Using a three-phase batch reactor with coated steel panels, this investigation studies the influence of carbon dioxide (CO2), present in gas phase at conditions high pressure and temperature (HPHT), on degradation an amine-cured epoxy novolac (EN) coating. The combined effect gas, hydrocarbon, seawater compromises coating leads to underfilm corrosion. Consequently, understanding role each phase...

Gases contained within near-surface marine sediments can be derived from multiple sources: shallow microbial activity, thermal cracking of organic matter and inorganic materials, or magmatic-mantle degassing. Each origin will display a distinctive hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon composition as well as compound-specific isotope signature and thus the interpretation of origin should be relatively...

Highly organized mesoporous silica monoliths were reproducibly prepared by nanocasting mixtures of fluorinated nonionic surfactants and micelles of two hydrocarbon block copolymers. It is the special feature of this fluorocarbon/hydrocarbon template mixture that they form not mixed micelles but individual micelles instead. By careful analysis of the pore architectures by gas sorption measuremen...

Selection of mobile phases markedly affect separation efficiency of eluted probes in gas chromatography (GC), the mobile phases have a pronounced effect on the retention times and efficiency of natural gas separation. In solid chromatography, carrier gases which are adsorbed to any extent occupy more active adsorption sites, reducing the net heat of adsorption of the eluted zone. The efficiency...

Weiyuan gas field, located in the Sichuan basin of south China, is a large marine gas field with the oldest reservoir (the Sinian sequences) in south China. The hydrocarbon origin of the gas field has long been debated by petroleum geologists. Recently, it was recognized that a paleo-oil pool maybe the significant contributor to the gas field. Consequently, when the paleo-oil pool had been crac...

solubility of hydrocarbons in water is important due to ecological concerns and new restrictions on the existence of organic pollutants in water streams. also, the creation of a thermodynamic model has required an advanced study of the phase equilibrium between water (as a basis for the widest spread muds and amines) and gas hydrocarbon phases in wide temperature and pressure ranges. therefore,...