<br/>Nanocelluloses serve as a potential new water additive for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. The material is biodegradable, non-toxic and an environmental-friendly resource; attractive properties for EOR. In EOR, the goal is to extract more oil from reservoirs after conventional methods have been used, i.e. after water flooding. One such method is to add chemicals to the injection water in order to increase the sweep efficiency of the reservoir or reduce the interfacial tension between oil and water. The oil is trapped in porous structures, and if particles such as nanocellulose shall be used for EOR, they must be small enough to flow through the porous media without causing permeability impairment. With nanocellulose in nanometer scale, and pores in micrometer scale, this should be an easy match. However, theory and practice do not always coincide. With laboratory studies as basis, challenges in using nanocellulose for EOR are discussed.<br/>

Nanocelluloses for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)

2019 Spring National Meeting

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