Characterization of Carbon Black for Designing Novel Dispersants

Commercially available carbon black is used as the basis for designing novel dispersants. The potential advantage of our carbon black particle based Pickering emulsion is the ability to not only stabilize droplets but also to adsorb the more water-soluble and toxic fractions of petroleum. This dataset contains data for the characterization of commercially available and surface-modified carbon black, as part of an effort to determine the optimum characteristics for the dispersant. Modification methods include the use of diazonium chemistry to attach benzoic acid functional groups using para-amino benzoic acid (PABA). Characterization methods include thermogravimetic analysis (TGA), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and pKa determination by acid-base titration.本研究以商用炭黑为基础开展新型分散剂的设计工作。基于炭黑颗粒的皮克林乳液（Pickering emulsion）具备潜在优势：不仅可稳定液滴，还能吸附石油中水溶性更强、毒性更高的组分。本数据集包含商用炭黑与表面改性炭黑的表征数据，相关工作旨在确定分散剂的最优性能特征。改性方法采用重氮化学路径，通过对氨基苯甲酸（PABA）接枝苯甲酸官能团。表征手段涵盖热重分析（TGA）、傅里叶变换红外光谱（FTIR）以及酸碱滴定法测定pKa。