Synthesis, Characterization and Demulsification Performance of Polymethylamyldiallylammonium Chloride. Issue 3 (4th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peng, Wenhui; Zhang, Xiujuan; Jia, Xu; Xu, Xiao; Wang, Yongji; Zhang, Yuejun
• Is Part Of: Journal of macromolecular science. Volume 61:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 309
• Page End: 323
• Publication Date: 2022-03-04
• Subjects: demulsification performance -- homopolymerization -- intrinsic viscosity -- methylamyldiallylammonium chloride -- response surface optimization; Polymerization -- Periodicals; Polymers -- Periodicals; 530.413
• DOI: 10.1080/00222348.2021.2005886
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-2348

Abstract

Abstract: The lipophilic modification of dimethyldiallylammonium chloride monomer (DMDAAC) with resulting excellent lipophilic performance can provide an effective way to improve the application performance of the resulting monomers and copolymers. In this paper, polymethylamyldiallylammonium chloride (PMADAAC) homopolymer was prepared by using methylamyldiallylammonium chloride (MADAAC) as the monomeric unit, 2, 2'-Azobis(2-methylpropionamide) dihydrochloride (V50) as the initiator and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid tetrasodium (Na4 EDTA) as a metal ion complexing agent via an aqueous solution polymerization method. Using the intrinsic viscosity of the product as the inspection index, the polymerization reaction conditions were optimized by the response surface optimization method, and the optimum conditions obtained were: w (MADAAC)=70.2%, m (V50): m (MADAAC)=2.05%, m (Na4 EDTA): m (MADAAC) =0.0141%, T 1 =55.0 °C, T 2 =60.0 °C and T 3 =80.1 °C, with the reaction lasting 9 h (see below). The average value of the intrinsic viscosity ([ η ]) of the obtained product was 0.84 dL/g, and the monomer conversion degree ( Conv. ) was 72.77%. The molecular weight characterizations of PMADAAC showed that the highest M w of PMADAAC was 2.380 × 10 5 and its polydispersity index d ( M w / M n ) was 1.952 for optimum properties. The results indicated that the introduction of the amyl group could increase the lipophilicity of the diallyl quaternary ammonium salts based on its good water solubility. For the demulsification performance of simulated crude oil O/W emulsions, the demulsification degrees were 88.9% for PMADAAC, 83.6% for polymethylpropyldiallylammonium chloride (PMPDAAC) and 45.5% for polydimethyldiallylammonium chloride (PDMDAAC), all at the same intrinsic viscosity.