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Application of surfactants in the petroleum industry
Author(s) -
Nelson R. C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02634448
Subject(s) - petroleum , oil refinery , petroleum industry , petroleum product , refinery , biochemical engineering , oil field , petroleum engineering , environmental science , natural resource economics , business , waste management , engineering , chemistry , economics , environmental engineering , organic chemistry
Surfactants are used throughout the petroleum industry. Some of those uses are mentioned in this paper. Market growth in surfactants for refinery products probably will be small. More rapid growth is anticipated for surfactants used in the oil field. A large potential market exists for surfactants in enhanced oil recovery, but many technical and economic problems remain to be solved. However, it would seem, as we enter the last decades of the “petroleum age,” that enough of those technical problems will be solved and that the oil we leave behind will become valuable enough to allow some methods of enhanced oil recovery to become economical, commercial processes.