Could petroleum work as lubricant oil on slippery lubricated surfaces to prevent inorganic scaling?

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Filipe Signorelli, Celso A Bertran

Abstract

The use of nucleation and growth inhibitors at offshore oil industry to avoid inorganic scaling could be replaced by both physical and chemical modifications at surfaces to prevent the scaling. In that way, the slippery lubricated surfaces have been showing promising results as scaling preventers, notably when the lubricants are perfluorinated oils, which are immiscible with almost every kind of compound. Nonetheless, the requirement of periodically refilling these lubricant oils is disadvantageous, especially when dealing with deep sea facilities. Using petroleum as the lubricant oil could skip the refilling step, since it is always present in the extraction medium. So, this work tests the effectiveness of petroleum as the lubricant oil in functionalized textured polyaniline applied as anti-scaling material in conditions that simulate the medium of offshore operation. As result, petroleum as lubricant oil presents effective anti-scaling capacity and works perfectly in slippery lubricated surfaces.

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Jul 17, 2021·Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids·Yixuan WangShutao Wang

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