tensions; molecular dynamics simulation; oil–water interface
Corresponding author: Abhijit Samanta, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The Neotia University, Sarisha, West Bengal 743368, India, E-mail:

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  2. Research funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2020-0098
Keywords for this article
computational modeling; density functional theory; dissipative particle dynamics; interfacial tensions; molecular dynamics simulation; oil–water interface

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  2. Reviews
  3. Magnetic characterization of magnetoactive elastomers containing magnetic hard particles using first-order reversal curve analysis
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  5. Biodeinking: an eco-friendly alternative for chemicals based recycled fiber processing
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  7. Cellulose-based polymers
  8. Biodegradable shape-memory polymers and composites
  9. Natural substances in cancer—do they work?
  10. Personalized and targeted therapies
  11. Identification of potential histone deacetylase inhibitory biflavonoids from Garcinia kola (Guttiferae) using in silico protein-ligand interaction
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  17. Trends in microbial degradation and bioremediation of emerging contaminants
  18. Power to the city: Assessing the rooftop solar photovoltaic potential in multiple cities of Ecuador
  19. Phytoremediation as an effective tool to handle emerging contaminants
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  34. Dicarbonyl compounds in the synthesis of heterocycles under green conditions
  35. Green synthesis of triazolo-nucleoside conjugates via azide–alkyne C–N bond formation
  36. Anaerobic digestion fundamentals, challenges, and technological advances
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