Xue-Ying Yang

Demulsification technology for process-level prevention of oily sludge: Performance study of polyether demulsifiers for polymer-containing produced fluids.

The treatment of produced water from enhanced oil recovery is hindered by the formation of hazardous, polymer-containing oily sludge caused by the electrostatic complexation between cationic reverse demulsifiers and residual partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM). To address this, we designed a series of nonionic p...