1st Edition
Nanotechnology in Enhanced Oil Recovery
1. Overview of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
Nupur Srivastava, Veena Sumesh Nair, Santosh Kumar Senapati and Anupama Kumar
2. Fundamentals of Nanotechnology for EOR
Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi, Abhishek Kumar, Anand Raghav Chaubey, Himanshu Kesharwani, Ravi Shankar Kumar and Tushar Sharma
3. Wettability Alteration and Interfacial Tension Reduction in EOR
Ali Khalilnezhad, Lady J. Giraldo, Daniel Lopez, Camilo A. Franco, Farid B. Cortés and Masoud Riazi
4. Factors Affecting Nanofluids by Nanotechnology for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Uma Sankar Behera and Ramanand Singh
5. Nanoparticle‑Assisted Foam for Enhanced Oil Recovery
N.S.V. Dinesh and P. Sivasankar
6. Functional Groups and Functionalized Nanoparticles in EOR Techniques
Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi, Abhishek Kumar and Anand Raghav Chaubey
7. Effects of Silica Nanoparticles Coupled with Low‑Salinity Water on Oil Recovery in a Part of Upper Assam Basin, India
Nayan Medhi, Uttaron Goswami and Pushpa Sharma
8. Case Studies of EOR by Using Nanoparticles
Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi, Abhishek Kumar and Anand Raghav Chaubey
9. Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Aditi Pradeep Dahake and Nirmalya Bachhar
10. CFD of Fluid Flow for EOR Using Nanoparticles
Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi, Abhishek Kumar and Anand Raghav Chaubey
11. Simulation of Nanoparticle‑Assisted Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Coupled Multiphase Fluid Flow and Nanoparticle Transport Model
P. Sivasankar
12. Optimisation of Parameters for Enhanced Oil Recovery and the Role of Nanotechnology
Uma Sankar Behera
13. Nanotechnology in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Challenges and Future Directions
Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi, Abhishek Kumar and Anand Raghav Chaubey
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Biography
Krunal M. Gangawane is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2015. His current area of research is magneto-convection, nanofluidics, enhanced oil recovery, aerogels, etc. He has more than 20 publications in journals of repute. He had a research collaboration with the Firat University (Turkey), Ghent University (Belgium), and King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) on the topic of ‘Convection heat transfer in enclosed bodies for different fluids.’ He is also the recipient of the ISRO‑ESPOND sponsored project in March 2020.
Abhishek Kumar is a Ph.D. student of Chemical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, India. He graduated in Chemical Engineering (B.Tech.) from Monad University in 2014. Later, he received his M.Tech. Degree in Chemical Engineering from C.V. Raman College of Engineering & Technology, Bhubaneshwar, in 2018. His Ph.D. research is based on hybrid ferrofluids for energy and environmental applications; their focus area is enhanced oil recovery using hybrid ferrofluids.
