Tuesday, April 3, 2012: 11:00 AM
Grand Ballroom H (Hilton of the Americas)
The continuing increase in worldwide energy demand has motivated recent efforts of designing nanomaterials with signaling, sensing, and detection capabilities for oil exploration.
Contrast-enhancing agents help detect specific targets at threshold levels and through nanoscale properties, enhance response and resolution of existing x-ray, electromagnetic and seismic-based detection methods. We recently synthesized carbon-based nanoparticles with hydrocarbon sensing capability, in which a hydrophobic compound is released when transporting through oil-containing rock (Berlin et al., Energy Environ. Sci., 4:2, 505-509, 2011). I will discuss the design and synthesis of this material, and present evidence for their colloidal stability and transport in briny fluids.
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See more of this Group/Topical: 1st International Conference on Upstream Engineering and Flow Assurance
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