COMPATIBILITY STUDIES ON POLYMER/WAX AND POLYMER/RESIN-ASPHALTENE BY VISCOMETRY AND PHOTOMICROGRAPHY

The compatibility of mixtures of polymeric pour point depressants, i.e. poly(ethylene-co-vinylacetate) (EVA), poly (EVA-graft-octadecylacrylate) (EVA-g-POA ), poly (ethylene-co-octadecylacrylate) (EOA) and poly(ethylene oxide-co-propylene oxide) (EO-co-PO) withwax or resin-asphaltene from crude oil have been studied by means of dilute-solution vis-cometry. It was found that each mixture pair is incompatible, but the degrees of incompati-bility are quite different, which are in good agreement with the results from photomicrog-raphy.