Produção biogênica de sulfetos em amostras de água e óleo

• Autor(a) principal: Cortás, Laila de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15733
• topic: Production water; sulphate reducing bacteria; sulphide; corrosion; storage tanks; Água de produção; bactérias redutoras de sulfato; sulfeto; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::QUIMICA

During off-shore oil recovery, seawater injection for secondary oil recovery, produces hydrogen sulphide (H2S), due to the presence of sulphate reducing bacteria (SRB), that reduces sulphate from seawater to sulphide. The massive production of H2S is presently one of the main problems in the petroleum industries, constituting one of the main causes of corrosion in production lines (dutes), equipments and tanks. The main microbial species found in this type of saline samples comes from water and oil storage tanks in the petroleum industry, being general anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria (GAHB) and sulphate reducing bacteria (SRB). Presently, the quantification of those microbial groups is made through a technique known as Most Probable Number (MPN). This quantification is obtained in around 28 days. In the present work a methodology based on the semi-continuous production of sulphide during 15 days was conducted, in an attempt to correlate these results with the quantification of GAHB and SRB cells through conventional MPN technique. In this case, the most suitable conditions for biogenic sulphide production in tanks, was studied through the evaluation of environmental parameters such as salinity, temperature and culture medium composition. It could be observed that an increase in salinity and temperature of the medium produced a marked decrease in the semi-continuous biogenic production of sulphide. In relation to the culture medium, its dilution promoted a decreased in cell growth, consequently in the production of sulphides. The quantification of SRB and GAHB was evaluated through the MPN technique, according to procedures suggested by FDA in 2011 and Harrigan in 1998. It was observed that this last procedure underestimated the microbial population, due to the lack of information about limits and standard deviations