Study of Static Adsorption Test for Investigating Barium Sulphate Inorganic Scaling

• Main Author: Ghazali, Hasyimah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2011
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/8602/1/2011%20-%20Study%20of%20Static%20Adsorption%20Test%20for%20Investigating%20Barium%20Sulphate%20Inorganic%20Scaling.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/8602/

Barium sulphate is one of the inorganic scaling that exists in this world. This scaling has lead to problems to the production system not only on the rate of production but also the completion components. It is crucial for the industrial men to handle this problem by not only overcome it but also prevent. The various inhibitors that available in the market may have contributed to the prevention of the scaling problems; however the need of environmental friendly chemicals as inhibitor is crucial to ensure the sustainability development in oil and gas industry. This study is about the evaluation of the commercial inhibitor and the green inhibitor to prevent the deposition of barium sulphate in the field. One of the experimental works for testing the inhibitor for scaling is static adsorption test. This report explains the background study of this project, objectives, literature review, methodology, results that have been obtained as well as the analysis of the results that has obtained from this project. The test has been run on 22 samples with different parameters which includes the concentration of scale inhibitors both conventional and green inhibitors, the pH of the solutions and the test temperatures. The analysis had concluded that the green inhibitor has positive promising effects to overcome the barium sulphate scale problem that occurs in the industry.