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Abstract

The issue of pipeline scaling and oil-water separation caused by treating produced water in Alkali/Surfactant/Polymer (ASP) flooding greatly limits the wide use of ASP flooding technology. Therefore, this study of the demulsification-flocculation mechanism of oil-water emulsion in ASP flooding produced water is of great importance for ASP produced water treatment and its application. In this paper, the demulsification-flocculation mechanism of produced water is studied by simulating the changes in oil-water interfacial tension, Zeta potential and the size of oil droplets of produced water with an added demulsifier or flocculent by laboratory experiments. The results show that the demulsifier molecules can be adsorbed onto the oil droplets and replace the surfactant absorbed on the surface of oil droplets, reducing interfacial tension and weakening interfacial film strength, resulting in decreased stability of the oil droplets. The demulsifier can also neutralize the negative charge on the surface of oil droplets and reduce the electrostatic repulsion between them which will be beneficial for the accumulation of oil droplets. The flocculent after demulsification of oil droplets by charge neutralization, adsorption bridging, and sweeping all functions together. Thus, the oil droplets form aggregates and the synthetic action by the demulsifier and the flocculent causes the oil drop film to break up and oil droplet coalescence occurs to separate oil water.

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Title
Study on Demulsification-Flocculation Mechanism of Oil-Water Emulsion in Produced Water from Alkali/Surfactant/Polymer Flooding
Author
Huang, Bin 1 ; Li, Xiaohui 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhang, Wei 2 ; Fu, Cheng 3 ; Wang, Ying 4 ; Fu, Siqiang 5 

 The Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery of Educational Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China 
 Shandong Key Laboratory of Oil-Gas Storage and Transportation Safety, College of Pipeline and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China 
 The Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery of Educational Ministry, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China; Post-Doctoral Research Station of Daqing Oilfield, Daqing 163458, China 
 Aramco Asia, Beijing 100102, China 
 No. 1 Oil Production Plant in Daqing Oilfield, Daqing 163001, China 
First page
395
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734360
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2557228234
Copyright
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.