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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…

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