Evaluation on the Effect of Inhibitor Ratio to the Wax Deposition of Local Malaysian Crude

Norida, Ridzuan and Zulkefli, Yaacob and Fatmawati, Adam (2014) Evaluation on the Effect of Inhibitor Ratio to the Wax Deposition of Local Malaysian Crude. In: International Conference On Global Sustainability And Chemical Engineering (ICGSCE 2014) , 20-22 August 2014 , Kuala Lumpur. pp. 1-6..

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Abstract

It is important to understand the fundamental nature of petroleum wax formation since this problem is still a challenging issue in the crude oils industry. The application of a wax inhibitor was introduced in this study to reduce the wax. Poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) and diethanolmines (DEA) with different ratios were used to evaluate their performance as an inhibitor using cold finger equipment. A total of 10ml of the inhibitor with different ratio was injected into the crude sample where the temperature of cold finger and water bath were setting at 10ºC and 50ºC respectively. The study found that Percent Inhibition Efficiency (PIE) is increased when the amount of EVA in DEA is increased. The use of EVA alone has successfully show 23.1% of wax to the PIE compare to other ratios. The GC-FID analysis found that the C28H (octacosane) wax solid deposit reduced almost 90% if pure EVA was used. This study also concludes that by introducing different 58 ratio between two chemical inhibitors does not give significant effect to the wax solid inhibition formation. Therefore, it highly recommended to used pure EVA as single wax inhibitor to control wax solid deposition.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Cold finger; Wax deposition; Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA); Diethanolamine(DEA)
Subjects:	T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Faculty/Division:	Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Depositing User:	Noorul Farina Arifin
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2014 08:01
Last Modified:	25 Jan 2018 06:34
URI:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6631
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