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dc.contributor.authorSoleimani, Hassan
dc.contributor.authorYahya, N.
dc.contributor.authorBaig, M.
dc.contributor.authorKhodapanah, L.
dc.contributor.authorSabet, M.
dc.contributor.authorBhat, A. H.
dc.contributor.authorOechsner, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorWang, M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-18T02:24:39Z
dc.date.available2022-05-18T02:24:39Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1842-3582en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/99892
dc.description.abstractNew synthesized nano materials have immensely attracted the researchers for further development of nano enhanced oil recovery method particularly in nano flooding. Interfacial tension measurement tests are the effective ways to identify proper nanomaterials for enhanced oil recovery by nano/surfactant flooding. In this work zinc oxide nano-crystallites were synthesized using self-combustion technique for application in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The synthesized sample were used to the measure interfacial tension between their aqueous phase and crude oil phase to investigate the efficiency of the nanoparticles in reduction of interfacial tension. Therefore this research is intended to investigate the effect of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles towards surface/interfacial tension. Practically ZnO nanoparticles were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Scanning Electron microscope (FESEM) in order to understand its structure, size, shape and morphology. The characterization results reveal the hexagonal structure of ZnO. Pendant drop experiment was carried out to further understand the effect of nanoparticles on Interfacial Tension (IFT). Since the Zinc Oxide solution was very “cloudy” the drop phase could not be identified and the interfacial tension was not calculated by the software. Due to this reason, the Surface Tension (ST) was calculated with different concentration. The results show high value of ST 35.57 mN/m at 0.3 wt % of ZnO nanoparticles.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Materials Physicsen_US
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.chalcogen.ro/index.php/journals/digest-journal-of-nanomaterials-and-biostructures/8-djnb/362-volume-11-number-1-january-march-2016en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom263en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto269en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue1en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalDigest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructuresen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume11en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNanomaterialsen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode100708en_US
dc.titleCatalytic effect of zinc oxide nanoparticles on oil-water interfacial tensionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articlesen_US
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2016. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_US
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gro.griffith.authorOechsner, Andreas


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