Emulsion Stabilization, Breaking, and Inversion Depends upon Formulation: Advantage or Inconvenience in Flow Assurance
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Emulsion type and stability are directly linked to the physicochemical formulation, which controls the interfacial interactions of the surfactant with the oil and water phases. During petroleum production processes, emulsions have to be stabilized, broken, or inverted and the formulation has to be adjusted to attain the required property. This is, in particular, the way to reach a proper rheology that insures the flow. If the formulation is not controlled, unwelcome changes, such as phase inversion, can take place and plug the porous medium or the pipeline through which a multiphase system is transported. Three specific cases still under development are discussed as critically depending upon formulation: displacement in porous medium during surfactant flooding for enhanced oil recovery, heavy crude oil emulsified transport in the pipeline, and control of the gas hydrate slurry in deep subsea transportation.
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The optimum condition for demulsification is when the HLD is 0.
“The optimum condition for demulsification is when the HLD is 0.”
From Demulsifier Selection Guideline for Destabilizing Water-in-Oil Emulsion for both non-EOR and EOR Application (2023) · cites this paper as Salager and Forgiarinni, 2012
The usual technique to dehydrate crude oil is to break the W/O emulsion by adding a hydrophilic demulsifier surfactant that migrates at the drop interface and combines with the natural surfactants to attain an exact HLD = 0 mixture formulation.
“The usual technique to dehydrate the crude oil is to break the W/O emulsion by adding a hydrophilic demulsifier surfactant that migrates at the drop interface and combines with the natural surfactants to attain an exact HLD = 0 mixture formulation (Salager and Forgiarinni, 2012).”
From Demulsifier Selection Guideline for Destabilizing Water-in-Oil Emulsion for both non-EOR and EOR Application (2023) · cites this paper as Salager and Forgiarinni, 2012
A lower RSN (less water soluble) demulsifier works better than a demulsifier with high RSN in resolving the emulsion for a crude oil with high asphaltene content.
“Both references support the result that a lower RSN (less water soluble) demulsifier works better than a demulsifier with high RSN in resolving the emulsion for a crude oil with high asphaltene content.”
From Demulsifier Selection Guideline for Destabilizing Water-in-Oil Emulsion for both non-EOR and EOR Application (2023) · cites this paper as Salager and Forgiarinni, 2012
To promote good destabilization at the interfacial phase, the demulsifier must competitively adsorb at the interface, remove, and break up the asphaltenic aggregates and reduce the interfacial tension between the hydrocarbon aqueous phases and hence facilitate droplet coalescence kinetics.
“To promote good destabilization at the interfacial phase, the demulsifier must competitively adsorb at the interface, remove, and break up the asphaltenic aggregates and reduce the interfacial tension between the hydrocarbon aqueous phases”
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- Authors
- Salager, J.-L., & Forgiarini, A. M.
- Affiliations
- Universidad de Los Andes (VE)
- Corresponding author
- Salager, Jean-Louis
- Forgiarini, Ana María
- Venue
- Energy & Fuels
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2012-04-11
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 4027-4033
- ISSN
- 0887-0624 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5029
- OpenAlex
- W2316393129
- Cited by
- 57
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Energy & Fuels (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Analytical Chemistry › Petroleum Processing and Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Ocean Engineering › Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
- Keywords
- emulsion stabilization, demulsification, phase inversion, surfactant formulation, interfacial interactions, flow assurance, rheology, surfactant flooding, enhanced oil recovery, pipeline transport, multiphase flow
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