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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2013
Applicant:
University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB;
Inventors:
Nasser Ghorbani, Bergen, NO;
Niall Fleming, Haus, NO;
Mark Wilson, Leeds, GB;
Nikil Kapur, Ilkley, GB;
Anne Neville, Leeds, GB;
Assignee:
University of Leeds, Leeds, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/16 (2006.01); E21B 43/22 (2006.01); C09K 8/528 (2006.01); F24F 11/00 (2006.01); C09K 8/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/16 (2013.01); C09K 8/52 (2013.01); C09K 8/528 (2013.01); F24F 11/001 (2013.01); F24F 11/0012 (2013.01); F24F 11/0076 (2013.01); F24F 11/0079 (2013.01); C09K 2208/10 (2013.01); F24F 2011/0041 (2013.01); F24F 2011/0056 (2013.01); F24F 2011/0061 (2013.01); F24F 2011/0073 (2013.01); Y02B 30/746 (2013.01); Y02P 20/124 (2015.11);
Abstract
A method of inhibiting scale in a geological formation comprising depositing a binder on the formation surface, delivering a nano-material to the surface where it chemically interacts with the binder, emplacing a scale inhibitor on the formation that is absorbed by the nano-material, where a sustained release of the scale inhibitor into the geological formation results.