Evaluation of Nanoemulsion to Improve the Fracturing Fluid Flowback

DOI

10.2991/ic3me-15.2015.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

nanoemulsion; flowback additives; contact angle; flowback recovery

Abstract

Nanoemulsion (NE) has been widely added into fracturing fluid as flowback additive to enhance fracturing fluid recovery. An environmental friendly nanoemulsion has been formulated. The particle size distribution of the nanoemulsion has been determined. The surface tension and contact angle of the nanoemulsion and commercial flowback additives have also been studied. The new nanoemulsion has lower surface tension and higher contact angle than commercial flowback additives. Two flowback recovery test apparatuses have been constructed, and fluid flowback recovery and gas-fluid flowback recovery experiments have been conducted. The new nanoemulsion gives higher fluid and gas-fluid recovery than that of conventional flowback additives.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Baoshan Guan
AU  - Wei Jiang
AU  - Ping Liu
AU  - Li Liang
AU  - Jiang Yang
PY  - 2015/08
DA  - 2015/08
TI  - Evaluation of Nanoemulsion to Improve the Fracturing Fluid Flowback
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Material, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 171
EP  - 178
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ic3me-15.2015.33
DO  - 10.2991/ic3me-15.2015.33
ID  - Guan2015/08
ER  -