How does crude oil recovery agent significantly improve crude oil recovery efficiency with its unique active ingredients?
Publish Time: 2025-05-08
In the field of oil extraction and processing, the improvement of crude oil recovery efficiency has always been the focus of the industry. Crude oil recovery agent plays a key role in this field with its unique active ingredients, providing strong support for significantly improving crude oil recovery efficiency.The active ingredients in crude oil recovery agent have excellent interfacial activity. In an oil-water mixed system, crude oil and water often form an emulsified state, making it difficult to effectively separate and recover crude oil. The active ingredients in crude oil recovery agent can quickly penetrate into the oil-water interface and reduce the interfacial tension. This reduction in interfacial tension is like a key that opens the door to oil-water separation. The active ingredients are adsorbed and arranged on the interface, changing the original physical and chemical properties of the interface, making it easier for water droplets to break and aggregate. The crude oil droplets that were originally dispersed in water and difficult to recover gradually aggregate to form larger oil droplets under the action of the active ingredients, making it easier to separate from the water, greatly improving the recovery efficiency of crude oil.These active ingredients also have excellent emulsification breaking ability. In the process of oil extraction and transportation, due to the influence of various factors, crude oil is easy to form a stable emulsion with water. The presence of this emulsion seriously affects the recovery and subsequent treatment of crude oil. The active ingredients in crude oil recovery agent can play a role in the structural characteristics of the emulsion. They can interact with the surfactant molecules in the emulsion and destroy the stability of the emulsion. The active ingredients will competitively adsorb on the oil-water interface, replace the original emulsifier molecules, and reduce the interfacial film strength of the emulsion. As the interfacial film breaks, the oil droplets and water droplets in the emulsion gradually separate, and the crude oil can be released from the emulsion, thereby achieving efficient recovery.The active ingredients of crude oil recovery agent have a wide range of adaptability to different types of crude oil. Whether it is light crude oil or heavy crude oil, there are significant differences in their physical and chemical properties. Light crude oil has good fluidity, but its separation from water is relatively easily disturbed by external factors; heavy crude oil has high viscosity and its emulsification with water is more serious. The active ingredients in crude oil recovery agent can be adjusted and adapted according to the characteristics of different types of crude oil. For light crude oil, the active ingredients can quickly penetrate into the oil-water interface, quickly reduce the interfacial tension, and achieve rapid oil-water separation. As for heavy crude oil, active ingredients can effectively destroy the emulsion structure formed with water, reduce the viscosity of crude oil, and improve the fluidity of crude oil by changing their own adsorption characteristics and action modes, thereby promoting crude oil recovery.The active ingredients of crude oil recovery agent also have good synergistic effects. In practical applications, crude oil recovery agent is usually a composite system composed of multiple active ingredients. These active ingredients cooperate and promote each other, and play a much greater effect than a single ingredient. For example, some active ingredients are mainly responsible for reducing interfacial tension, some focus on destroying the emulsion structure, and some active ingredients can improve the fluidity of crude oil. They work together to form a complete crude oil recovery system, which improves the efficiency of crude oil recovery from multiple aspects.In addition, the active ingredients of crude oil recovery agent also have environmental advantages. While pursuing efficient recovery, environmental issues cannot be ignored. These active ingredients will not cause serious pollution to the environment in the process of playing a recovery role. Most of them have good biodegradability and can be gradually decomposed by microorganisms in the environment after use. They will not remain in the environment for a long time, reducing the potential threat to the ecological environment such as soil and water sources.With its unique active ingredients, crude oil recovery agent performs well in reducing interfacial tension, destroying emulsified structure, adapting to different crude oil types, exerting synergistic effects and protecting the environment. It provides a reliable guarantee for significantly improving crude oil recovery efficiency and promotes the sustainable development of the oil industry.
