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Development and application of a new theoretical model for additive impacts on mineral crystallization Zhaoyi (Joey) Dai, Fangfu Zhang, Narayan Bhandari, Guannan Deng, Amy T. Kan, Fei Yan, Gedeng Ruan, Zhang Zhang, Ya Liu, Alex Yi-Tsung Lu, and Mason Tomson Cryst. Growth Des., Just Accepted Manuscript • Publication Date (Web): 02 Jun 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 3, 2017

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Crystal Growth & Design

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Development and application of a new theoretical model for additive impacts on

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mineral crystallization

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Zhaoyi (Joey) Dai1,2*, Fangfu Zhang1, Narayan Bhandari1, Guannan Deng1,2, Amy T.

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Kan1,2, Fei Yan1, Gedeng Ruan1, Zhang Zhang1,2, Ya Liu1,2, Alex Yi-Tsung Lu1,2, Mason

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Tomson1,2

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Houston, TX 77005, US

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street,

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Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water

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* Corresponding Author contact information:

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E-mail address: [email protected]

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Tel: (713)348-2149

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ACS Paragon Plus Environment


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Abstract

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Additives play an important role in crystallization controls in both natural and industrial

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processes. Due to the lack of theoretical understanding of how additives work, the use and

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design of additives in various disciplines are mostly conducted empirically. This study has

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developed a new theoretical model to predict the additive impacts on crystallization based

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on the classical nucleation theory and regular solution theory. The new model assumes that

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additives can impact the nucleus partial molar volume and the apparent saturation status of

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the crystallization minerals. These two impacts were parameterized to be proportional to

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additive concentrations and vary with inhibitors. As a practical example, this new model

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has been used to predict barite induction times without inhibitors from 4 to 250 oC and in

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the presence of eight different scale inhibitors from 4 to 90 oC. The predicted induction

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times showed close agreement with the experimental data published previously or

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produced in this study. Such agreement indicates that this new theoretical model can be

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widely adopted in various disciplines to evaluate mineral formation kinetics, elucidate

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mechanisms of additive impacts, predict minimum effective dosage (MED) of additives,

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and guide the design of new additives, to mention a few.

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Keywords

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crystallization; scale inhibition; membrane fouling; phosphonate; carboxylate; sulfonate

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Introduction

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Mineral crystallization is an important reaction that occurs in various industrial processes,

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including water treatment

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exchange processes 8, and oil and gas productions 9. In many cases, mineral crystallization

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can lead to detrimental impacts. For example, mineral scale formation can cause excessive

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energy consumption, flow rate reduction, and economic losses in water treatment processes

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via forming in the heat exchange units 2 or at the membrane surface 10-12; barite, one of the

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most common scale minerals in the oil and gas industry, can cause enormous economic

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loss through pipeline blockage, formation damage, or equipment malfunction 9. To avoid

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such losses, various types of chemical additives have been added as scale inhibitors to

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delay or prevent mineral scale formation. For example, scale inhibitor addition has been

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used as one of the most economical and efficient scale control methods 13, 14. However, due

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to the lack of theoretical understanding of how additives impact the crystallization process,

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additive usages for such crystallization process controls are mainly conducted in an

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empirical manner

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basis for better crystallization process controls using various additives in a quantitative way.

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, drug purification

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, CO2 geological sequestration 7, heat

. Therefore, a mechanistic model is desired to provide theoretical

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In the past decades, many mechanisms have been proposed to explain the inhibition

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mechanisms of additives in the crystallization process. Most of these mechanisms can be

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categorized into two groups: surface adsorption and structure interference. By adsorbing

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onto and deactivating the kink sites, the additives (or scale inhibitors) are believed to slow

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down crystal growth through the Burton-Cabrera-Frank (BCF) spiral growth mechanism



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. This surface adsorption mechanism has been confirmed by experimental observations

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. For example, Liu and Nancollas (1975) studied the barite seeded growth and

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dissolution in the presence of N, N, N', N triethylenediaminetetra (methylene phosphonic

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acid) (TENTMP), sodium tetrarnetaphosphate, and sodium tripolyphosphate at 25 oC. They

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suggested that the growth rate delay and the initial surge of additive (i.e., inhibitor)

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concentration in dissolution are due to the adsorption of inhibitor onto seed surface or

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incorporation into the crystals 21. In addition to surface adsorption, structure interference

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due to the formation of inhibitor-ion complex or clusters can also slow down the

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crystallization process

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nucleation clusters can influence the local structure of nucleated particles 23. The structure

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distortion or inhibitor incorporation can lead to the increase of solubility and the decrease

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of supersaturation, which finally slow down the crystallization rate

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most of these studies failed to establish mechanistic models to describe these mechanisms

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and quantify the impacts of additives. As a result, these mechanisms can hardly be used to

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guide the usage of additives in practical applications.

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. It is suggested that the complexation of inhibitors onto pre-

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. Unfortunately,

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The induction time is defined as the time elapsed between the establishment of

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supersaturation and the formation of detectable crystalline phases. This definition implies

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the practical significance of induction time that it can correspond to the time when mineral

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scale starts to cause problem. In practical applications, the induction time ( ti , s) has been

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widely used to represent the kinetics of mineral crystallization 27-32. Some semi-empirical

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models have been developed to predict the mineral induction times with or without the

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presence of additives (e.g., scale inhibitors) 31, 33-36. These models assume that the addition


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of additives raise the activation energy of crystallization and increase the induction time

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(ti). The change of the logarithm of induction time is assumed to be linearly proportional

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to the concentration of inhibitors (i.e., log10  ti   log10 ti0  b  Cinhibitor ). The induction

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times without inhibitors (i.e., ti0 ) and the inhibition efficiencies (i.e., b) can be fitted from

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semi-empirical equations based on the induction times measured under different conditions

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for different minerals and inhibitors. These models show good prediction capability and

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have been widely adopted in oil and gas industry for mineral scale control. Unfortunately,

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these models need more sufficient theoretical basis so that they can be extrapolated to other

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types of scale inhibitors under other conditions, or be used to elucidate the mechanisms of

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the inhibition process.

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This study intends to develop a mechanistic model to quantify the additive impacts in the

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crystallization process. Based on the classical nucleation theory (CNT) and regular solution

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theory, this model quantified the additive impacts through the changes of molar volume

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and Gibbs free energy. Using barite as an example, this model can accurately predict its

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induction time without inhibitors from 4 to 250 oC and with the presence of eight different

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scale inhibitors from 4 to 90 oC, which were measured in this study or previous research.

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This study successfully bridged the experimental observations with theoretical

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assumptions and showed a new way to illustrate the mechanisms of various additives to

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control crystallization process.

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Model development

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Using barite crystallization as an example, the crystallization process can be expressed as:

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  BaSO4 Ba 2  SO42  

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(1)

The Gibbs free energy change of this reaction ( Gr0 ) is: 0 0 0 Gr0  Gbarite  GBa , 2  G SO 2

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(2)

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where ∆G0 stands for the Gibbs free energy (J mol-1) of different species. The saturation

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index (SI) of barium sulfate is defined as follows: 2

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SI

barite

 log10

2

 Ba 2 [ Ba ] SO 2 [ SO4 ] 4

K sp , BaSO

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(3)

4

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where [·] and γ stand for the concentration (mol/kg H2O) and activity coefficients of

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different species, respectively; Ksp is the mineral solubility product and equals to

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exp  Gr0 / RT   mol/kg H2O  . Theoretically, SI should be zero when solids are at

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equilibrium with the solution. If SI is larger than 0, the solution is over-saturated and has a

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potential to precipitate, and vice versa. The SI values were calculated using software

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ScaleSoftPitzer developed by Rice University 9, 37-41.

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The induction time ( ti ) includes the relaxation stage (tr) for the achievement of quasi

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steady-state distribution of molecular clusters, the nucleation stage(tn) for critical nuclei

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formation in aqueous phase, and the very early crystal growth stage when the nuclei grow

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from critical radius to a detectable size (tg) 31, 42-45. In low viscosity solutions, the relaxation

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stage (tr) is believed to be much shorter than the nucleation stage (tn), and thus we have

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ti  tr  tn  t g  tn  t g

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The classical nucleation theory (CNT) is developed to represent the competition between

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the decrease of bulk Gibbs free energy (i.e., related to SI) and the increase of surface energy

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(i.e., related to σ and Vm) when nuclei form in the nucleation stage 30, 42. After nucleation

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stage, nuclei continue to grow via various pathways

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growth happens in the crystal growth stage, Söhnel and Mullin (1979, 1988) derived the

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induction time without the presence of scale inhibitors based on CNT as follows 45, 46:

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1/4 5/3  3   Vm ti     8/3 4  2   Av D ceq

1/4

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. By assuming the polynuclei

  10SI /2   Vm2 3 Av  'Vm4/3 2 Av2/3  , (4) exp      SI /2 2  3 2 4( RT )2 (2.303  SI )   4( RT ) (2.303  SI )   (10  1)  1/4

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where R is the ideal gas constant (8.31 J K-1 mol-1); T is temperature in Kelvin (K); Vm is

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the molar volume of scale mineral (e.g., 5.21×10-5 m3/mol for barite); σ is the superficial

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interfacial energy between mineral and solution (J m-2) changing with temperature (i.e.,

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   298 K  aT T  298.15  , in which  298K is the superficial interfacial energy at 25 oC

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and aT is the coefficient for temperature dependence); Av is the Avogadro constant (6.02

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× 1023 mol-1); D is the effective diffusion coefficient (m2 s-1); ceq is the equilibrium

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concentration of the lattice ions (mol/kg H2O); β and β’ are the shape factors (i.e., for

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spheres, β = 16π/3 , β’ = π 30); SI is the saturation index defined in Equation (3).

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Using barium sulfate as an example, the effect of added inhibitors, Inh, on the nucleation

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process is modeled by assuming that a trace amount of inhibitor (r 2 and r < 0.001. The new model developed in this study is

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the first theoretical model that can explain such observations.

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. In Figure 6, it is also observed

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log10(ti/s)

(a) BHPMP 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

This study_SI = 2.00, T = 296 K SI = 2.00_pred This study_SI = 2.54, T = 296 K SI = 2.54_pred This study_SI = 2.72, T = 296 K SI = 2.72_pred

0.00

1.00 2.00 3.00 Inhibitor Concentration (ppm)

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(b) DTPMP 7 6 5

log10(ti/s)

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This study_SI = 2.00, T = 298 K

4 SI = 2.00, T = 298 K_pred

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This study_SI = 2.02, T = 343 K

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SI = 2.02, T = 343 K_pred

0 0.00

0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 Inhibitor Concentration (ppm)

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log10(ti/s)

(c) HDTMP 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

This study_SI = 2.00, T = 298 K SI = 2.00, T = 298 K_pred This study_SI = 2.02, T = 343 K SI = 2.02, T = 343 K_pred

0.00


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(d) NTMP

log10(ti/s)

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7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

This study_SI = 2.00, T = 298 K SI = 2.00, T = 298 K_pred This study_SI = 2.00, T = 340 K SI = 2.00, T = 340 K_pred This study_SI = 2.17, T = 298 K SI = 2.17, T = 298 K_pred

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Figure 5. Barite induction time under various conditions in the presence of non-polymeric

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phosphonate inhibitors: (a) BHPMP, (b) DTPMP, (c) HDTMP, and (d) NTMP. The

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experimental measurements are represented as symbols, and the predictions by this study

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are represented as lines.

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(a) PPCA 5 This study_SI = 2.02, T = 340 K

log10(ti/s)

4 SI = 2.02, T = 340 K_pred

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Xiao_SI = 2.81, T = 298 K

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SI = 2.81, T = 298 K_pred

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Xiao_SI = 2.93, T = 298 K

0.00


SI = 2.93, T = 298 K_pred

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(b) PVS 5 4

log10(ti/s)

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Yan_SI = 2.0, T = 343 K SI = 2.0, T = 343 K_pred

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Yan_SI = 2.1, T = 298 K

SI = 2.1, T = 298 K_pred

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1 0.00


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(c) CMI 5

log10(ti/s)

4 Yan_SI = 2.6, T = 277 K

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SI = 2.6, T = 277 K_pred Yan_SI = 2.1, T = 298 K

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SI = 2.1, T = 298 K_pred

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0 0

1 2 3 Inhibitor Concentration (ppm)

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(d) PMAC 4

This study_SI = 2.74, T = 277 K SI = 2.74, T = 277 K_pred

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log10(ti/s)

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This study_SI =2.08, T = 298 K SI =2.08, T = 298 K_pred

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0 0

2 4 Inhibitor Concentration (ppm)

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Figure 6. Barite induction time under various conditions in the presence of polymeric

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inhibitors: (a) PPCA, (b) PVS, (c) CMI, and (d) PMAC. The experimental measurements

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are represented as symbols, and the predictions by this study are represented as lines.

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Equation (4) was derived based on CNT and reflects the competition between the decrease

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of Gibbs free energy and the increase of surface energy due to crystallization. Our new

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model uses only two parameters (i.e., aG and aV) to represent the relative impacts of the

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additives on these two counterparts, respectively. If the additives (e.g., inhibitors) lead to

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a more significant increase in the molar volume than the decrease of Gibbs free energy, the

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crystal (e.g., barite) nucleus is harder to form and thus the induction time will be longer. It

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means that the aG and aV values represent the relative impacts on the two parameters that

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control the competition between surface energy and bulk Gibbs free energy. Putting in

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another way, it is the aG and aV values acting together, instead of individually, that can

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reflect the effects of inhibitors due to different inhibition mechanisms, including adsorption,

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structure interference, and kink site deactivation, to mention a few.

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The individual parameters for each scale inhibitor per functional unit are listed in Table 3.

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The relative impacts of each inhibitor per functional unit on Gibbs free energy (i.e., aG in

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Equation (9)) and on molar volume (i.e., aV in Equation (13)) are listed in column 3 and

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4, respectively. Using NTMP as an example, when the molar ratio r is 0.001, the relative

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change of Gibbs free energy is 0.001 × 3 × 7.7 = 2.3% and the relative change of molar

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volume is 0.001 × 3 × 57.2 = 11.4%. The four non-polymeric phosphonate inhibitors (listed

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in Row 2 to 5 in Table 3) have similar aG , aV , and 1  aG  / 1  aV  ratios in terms of one

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phosphonate functional group monomer, except for NTMP which has smaller aV and large

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1  aG  / 1  aV  ratio. This result also indicates that the phosphonate groups are the main

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functional groups and have similar crystallization inhibition efficiency in different


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inhibitors. This observation agreed with Flory (1953) that the reactivity of the functional

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groups in large molecules can behave independently from each other

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polymeric scale inhibitor containing phosphonate functional groups is used for barite scale

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inhibition, its monomer impacts on the Gibbs free energy and molar volume of barite

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crystallization can be estimated to be the average aG and aV values of the four

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phosphonate inhibitors, respectively (i.e. aG = 7.32, aV = 82.93). For example, HEDP (i.e.,

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1-Hydroxy Ethylidene-1,1-Diphosphonic Acid) is another widely used non-polymeric

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phosphonate scale inhibitor

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molecular weight of 206. The impacts of HEDP on Gibbs free energy and molar volume

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can be estimated as aG  2aG = 14.65 and aV  2aV = 165.87, respectively, for the whole

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HEDP molecule. Figure 7 shows the barite induction times in the presence of HEDP

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predicted by our new model using the estimated aG and aV values for HEDP. The close

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match with the measured induction times confirms the proposed similarities among the

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non-polymeric phosphonate inhibitors. It also indicates that the inhibition kinetics of a new

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non-polymeric phosphonate scale inhibitor can be estimated based on its number of

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phosphonate groups it contains.

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. If another non-

. HEDP contains two phosphonate groups and has a

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Table 3. Column 2 shows the molecular weight (MW) containing one functional group.

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Columns 3 to 4 show the fitted two individual parameters of each inhibitor correpsonding

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to the MW per functional unit for barite. Column 5 shows the ratio of 1  aG  / 1  aV  . MW per functional

aG

Inhibitor

aV

unit


1  aG  / 1  aV 


BHPMP

137

7.8

107.6

0.081

DTPMP

115

6.5

79.5

0.093

HDTMP

123

7.4

87.4

0.095

NTMP

100

7.7

57.2

0.149

PPCA

74.5

10.4

37.6

0.294

CMI

274

68.8

279.2

0.249

PMAC

58

15.3

88.3

0.183

PVS

107

51.2

172.0

0.302

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HEDP Predicted log10(ti/s)

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8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

This study_SI = 2.02, T = 340 K SI = 2.02, T = 340 K_pred This study_SI = 2.00, T = 298 K SI = 2.00, T = 298 K_pred

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Figure 7. Barite induction time under various conditions in the presence of HEDP. The

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experimental measurements are represented as symbols, and the predictions by this study

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are represented as lines.

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It also deserves notice that the 1  aG  / 1  aV  ratios of all phosphonate inhibitors are

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smaller than those of the polymeric inhibitors containing sulfonate or carboxylate

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functional groups, which indicates that non-polymeric phosphonate scale inhibitors are

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generally more effective than the polymeric inhibitors under most of these conditions. Such

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comparison agreed with the experimental observations mentioned above. The large

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deviations among the aG and aV values of the four polymeric scale inhibitors may be due

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to the different functional groups they have. It will be valuable to further analyze such

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differences in future research.

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Conclusions

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This study has developed a novel theoretical model to study the kinetics and mechanism

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of mineral crystallization with or without the presence of additives. This model adopts the

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CNT to calculate the induction time without the presence of additives with three

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undetermined parameters (i.e.,  , aT , D ). The additives were assumed to exert impacts on

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the molar volume and Gibbs free energy of the nucleus formation. These two impacts were

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quantified to be proportional to the concentration of additives using the regular solution

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theory with two parameters (i.e., aG , aV ). Their values represent the relative impacts on

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the competition between the increase of surface energy and the decrease of Gibbs free

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energy during the crystallization process.

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This model was used to predict the induction times of barite with or without the presence

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of eight different scale inhibitors from 4 to 90 oC. The close match between the measured



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and predicted induction times show the correctness of this model. The four non-polymeric

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phosphonate inhibitors show similar aG , aV , and 1  aG  / 1  aV  values, which

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indicates that these phosphonate inhibitors have similar inhibition efficiency per

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phosphonate functional group monomer. Among the eight scale inhibitors, the non-

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polymeric phosphonate inhibitors have smaller

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polymeric inhibitors. It suggests that the phosphonate inhibitors have more efficient scale

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inhibition efficiencies, which agrees with experimental observations.

1  aG  / 1  aV 

ratios than other

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In the future, more minerals and additives can be included into this model. It will also be

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of great value to correlate the two parameters, aG and aV , with additive properties, for

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example, molecular weight, gyration radius, functional group positions. With the guidance

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of such a unified theoretical model, the usage and design of various additives for mineral

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crystallization control in various disciplines will be more efficient.

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Associated Content

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Supporting Information. The details of the experimental conditions and the derivations of

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the linear relationship between the logarithm of induction time and inhibitor concentrations

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at constant temperature and saturation index are included in the supporting information.

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Acknowledgements

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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support by a consortium of companies

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including Baker Hughes, BWA, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Dow, EOG, ExxonMobil,


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For Table of Contents Use Only Development and application of a new theoretical model for additive impacts on mineral crystallization

Zhaoyi (Joey) Dai1,2*, Fangfu Zhang1, Narayan Bhandari1, Guannan Deng1,2, Amy T. Kan1,2, Fei Yan1, Gedeng Ruan1, Zhang Zhang1,2, Ya Liu1,2, Alex Yi-Tsung Lu1,2, Mason Tomson1,2

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street,

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Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water

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* Corresponding Author contact information: E-mail address: [email protected] Tel: (713)348-2149

Synopsis: Additives can impact the nucleus partial molar volume and the apparent saturation status of the crystallization minerals. These two impacts were parameterized to be proportional to additive concentrations and vary with inhibitors.



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