Z. H., Lim and H. S., Al Salim and B., Hasiholan and N., Ridzuan (2019) Evaluation of silane-based surfactant nanohybrid as flow improver in a Malaysian light crude oil. In: IOP Conference Series: 1st International Postgraduate Conference on Mechanical Engineering 2018 , 31 October 2018 , UMP Library, Pekan. pp. 1-10., 469 (012001). ISSN 1757-899X
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Abstract
Paraffin deposition in the crude oil production pipeline has been an alarming problem to the flow assurance community. This phenomenon causes a tremendous amount of material loss in the production and substantial resources are expended to resolve these flow assurance problems—which included the chemical treatment. This study examined an agricultural non-ionic silane-based surfactant and its blends (with silica nanoparticles) as a flow improver using Malaysian light crude oil (42.4°API). In particular, this study performed the following experimental measurements: wax appearance temperature, pour point, viscosity, and FTIR spectroscopic analysis. The result showed that the surfactant-nanoparticles blend affected the viscosity (significant reduction by approximately 67 %) within certain temperature range and were able to depress both pour point (to 4°C) and wax appearance temperature (15.6°C). It was also revealed that the most potent blend consisted 400 ppm of silane-based surfactant and 200 ppm of SiO2 nanoparticles. The study also evaluated the underlying mechanisms for the variation of viscosity through FTIR spectroscopic analysis.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
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| Additional Information: | Indexed by Scopus |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Crude oil; Chemical treatments; Crude oil production; Flow assurance; Flow improvers; Material loss |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Mrs. Neng Sury Sulaiman |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2019 01:25 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2019 01:25 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24546 |
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