Interactions between Surfactants and Cellulose Nanofibrils for Enhanced Oil Recovery

Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) represents a series of potential solutions for extracting more oil from resources with already known locations and magnitudes. Unfortunately, many of the chemical additives in use today are not environmentally friendly. In the study a “greener” alternative for increasing viscosity of the injection water is investigated, namely cellulose nanofibrils (CNF). The nanofibrils are combined in systems with anionic...