Hydraulic oil is essential for machine operation, but water contamination can impair its functionality and lead to mechanical damage. Traditional dehydration methods, such as evaporation, are energy-intensive and may degrade the oil's quality. While filtration has been used to reduce water content in light oils, its application to highly viscous hydraulic oil remains unexplored. This study introduces a novel filter fabricated using ZnO, TiO₂, and stearic acid (STA)-modified mesh via a hydrothermal approach. The filter demonstrated the ability to reduce the water content in 46# hydraulic oil from 25,000 mg/L to below 162 mg/L, irrespective of the presence of surfactants. Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), and performance evaluations suggest that esterification between stearic acid and oxygen groups on the TiO₂ surface is the key mechanism driving the filter's dehydration efficiency. This work represents a significant advancement in the deep dehydration of viscous oils through filtration, offering a low-energy and effective solution for enhancing hydraulic oil performance.
Fan Ye,Liwei Shen,Shi Liu,Huanyu Liu,Xinyuan Zhang,Zejun Zhang,Ying Yang,Xuening Feng,Yuqi Tang,Dong Xiang,Yuanzhu Mi,Xuemin Yan
This work aims to prepare two new amphiphilic and interfacial active gemini ionic liquids to treat crude oil and investigates its demulsification mechanism. Tetraethylene glycol was pretreated with thionyl chloride and used as a linker to connect succinimide or phthalimide , and then reacted with dodecyl benzene sulphonic acid to obtain the corresponding amphiphilic and interfacial active gemini ionic liquid STA or PTA, respectively. 1 H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( 1 HNMR) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to determine the chemical structures. The demulsification tests showed the demulsification efficiency with 150 mg/L of STA or PTA at 60 °C for 30 min was 99.89% and 99.79%, respectively. Furthermore, the demulsification mechanism of STA and PTA were studied and the prominent demulsification ability of STA and PTA were attributed to the better interfacial activity and amphipathy which could destroy the asphaltenes interfacial film. These results showed that STA and PTA had excellent demulsification efficiency, which promised application in petroleum industry .
Dai Shuming,Song Ping,Jiao Ziyue,Cheng Yi,Shang Jingzhao,Leng Xuefei,Wei Zhiyong,Li Yang
A series of bisphenol A-based polyarylates was synthesized by using 2,2-bis (4-hydroxyphenyl) propane (BPA), terephthaloyl dichloride (TPC), and isophthaloyl dichloride (IPC) as raw materials and p-tert-butylphenol as a capping agent through interfacial polymerization to investigate the effect of end group structure on polymer properties. And the polymer films could be obtained by solvent casting method. The successful introduction of p-tert-butylphenol into the backbone adjusted molecular masses and achieved a regulable improvement of the polymer’s thermal properties. The thermal mass loss 5% temperature of the polymers raised above 470 °C, which indicated the thermal properties were broadly in line with that of the commercial product U-100. Besides, the addition of capping agent also improved the light transmission of the polymers and the transmittance reached above 83% at a wavelength of 450 nm. In addition, the thermal degradation mechanism of polyarylate and U-100 was investigated by simultaneous thermal analysis (STA)-IR and Py/GC–MS. It was discovered that PAR decomposed thermally at their end groups and ester groups first, followed by the breakage of their carbon–carbon bonds, which coincided with U-100’s thermal degradation mechanism. The thermal degradation mechanism of bisphenol A-based polyarylates was proposed. Graphical abstract