Drainage via stratification and nanoscopic thickness transitions of aqueous sodium naphthenate foam films

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrystian Ochoa ◽  
Chenxian Xu ◽  
Carina D. V. Martínez Narváez ◽  
William Yang ◽  
Yiran Zhang ◽  
...  

Sodium Naphthenates (NaNs), found in crude oils and oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), can act as surfactants and stabilize undesirable foams and emulsions. Despite the critical impact of soap-like NaNs...

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (14) ◽  
pp. 2341-2346 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Muller ◽  
J. B. Hyne

Sulfane crude oils obtained by acidification of aqueous sodium polysulfide solutions vary little in composition with varying sulfur content of the solution. Evidence presented suggests that the distribution of the sulfanes in such crude oils reflects the equilibrated distribution of the various polysulfide anions in the aqueous solution before acidification. The sulfane distribution in mixtures obtained by reaction of liquid H2S with Br2, SCl2, and S2Cl2 respectively varies over a wide range, depending on the molar ratio of the reactants. Liquid H2S reacts with Br2 or SCl2 to yield essentially the same products. These reactions, however, differ in the nature of their intermediates. By using a large excess of liquid H2S, H2S3 was directly synthesized in over 90% purity. Liquid H2S reacts with S2Cl2 to yield H2S4 in over 90% purity. Gaseous HCl catalyzes the reaction of H2S with the chlorosulfanes and a mechanism is suggested involving HCl as a proton transfer agent in the formation of the reactive intermediates.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Corrie Grosse

From 2011 to 2014 fossil fuel corporations trucked tar sands processing machinery along rural Idaho highways. The machinery was bound for the world's largest deposits of tar or oil sands, a heavy crude oil substance called bitumen, located in the western Canadian province of Alberta. These loads of machinery, what became known as megaloads, encountered much resistance. Throughout Idaho and the surrounding region, a network organized opposition. Neighbors, grassroots organizations, nonprofits, and the Nez Perce and other tribes all collaborated. They held information sessions, protested, waged legal battles, monitored the loads, and blockaded highways. What oil companies hoped would be a cost-effective solution for transporting their megaloads became a David versus Goliath, Coyote versus the Monster—to reference the Nez Perce creation story—struggle to protect rural and indigenous ways of life and sovereignty, and the planet.


CIM Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Goris Cervantes ◽  
S. P. Upadhyay ◽  
H. Askari-Nasab

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 417-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Salehi-Shabestari ◽  
Mehrdad Raisee ◽  
Kayvan Sadeghy

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