Nitrogen adsorption on nanoporous zeolites studied by Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation

The Role of Some Cationic Surfactants Based on Thiazine as Corrosion Inhibitors in Petroleum Applications: Experimental and Theoretical Approach

Two cationic surfactants based on thiazine, dodecyl thiazin bromide (DTB) and hexyl thiazin bromide (HTB), were synthesized, characterized, and investigated as corrosion inhibitors for API X-65 type steel in oil wells' formation water under an H₂S environment. Various spectroscopic techniques such as FTIR and ¹H NMR were used to confirm the DTB and HTB chemical structures. The corrosion inhibition efficiency of the selected compounds was investigated using both potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements. The innovation of the current study is the existence of a long chain in the inhibitor molecule, which leads to an increase in the performance of the surfactant as a corrosion inhibitor, due to the increase in the surface area per molecule. It was found that these surfactants act as mixed-type inhibitors, leading to suppression of both the cathodic and the anodic processes by its adsorption on the electrode surface according to the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Carbon steel's inhibitory mechanism was studied using an analogous circuit. The scanning electron microscope technique was used as a suitable analysis tool to show the nature of the layer designed on carbon steel. Quantum chemical calculations and Monte Carlo simulation techniques were used to support the obtained experimental results. Finally, a suitable mechanism for the inhibition process was proposed and discussed.

Molecular dynamic simulation studies of adsorption and diffusion behaviors of methanol and ethanol through ZSM-5 zeolite

Due to the importance of synthesis gas's entire conversion to methanol, the separation of methanol from unconverted synthesis gas is an industrial challenge. In this work, the influence of temperature, guest molecules concentrations (methanol and ethanol), and acid site density (Si/Al) of zeolites on the diffusion of methanol and ethanol, pure and binary mixture (80% methanol and 20% ethanol) in silicalite-1 and HZSM-5 (Si/Al = 47 and 23) were studied by using of the COMPASS force-field molecular dynamics method. Also, the adsorption of pure methanol and ethanol and binary mixture through these zeolites has been studied by using the Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) method. The calculated adsorption rate and isosteric heat of adsorption for ethanol are lower and higher than methanol, respectively. The results of the binary mixture show that HZSM-5 (Si/Al = 23) has the lowest adsorption selectivity and most diffusion selectivity. The calculated diffusion coefficients of methanol and ethanol guest molecules decreased with rising guest molecule concentration and Si/Al-ratios. The effect of both agents was investigated by analysis of mean square displacement (MSD) and RDF diagram.

Adsorption characteristics and inhibition effect of two Schiff base compounds on corrosion of mild steel in 0.5 M HCl solution: experimental, DFT studies, and Monte Carlo simulation

In this work, we report the synthesis of two Schiff bases of substituted gallic acid derivatives via amidation reaction and their characterization using ¹H-NMR spectroscopy to study their inhibition performance on the aggressive attack of HCl on mild steel (MS). The inhibitive performance was examined using chemical (weight loss) and electrochemical (Tafel and EIS) test methods. The results indicate that these derivatives significantly suppress the dissolution rate of mild steel via adsorption phenomena, which correlates to the Langmuir adsorption model. Tafel data display the mixed-type properties of these compounds and EIS results show that increasing Schiff base concentration not only leads to delaying the charge transfer (R_ct) of iron from 26.4 ohm cm⁻² to 227.7 ohm cm⁻² but also decreases the capacitance of the adsorbed double layer (C_dl) from 8.58 (F cm⁻²) × 10⁻⁵ to 2.55 (F cm⁻²) × 10⁻⁵. The inhibition efficiency percentage reaches the peak (90%) at optimum concentration of 250 ppm. The Monte Carlo simulations confirm the adsorption ability of the as-prepared compounds on the Fe (1 1 0) crystal. The SEM/EDX results revealed the presence of a protective film on the mild steel sample.

Structures of the synthesized Schiff bases inhibitor.