Tezislər / Theses

LIQUID AND SURFACTANT 
Zahrakhanim Aliyeva, Almaz Heydarova 
Baku Higher Oil School 
Baku, Azerbaijan 
[e-mail] 
Supervisor: Sevda Zargarova
 
Keywords
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surfactants, carbon capture, ionic liquids, purity, absorption, CO
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The amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere is more 
than fifty billion tons per annum [2]. Carbon dioxide is the most common one 
among them, and it accounts for 75% of emissions staying in the atmosphere 
for thousands of years [10]. Additionally, it has been observed that CO2 has 
led to an increase of more than 1.5°C in global temperature since the middle 
of the 20th century [5]. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to remediate and 
handle this problem by applying interim technologies and modern techniques 

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to decrease CO2 emissions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change (IPCC) concluded that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 
have been planned to be decreased by 50-80% by 2050 to prevent 
undesirable consequences of global warming. 
The methods of mitigating this problem can be categorized into several 
groups. More specifically, capturing CO2 directly from an industrial scale is 
possible, namely cement klin, as well as various types of technologies such 
as membrane gas separation, adsorption, absorption, chemical looping, 
which can also be used [4]. Surfactants are utilized for capturing carbon on 
a wide spectrum, and two types of surfactants are used; synthetic and green 
[8]. The disadvantage of synthetic surfactants is that they are obtained from 
chemically toxic substances and are observed to culminate in serious 
environmental problems [6]. Therefore, green extraction of surfactants is 
suggested to be more environmentally and cost-friendly, efficient, and easily 
available than synthetic surfactants [7]. It is also predicted that natural 
surfactants are certain to be regarded as the best epitome for toxic and non-
biodegradable surfactants in Enhanced Oil Recovery EOR [3]. 
The following ionic liquids is going to be utilized for this experiment: