In-situ combustion (ISC) is an effective thermal enhanced oil recovery method. However, it is still not widely implemented in oilfields. One of the factors limiting the wide application of ISC is the challenge in its ...

Using copper stearate as catalysts, catalytic in-situ combustion (ISC) of heavy oil was studied by porous medium thermo-effect cell (PMTEC) and combustion tube experiments. Significant acceleration of combustion was observed ...

In this work, bimetallic oxide CoFe2O4 nanoparticles were synthesized by the hydrothermal method. CoFe2O4 nanoparticles were coated by oleic acid (CoFe2O4@oleic acid) to provide the oil-dispersed catalyst for accelerating ...

Oil-dispersed α-Fe2O3 nanocatalysts were prepared by coating α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with oleic acid (OA). Mössbauer spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and field emission scanning electron microscopy were used to characterize ...

The main goal of our previous work was to study the effect of coating the hematite (α-Fe2O3) particles with oleic acid on their catalytic properties for improving heavy oil oxidation (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfu ...