The difficulties associated with transportation and refining of crude oil emulsions and
produced water discharge limitations are among the conspicuous clues that have led the …

The processing of crude oil often requires the extraction of a large amount of water.
Frequently, crude oil is mixed with water to form water-in-crude oil emulsions as the result of …

Mechanical oil recovery (ie, booming and skimming) is the most common tool for oil spill
response. The recovered fluid generated from skimming processes may contain a …

Stable emulsions are frequently encountered in oil production and cause a series of
environmental and operational issues. Chemical demulsification is widely used for the …

Chemical demulsifiers were widely applied for demulsification of crude oil emulsions which
were generally formed with natural stabilizers during the extraction. Based on our previous …

Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets have been experimentally proved to be a highly
efficiency, rapid and universal demulsifier to break up the crude oil-in-water emulsion and/or …

Seeking highly efficient, rapid, universal, and low-cost demulsification materials to break up
the crude/heavy oil-in-water emulsion and emulsified oily wastewater at ambient conditions …

Oily wastewater has become a serious environmental problem and attracted global concern.
Traditional methods are limited by their low separation efficiency, complicated instrument …

Abstract Treatment of the oilfield wastewater from the chemical and petroleum industries,
often present in the form of emulsion, is one of the major environmental concern in current …

This study reports a novel polyether-polyquaternium (PPA) demulsifier for demulsifying the
O/W emulsion that originating from alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding produced …