Jie Ma,Tao Wang,Wei Hou,Zhenhua Wu,Suling Bao,Dan Wu,Wentao Ma,Yu Zhang
The extraction of crude oil generates a significant volume of stable emulsions that can lead to various adverse effects in industrial extraction processes. Therefore, emulsion demulsification is a crucial step. In this paper, PGDA, a low-temperature W/O demulsifier with double hydrophobic chains, was synthesized from poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate by a simple low-temperature process. The structure of PGDA was analyzed by FTIR and 1 H NMR, and the demulsification performance was evaluated by a bottle-testing method. The results demonstrated that PGDA, at a concentration of 500 mg/L, achieved a demulsification efficiency of 100 % under low-temperature conditions (45 °C) over a 5-hour period. Furthermore, it also showed good demulsifying performance in wide pH range (6–10) and high salinity (100,000 mg/L). In addition, the possible mechanism of demulsification of PGDA was investigated by zeta potential, interfacial tension, and three-phase contact angle, etc. PGDA showed strong competitive adsorption ability with asphaltenes at the interface. PGDA has the ability to navigate rapidly to the oil–water boundary and displace the native surfactants there, thus destabilizing the emulsion and thus promoting the separation of oil and water. PGDA by virtue of the simple synthesis process, low demulsification temperature and high efficiency are of practical application.
The phenolic emulsifiers used in emulsified asphalt of micro-surfacing, which was the most important tools in the road maintenance, were investigated by control technology. Many factors influencing this reaction were studied and three kinds of phenolic emulsifiers were prepared without catalyst in ethanol. The performance was researched that 2-({2-[2-(2-Amino-ethylamino)-ethylamino]-ethyl-amino}-methyl)-4-nonyl-phenol (abbreviated as TETA) could be used in micro-surface. With addition of 0.5 % demulsifier, the mixing time was extended to 120 seconds obviously, and the cohesion torque (60 min) was 2.8 N*m, which satisfied the opening traffic time shorter than 1 h. The wet track abrasion (6 d) was lower than 807 g/m 2 , with interfacial modifier added, but the load wheel was increased with interfacial modifier increasing. When the TETA: demulsifier: interfacial modifier =3:1:3, excellent performance was obtained and the experimental results met the International Slurry Surfacing Association (ISSA) standard. The synthesis process of this emulsifier is simple and the performance used in micro-surface was excellent, so this kind of emulsifier could have a better application future.