Background Ionic liquids have received a lot of interest in recent years from scientists and
academics due to their distinctive qualities, including low vapor pressure, low toxicity, high …

The processing of crude oil often requires the extraction of a large amount of water.
Frequently, crude oil is mixed with water to form water-in-crude oil emulsions as the result of …

The economic development, utilization of petroleum and industrial production have
produced a large quantity of emulsified oily wastewater, which will pose a serious threat to …

Stable emulsions are frequently encountered in oil production and cause a series of
environmental and operational issues. Chemical demulsification is widely used for the …

The formation of stable emulsions is a fundamental problem in oil industry that can result in
a sequence of environmental and operational problems. Chemical demulsification is …

Since the establishment of the first global refinery in 1856, crude oil has remained one of the
most lucrative natural resources worldwide. However, during the extraction process from …

The quest for effective demulsification materials is growing rapidly in the recent times.
Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are an attractive alternative of commercial demulsifiers …

In this work, the application of ionic liquids in separation of water from crude oil as a water
demulsifier was reported. Imidazolium ionic liquids substituted with long alkyl chains (n= 10 …

In recent years, ionic liquids have received increasing interests as an effective demulsifier
due to their characteristics of non-flammability, thermal stability, recyclability, and low vapor …

The oil and gas industry is often challenged with serious problems like high cost of oil field
chemicals and environmental toxicity issues of commonly used synthetic oil field chemicals …