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Decoding the Role of Crude Oil Chemisty in Optimizing Surfactant Flooding
Decoding the Role of Crude Oil Chemistry in Optimizing Surfactant Flooding Traditional recovery methods—primary and secondary waterflooding—typically leave behind 60% to 70% of a reservoir’s original oil in place. This residual oil remains immobilized by capillary forces, trapped in microscopic…
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Coal in the future energy system
Coal in the Future Energy System: Clean Technologies, Hydrogen Production, and Critical Mineral Recovery Coal is a heterogeneous natural material with a three-dimensionally cross-linked network that consists of aromatic and hydroaromatic units connected by short aliphatic and ether linkages (1,…
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Breaking the Film: The role of molecular understanding of crude petroleum in demulsification
Breaking the Film: Molecular Insights into Crude Oil Demulsification Petroleum crude is a mixture of mainly hydrocarbons (saturates and aromatics), along with organic compounds containing heteroatoms – nitrogen, sulphur, oxygen (resin and asphaltenes) – and trace metallic elements (often found…

