Oily sludge (OS) is a kind of solid waste with precious oil resources in the petroleum industry. Because OS poses a severe threat to the environment, the treatment of OS has been widely studied. In this work, OS was used to prepare porous sludge coke a through microwave pyrolysis and one-step ZnCl2 activation technique. The response surface methodology was designed to optimize the parameters of the preparation process of porous sludge coke, and the interaction between the parameters was further analyzed. The experimental result showed that the model could fit the experimental results well. The optimal iodine adsorption value of porous sludge coke, 785.23 mg/g, was obtained by using the response surface methodology when the microwave power was 797 W, the ZnCl2 addition ratio was 0.5, and the pyrolysis time was 25 min. The experimental result showed that the model could fit the experimental results well. The influence of ZnCl2 on the pyrolysis of OS was investigated through TG-FTIR. The results showed that the presence of ZnCl2 could prevent the fracture of C-H bond, reduce the rate of carbon source loss caused by the fracture of long-chain hydrocarbons to produce short-chain hydrocarbons in OS, and enrich the carbon source of sludge coke. On the other hand, the molten ZnCl2 occupied the tiny pores when the oil components in the OS volatilized, which can enrich the pore volume of the sludge coke.
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Significant research focus has recently been directed toward energy-saving and emission-reduction practices, as well as the unique benefits of an integrated working fluid in the oilfield industry. Surfactants cannot be widely used in engineering practice due to cost constraints. At the same time, there is no proper solution to the flowback liquid problem. SY-JS, a multifunctional surfactant, was developed to broaden the application of surfactants in the oilfield industry. It still meets the field operation requirements of a good fracturing fluid thickener with a shear rate of 170 s-1 at 140�C and salinity (NaCl or KCl) of 12-13%. When the fracturing fluid has finished its job and returns to the ground, the molecular structure of the surfactant in the flowback fluid was found to be complete after laboratory evaluation of the fracturing and oil displacement integrated working fluid systems. Surfactants with an intact molecular structure should retain their distinct lipophilic and hydrophilic properties. When groundwater and produced water are compounded and re-injected into the reservoir for oil displacement, 0.2 percent anionic surfactant B1-12 is used to balance the charge and reduce interfacial tension. The rock`s contact angle can be reduced by 56.95 percent, and the recovery rate can be increased by 6%. Based on these findings, the surfactant`s dynamic self-healing mechanism was proposed. Furthermore, the capillary force, interfacial tension, and wettability were combined to propose wettability determines capillary force direction and interfacial tension determines capillary force magnitude. Furthermore, it provides favorable evidence that interfacial tension does not always reach ultralow levels during reservoir exploitation.
{"title":"Multifunctional Surfactant: Integration of Fracturing Fluid Flooding","authors":"Meng Cun, Jincheng Mao, Jizhen Tian, Mingjin Cai, Xiaojiang Yang, Chon Lin, Zigao Huang","doi":"10.37358/rc.22.1.8500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37358/rc.22.1.8500","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Significant research focus has recently been directed toward energy-saving and emission-reduction practices, as well as the unique benefits of an integrated working fluid in the oilfield industry. Surfactants cannot be widely used in engineering practice due to cost constraints. At the same time, there is no proper solution to the flowback liquid problem. SY-JS, a multifunctional surfactant, was developed to broaden the application of surfactants in the oilfield industry. It still meets the field operation requirements of a good fracturing fluid thickener with a shear rate of 170 s-1 at 140�C and salinity (NaCl or KCl) of 12-13%. When the fracturing fluid has finished its job and returns to the ground, the molecular structure of the surfactant in the flowback fluid was found to be complete after laboratory evaluation of the fracturing and oil displacement integrated working fluid systems. Surfactants with an intact molecular structure should retain their distinct lipophilic and hydrophilic properties. When groundwater and produced water are compounded and re-injected into the reservoir for oil displacement, 0.2 percent anionic surfactant B1-12 is used to balance the charge and reduce interfacial tension. The rock`s contact angle can be reduced by 56.95 percent, and the recovery rate can be increased by 6%. Based on these findings, the surfactant`s dynamic self-healing mechanism was proposed. Furthermore, the capillary force, interfacial tension, and wettability were combined to propose wettability determines capillary force direction and interfacial tension determines capillary force magnitude. Furthermore, it provides favorable evidence that interfacial tension does not always reach ultralow levels during reservoir exploitation.\u0000","PeriodicalId":21296,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Chimie","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74874605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Krishnan, M. S. Kavitha, Prakash Veerasamy Radhakrishnan, Murugesan Gurusamy
COVID 19, the virus which originated from a wet market in Wuhan, China. Since its exposure in December, 2019, the virus has spread to almost all the countries in the world, thus turning an epidemic into a pandemic. Although COVID 19 has taken a massive toll on the Human health and global economy, its outbreak has shown positive impacts on the environmental air quality. As the majority of the world is under lock down, the global air pollution has reduced by 40 percent during April 2020. This was identified with the assistance of the data collected from European and American Atmospheric monitoring sites. This article thus summarizes the positive effects of lock down and reduced human mobility, towards the improvement of environmental air quality.
{"title":"Short communication\u0000\u0000The Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Healing Effects on the Environment","authors":"M. Krishnan, M. S. Kavitha, Prakash Veerasamy Radhakrishnan, Murugesan Gurusamy","doi":"10.37358/rc.22.1.8509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37358/rc.22.1.8509","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000COVID 19, the virus which originated from a wet market in Wuhan, China. Since its exposure in December, 2019, the virus has spread to almost all the countries in the world, thus turning an epidemic into a pandemic. Although COVID 19 has taken a massive toll on the Human health and global economy, its outbreak has shown positive impacts on the environmental air quality. As the majority of the world is under lock down, the global air pollution has reduced by 40 percent during April 2020. This was identified with the assistance of the data collected from European and American Atmospheric monitoring sites. This article thus summarizes the positive effects of lock down and reduced human mobility, towards the improvement of environmental air quality.\u0000","PeriodicalId":21296,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Chimie","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84136452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}