Surfactants for improving the safety of oil plant equipment operation

Abstract

Abstract The phenomenon of oil acidification is explained by the accumulation in its flow of electrostatic charges formed during pumping of water-oil emulsion through lined pipelines. Negative charges are accumulated by the water phase, and positive charges are concentrated in oil. These processes occur both in pipelines lined with polymeric materials and in steel pipelines that have only external insulation. The purpose of the studies was to determine the corrosion rate of the pipe steel in the stored charge sub-commercial water having different values of pH and redox potential, as well as to evaluate the possibility of using surfactants to reduce the redistribution of electrostatic charges.