Surfactant Synergistic Effect and Interfacial Properties of Microemulsions Compounded with Anionic and Nonionic Surfactants Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics

Abstract

Microemulsions are one of the most promising directions in enhanced oil recovery, but conventional screening methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive and lack the means to analyze them at the microscopic level. In this paper, we used the Clint model to predict the changes in the synergistic effect of the mixed system of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate and nonionic surfactant polyethoxylated fatty alcohols (C12E6), generated microemulsions using surfactant systems with different mole fractions, and used particle size to analyze the performance and stability of microemulsions, analyze the properties and stability of microemulsions using particle size, and analyze the interfacial behaviors and changes of microemulsions when different systems constitute microemulsions from the point of view of mesoscopic microemulsion self-assembly behaviors by combining with dissipative particle dynamics. It has been shown that microemulsion systems generated from anionic and nonanionic surfactants with a synergistic effect, based on the Clint model, exhibit excellent performance and stability at the microscopic level. The method proposed in this paper can dramatically improve the screening efficiency of microemulsions of anionic and nonanionic surfactants and accurately analyze the properties of microemulsions, so as to provide a theoretical basis for the subsequent research on microemulsions.