Nanoparticle-based solution pulls last drops of oil from well water
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Oil and water tend to separate, but they mix well enough to form stable oil-in-water emulsions in produced water from oil reservoirs to become a problem. Rice University scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based solution that reliably removes more than 99 percent of the emulsified oil that remains after other processing is done.