Title: Surfactants: Fundamentals and Applications in the Petroleum Industry Author: Laurier L. Schramm ISBN: 0521640679 / 9780521640671 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 630 Publisher: Cambridge Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
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Contents
This book provides an introduction to the nature, occurrence, physical properties, propagation, and uses of surfactants in the petroleum industry. It is aimed principally at scientists and engineers who may encounter or use surfactants, whether in process design, petroleum production, or research and development. The primary focus is on applications of the principles of colloid and interface science to surfactant applications in the petroleum industry, and includes attention to practical processes and problems. Applications of surfactants in the petroleum industry are of great practical importance and are also quite diverse, since surfactants may be applied to advantage throughout the petroleum production process: in reservoirs, in oil and gas wells, in surface processing operations, and in environmental, health and safety applications. In each case appropriate knowledge and practices determine the economic and technical successes of the industrial process concerned. The book includes a comprehensive glossary, indexed and fully cross-referenced.
• Comprehensive coverage of surfactant applications in the petroleum industry
• Fourth in a successful series of titles (of which first three were published by the ACS before they sold their booklist to Oxford University Press)
• Introduction to, and illustrations of, the engineering applications of surfactants in real-world petroleum industry processes
Part I. Surfactant Fundamentals
Chapter 1. Surfactants and their solutions: basic principles
Chapter 2. Characterization of demulsifiers
Chapter 3. Emulsions and foams in the petroleum industry Part II. Surfactants in Porous Media
Chapter 4. Surfactant adsorption in porous media
Chapter 5. Surfactant induced wettability alteration in porous media
Chapter 6. Surfactant flooding in enhanced oil recovery
Chapter 7. Scale-up evaluations and simulations of mobility control foams for improved oil recovery Part III. Oilwell, Near-Well, and Surface Operations
Chapter 8. The use of surfactants in lightweight drilling fluids
Chapter 10. Surfactants in Athabasca oil slurry conditioning, flotation recovery, and tailings processes Part IV. Environmental, Health, and Safety Applications
Chapter 11. Surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation
Chapter 12. Use of surfactants for environmental applications
Chapter 13. Toxicity and persistence of surfactants used in the petroleum industry Part V. Glossary and Indexes
Chapter 14. Glossary of surfactant terminology
Author and affiliation indexes.