Triggered heating of wellbore fluids by carbon nanomaterials
US9970246B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 9, 2013 |
| Grant date | May 15, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 21, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC09K2208/10
- WIPO fieldCivil engineering
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Abstract
A method of triggering heating within a subterranean formation, that includes introducting a wellbore fluid containing a dispersed carbon nanomaterial into a wellbore through the subterranean formation; lowering a microwave or ultraviolet radiation source into the wellbore; and irradiating the wellbore with microwave or ultraviolet radiation, thereby increasing the temperature of the wellbore fluid and/or wellbore is disclosed.
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