scholarly journals Fundamental aspects of electric double layer force-distance measurements at liquid-solid interfaces using atomic force microscopy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Black ◽  
Mengyang Zhu ◽  
Pengfei Zhang ◽  
Raymond R. Unocic ◽  
Daqiang Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Force Microscopy ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Electric Double Layer ◽  
Distance Measurements ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Atomic Force

Improved atomic force microscopy resolution using an electric double layer

1997 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 844-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Sokolov ◽  
G. S. Henderson ◽  
F. J. Wicks ◽  
G. A. Ozin
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Force Microscopy ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Electric Double Layer ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Atomic Force

Mapping of electrical double-layer force between tip and sample surfaces in water with pulsed-force-mode atomic force microscopy

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (18) ◽  
pp. 2632-2634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Miyatani ◽  
Miki Horii ◽  
Armin Rosa ◽  
Masamichi Fujihira ◽  
Othmar Marti
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Force Microscopy ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Electrical Double Layer ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Force Mode ◽  
Mode Atomic Force Microscopy

Interpretation of tapping mode atomic force microscopy data using amplitude-phase-distance measurements

1998 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Chen ◽  
M.C. Davies ◽  
C.J. Roberts ◽  
S.J.B. Tendler ◽  
P.M. Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Force Microscopy ◽  
Atomic Force Microscopy Data ◽  
Distance Measurements ◽  
Tapping Mode ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Microscopy Data ◽  
Mode Atomic Force Microscopy

Could Atomic-Force Microscopy Force Mapping Be a Fast Alternative to Core-Plug Tests for Optimizing Injection-Water Salinity for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Sandstone?

SPE Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 0720-0729 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.. Hassenkam ◽  
M. P. Andersson ◽  
E.. Hilner ◽  
J.. Matthiesen ◽  
S.. Dobberschütz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Force Microscopy ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Water Salinity ◽  
Core Material ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Low Salinity ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Force Mapping ◽  
Injection Water

Summary Core tests demonstrated that decreasing the salinity of injection water can increase oil recovery. Optimizing injection-water salinity, however, would offer a clear economic advantage for several reasons. Too-low salinity risks swelling of the clays that would lead to permanent reservoir damage, but evidence of effectiveness with moderate-salinity solutions would make it less difficult to dispose of produced water. The goal is to define boundary conditions so injection-water salinity is high enough to prevent reservoir damage and low enough to induce the low-salinity (LS) effect, while keeping costs and operational requirements at a minimum. Traditional core-plug testing for optimizing conditions has some limitations. Each test requires a fresh sample; core-testing requires sophisticated and expensive equipment; and reliable core-test data require several months because cores must be cleaned, restored, and aged before the tests can begin. It is also difficult to compare data from one core with results from another because no two cores are identical, making it difficult to distinguish between effects resulting from different conditions and effects resulting from different cores. Gathering statistics is limited by the time required for each test and the fact that core material is in short supply. Thus, our aim was to explore the possibility of a less-expensive, faster alternative by probing the fundamental chemical mechanisms behind the LS effect. We developed a method that uses atomic-force microscopy (AFM) to investigate the relationship between the wettability of pore surfaces and water salinity. We functionalize AFM tips with organic molecules and use them to represent tiny oil droplets of nonpolar molecules, and we use sand grains removed from core plugs to represent the pore walls in sandstone. We bring our “oil”-wet tip close to the sand-grain surface and measure the work of adhesion between the tip and the surface. Repeated probing of the surface with the tip produces data that one can convert to maps of adhesion, and we can estimate contact angle. Adhesion work is proportional to wettability and is directly correlated with the salinity of the fluid in contact with the tip and the particle surface. From our measurements, the threshold values for the onset of the LS response are 5,000 to 8,000 ppm, which benchmark remarkably well with observations from core-plug tests. From a mechanistic perspective, the correlation between salinity and adhesion provides evidence for the role of electrical-double-layer (EDL) expansion in the LS response; expansion of the double layer decreases oil wettability. Because AFM experiments can be performed relatively quickly on very little material, they give the possibility of testing salinity response on many samples throughout a reservoir and for gathering statistics. Our approach provides a range of data that one can use to screen conditions to maximize the value of the core-plug testing and to provide extra data that would be too time consuming or too expensive to gather with traditional methods alone. Thus, AFM force mapping is an excellent complement to traditional core-plug testing.

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