Study of Static Adsorption Test for Investigating Barium Sulphate Inorganic Scaling

Barium sulphate is one of the inorganic scaling that exists in this world. This scaling has
lead to problems to the production system not only on the rate of production but also the
completion components. It is crucial for the industrial men to handle this problem by not
only overcome it but also prevent. The various inhibitors that available in the market may
have contributed to the prevention of the scaling problems; however the need of
environmental friendly chemicals as inhibitor is crucial to ensure the sustainability
development in oil and gas industry. This study is about the evaluation of the commercial
inhibitor and the green inhibitor to prevent the deposition of barium sulphate in the field.
One of the experimental works for testing the inhibitor for scaling is static adsorption
test. This report explains the background study of this project, objectives, literature
review, methodology, results that have been obtained as well as the analysis of the results
that has obtained from this project. The test has been run on 22 samples with different
parameters which includes the concentration of scale inhibitors both conventional and
green inhibitors, the pH of the solutions and the test temperatures. The analysis had
concluded that the green inhibitor has positive promising effects to overcome the barium
sulphate scale problem that occurs in the industry.