Functional chitosan surfactants for corrosion inhibition in petroleum industry

Chitosan is a natural biodegradable biopolymer, and the structure of its unit is 2-amino-d-glucopyranose that has been it more attractive to applied as natural corrosion inhibitor of metals for different area. Functionalization chitosan by surfactant is necessary to improve some of its properties such as solubility, surface activity, and corrosion inhibition efficiency. Corrosion of metals is a global problem particularly in petroleum industry field needs to favorably inhibition process using environmentally friendly inhibitors such chitosan. In this work, it was presented on researches which taken chitosan functionalized by different types of surfactants as green corrosion inhibitor of metals in petroleum field. It was concluded from displayed researches data that functionalization of chitosan by surfactant could be on three categories; cationic, anionic and nonionic form. Otherwise, the unsaturated chain, benzene rings, and quaternary ammonium groups greatly increase the inhibition efficiency compared to hydrophobic chains. Furthermore, the nanoparticles of chitosan nonionic surfactant or those assembled on silver nanoparticles exhibited high inhibition efficiency. The inhibition performance of chitosan surfactant categories are more effective even at lower concentrations, and form a protective film onto metal surface, as well as and the inhibitor adsorption mechanism is mostly mixed type and obey Langmuir model.