Petroleum Oil Dispersion Efficiency and Stability Using Eco-Friendly Chitosan-Based Surfactant and Nanoparticles

摘要

In this article, a new aspect of comparing oil dispersion efficiency and stability using eco-friendly surfactants and nanoparticles of the same natural origin was carried out. Nanoparticles effectively disperse oil in water as well as do surfactant but with different actions; surfactants act by reducing the interfacial tension between oil and water leading to the distribution of oil in water while nanoparticles give stable and uniform distribution of oil in water depending on oil trapping inside the polymer matrix. As a result, the dispersion stability of nanoparticles was found to be superior to that of surfactant.