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JOURNAL OF DISPERSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 35, 期 2, 页码 231-243出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01932691.2013.784196
关键词
Adsorption; asphaltenes; interfacial rheology
资金
- Research Council of Norway (NFR)
- AkzoNobel
- Baker Petrolite
- BP
- Champion Technologies
- Hamworthy
- Maersk
- Petrobras
- Shell
- Statoil ASA
- Total
A series of oscillating droplet measurements have been performed on asphaltenes at the oil/water interface, in order to correlate the interfacial rheological behavior to their ability to stabilize emulsions. In the concentration sweep, the elastic modulus goes through a maximum around an asphaltene concentration of 0.05-0.10g/l. This behavior was not in good correspondence with emulsion stability, which increased consistently from low to high concentrations. The decrease above 0.10g/l was most likely an effect of diffusion of asphaltenes in the bulk to the interface, which became more significant at higher bulk concentrations. The rheology data as a function of concentration has been fitted to Butler's surface equation of state and the Lucassen-van den Tempel model. A decent correlation was found between emulsion stability and elasticity for both the effect of solvent aromaticity and pH. The elastic modulus displayed a gradual increase when xylene was mixed with heptane as the solvent, as was seen with emulsion stability. This was not caused by a significant increase of the adsorbed amount of asphaltene at the interface, as shown by a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), but a more efficient reorganization of the already adsorbed asphaltenes. The ability asphaltenes displayed in stabilizing emulsions was significantly increased at both low and high pH, according to a previous study. The elastic modulus, on the other hand, only showed a very weak increase at pH 2, but a better correlation with emulsion stability above pH 8. From this it would appear that the dissociation of acid groups in the asphaltene structure at high pH has a bigger impact on the interfacial activity than the protonation of bases at low pH, while their effect on emulsion stability was the same.
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