Publications by authors named "Zhiqiu Zhang"
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- Alkali-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding is an advanced method for enhancing oil recovery, leveraging the combined effects of alkali, surfactant, and polymer to improve flooding efficiency.
- The study involved injecting various chemical slugs into a fracture model to analyze how different combinations of these components affect oil displacement, revealing that ASP improves recovery through mechanisms like interfacial reactions and viscosity enhancement.
- Results indicate that ASP increases oil recovery by 38.0% compared to traditional water flooding, showcasing its potential as a cost-effective and technically viable flooding technology with promising applications.
Successful exploitation of carbonate reservoirs relies on the acid-fracturing process, while the thickeners used in this process play a key role. It is a common engineering problem that thickeners usually fail to function when used in high-temperature environments. Until now, no research has ventured into the field of synthesizing thickeners which can be effectively used at ultra-high temperatures up to 180 °C.
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