Could petroleum work as lubricant oil on slippery lubricated surfaces to prevent inorganic scaling?

The use of nucleation and growth inhibitors at offshore oil industry to avoid inorganic scaling could be replaced by both physical and chemical modifications at surfaces to prevent the scaling. In that way, the slippery lubricated surfaces have been showing promising results as scaling preventers, n...

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Main Authors: Filipe Signorelli, Celso Aparecido Bertran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020303145