Lee, L. and Salimon, J. and Yarmo, M.A. and Misran, Misni (2010) Viscoelastic properties of anionic brominated surfactants. Sains Malaysiana, 39 (5). pp. 753-760. ISSN 0126-6039,
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The scarcity of land based oil reserves has necessitated the exploration of off shore oil. This exploration is often carried out in pristine waters and the use of green chemicals is essential to reduce environmental degradation. In the recovery of oil and gas from rocky formations, well bore fluids such as packer fluids, fracturing fluids, conformance and permeability control fluids are extensively employed. Potassium oleate as viscoelastic surfactants gives a low partition coefficient when in contact with hydrocarbon. Bromination of the oleate chain has been shown in this work to increase the partition coefficient and still maintaining its viscoelasticity. The partition coefficient increased to ca 8 compared to negligible for potassium oleate. A gel was formed when a 20 solution of potasssium 9-bromo stearate was mixed with 8 KCl. Contacting this gel with hydrocarbon resulted in a loss of viscosity due to the improved solubility of the brominated compound in hydrocarbon. This facilitates the removal of the surfactants after its use as a fracturing fluid. The viscoelastic properties were demonstrated using a Bohlin rheometer. The graph of viscosity vs shear rate shows at first a shear rate independence up to a shear rate of 0.2 s-1 and then falling with shear rate typical of a viscoelastic fluid. The zero shear viscosity η0 varied from 18 Pa s to 220 Pa s whilst the shear viscosity at 100 s-1 ranged from 0.16 Pa s to 15 Pa s for surfactant concentration from 5 to 20.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Additional Information: | Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Building, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Brominated oleate Green chemistry Oil and gas Surfactants Viscoelastic |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry |
| Depositing User: | miss munirah saadom |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2013 01:51 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2019 08:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/6877 |
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