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Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Surfactants

q       E. E. Klaus, J. H. Jones, R. Nagarajan, T. Ertekin, J. J. Fan, C. M. Lin, A. J. Yarzumbeck, and G. King. Oxidized Petroleum Fractions as Co–surfactants and as Feedstocks for the Manufacture of Sulfonates for the Tertiary recovery of Oil. Society of Petroleum Engineers. (1980) SPE 9006.

q       E. E. Klaus, J. H. Jones, R. Nagarajan, T. Ertekin, Y. M. Chung, G. Arf, A. J. Yarzumbeck and P. Dudenas. Generation of Ultralow Tensions Over a Wide EACN Range Using Penn State Surfactants.  Society of Petroleum Engineers.  (1980) SPE 9784.

q       Kalpakci, B.; Klaus, E. E.; Duda, J. L.; Nagarajan, R. Flow Characteristics of Surfactant Solutions in Porous Media and Their Role in the Permeability Modification. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal 21, 709-720 (1981). 

q       B. Kalpakci, E. E. Klaus, J. L. Duda and R. Nagarajan. Permeability Modification of Porous Media by Surfactant Solutions. Society of Petroleum Engineers. (1981) SPE 9930.

q       G. R. King, T. Ertekin, C. D. Stahl, J. H. Jones, R. Nagarajan and A. J. Yarzumbeck. Physicichemical Mechanics of the Propagation of the Stabilized Oil Bank Formation During Dilute Surfactant Flooding. Society of Petroleum Engineers (1981). SPE 10371

q       T. G. Arf, G. LaBelle, E. E. Klaus, J. L. Dda, R. Nagarajan, M. B. Biterge and T. Ertekin. Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Penn State Surfactants.  Society of Petroleum Engineers.  (1983) SPE 12308.

q       Klaus, E. E.; Jones, J. H.; Nagarajan, R.; Ertekin, T.; Chung, Y. M.; Arf, T. G.; Yarzumbeck, A. J.; Dudenas, P. Generation of Ultralow Tensions Over a Wide EACN Range UsingPenn State Surfactants. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal 23, 73-80 (1983). 

q       J. L. Duda, T. Ertekin, J. H. Jones, R. Nagarajan, T. G. Arf and G. LaBelle. Synthesis, Solution Properties and Coreflood Performance of Penn State Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery. Proceedings of 3rd European Meeting on Improved Oil Recovery (1985).

q       Arf, T. G.; LaBelle, G.; Klaus, E. E.; Duda, J. L.; Nagarajan, R.; Biterge, M. B.;Ertekin, T. EOR with Penn State Surfactants. SPE Reservoir Engineering, 166-176 (May 1987). 

Related Graduate Student Thesis 

Ø      Yarzumbeck, Arthur J.  (M.S. 82)  "The Design and Evaluation of Low  Surfactant Concentration Slugs for Use in Enhanced Oil Recovery Using  Penn State Surfactants and Mixtures  of Penn State and Commercial Surfactants" (with E. Klaus) 

Ø      Das, Siddharta (M.S. 82)  "Continuous Sulfonation in a Wiped-Film Reactor" (with J.H.Jones

Ø      Charbonnel, D. (M.S. 83) "Production of Surfactants from Vapor Phase Oxidation Products" (with J.H.Jones

Ø      LaBelle, Gary P. (M.S. 85) "Production and Characterization of Surfactants from Vapor Phase Oxidation Products" 

Ø      LaMont, Myoshi (M.S. 00) "Sulfonation of Oxidized Paraffinic Hydrocarbons to Prtoduce Surfactants Using Both Column and Spinning Disk Reactors" (with J.M.Perez)
 

 

 

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