چكيده به لاتين
Abstract
In this work, separation of water from the water-in-oil emulsion by a non-uniform electric field in a cylindrical cell was studied. Besides, the effect of temperature, demulsifier concentration, water salinity, and separation time was investigated. In this study, sodium dodecyl sulfate and sodium chloride were used as a demulsifier and a salt, respectively. The experiments were designed by response surface methods (RSM) based on central composite design (CCD). The operational parameters such as voltage, temperature, demulsifier concentration, salinity of water, and separation time were optimized. The contours and 3D response surfaces of water separation efficiency were acquired. A quadratic polynomial model, which was statistically highly significant (R2=0.9950, n=32), was provided by RSM to predict the percentage of water separation. A comparison between experimentally and RSM optimized values were done which indicates that optimized amounts of each parameter were in good agreement with each other. Furthermore, the optimum percentage of water separation was obtained at the voltage of 15 kV, the temperature of 60 °C, the demulsifier concentration of 123 ppm, the salinity of water of 12260 ppm, and the separation time of 12.4 min. At these conditions, the supreme separation of water was 98%. The results show that electric field can be used as an appropriate method of W/O emulsion breaking.
Keywords: water separation, W/O emulsion, electric field, response surface methods