Contribution to the Study of Biotechnological Control Techniques Applied Against Biocorrosion Oil Installations

The biological activity of oil extracted from green algae has long been known, but evaluation of bimolecular activities contained in this oil on an industrial scale, especially in the oil industry, was the objective of our research project. The first stapes of this study is to extract the essential oil from green algae marine Ulva Lactuca in our region, obtained by extraction/purification method based on hydro distillation and methanol extraction, the work performed at the laboratories of Sonatrach (SH/DTD/AUI/CEM). The second stapes is to evaluate the potential of these algae extracts on microbiologically influenced corrosion. After chemical-physic characterization of two bio naturals products A and B, we test their effectiveness as a bactericide on bacterial corrosion of carbon steel in water contained sulfate reducing bacteria by electrochemical analysis techniques (Open-circuit potential/OCP and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy/EIS).

Improvement of Ti Processing through Colloidal Techniques

The colloid-chemistry control of metallic powders in aqueous slurries is proposed as a way to prepare Ti powders with small particle size for a better pressing behavior through the spray dry process. The chemical-physic behavior of titanium powders with two different particle size distributions dispersed in water has been studied by measuring the zeta potential as a function of pH, and dispersant concentration. The employment of poly-acrylic dispersants allowed the fabrication of stable slurries with solid contents up to 50 vol% that have been sprayed under different conditions to form agglomerates ranging between 50 and 200 µm. Conditions were selected to achieve spherical agglomerates formed by a broad distribution of particle sizes that shown excellent flowability. Agglomerates were pressed in a uniaxial die to measure the compressibility, showing an improvement in pressing behavior with respect to powders with bigger particle size. The sintering behavior is also improved, as values of 96 % of the theoretical density were obtained for compacts sintered in vacuum at 1100 °C for 30 minutes.