Plugs are cylindrical rocks with known dimensions that are extracted typically from reservoir formations with representative mineralogical compounds, petrophysical properties and oilfield fluids. They are used in the laboratory to understand the behaviour of oil in reservoirs. One of their applications is to study the screening of chemicals, such as surfactants and polymers, for enhanced oil recovery research before being applied in the reservoir. Many of Brazil’s pre-salt basins are located in ultra-deep waters, and the high heterogeneities of its offshore carbonate reservoirs make the extraction of representative rock samples difficult, risky and expensive. The literature reports the construction of synthetic plug samples that reproduce rocks as an alternative and viable solution for this issue. However, there is a lack of publications that focus on the construction of representative carbonate plugs that considers both the mineralogical composition and petrophysics properties, such as porosity and permeability. In this work, the construction of synthetic plugs is studied, using a combination of published methodologies to achieve an alternative construction of synthetic carbonate plugs for laboratory scale studies. Using a procedure based on the use of pulverized rock matrices with known particle sizes, uniaxial compaction, and probable CaCO3 solubility control by changing temperature and pH, it was possible to obtain synthetic carbonate plugs with a similar mineralogy to the natural carbonate reservoir. However, further studies are necessary to obtain more controlled petrophysical properties of such samples.

Palavras-chave: aço-carbono zincado por imersão a quente; processo não-contínuo de zincagem por imersão a quente; sais solúveis; cromatização; desempenho de tintas; pré-tratamentos para pintura. The batch galvanizing process (BGP) can lead to surface contamination of hot-dip galvanized steel (HDGS) with chloride residues. If these residues are not effectively eliminated, they can influence negatively on the performance of duplex systems (galvanizing plus painting). It is known that the chromate quenching is widely used in the BGP, however the effect of this post-treatment on the performance of duplex systems is not well established yet. In this sense, this work aimed: I -to verify the contamination degree of HDGS with chloride salt due to the BGP itself; II -to verify the effects of the chloride salt contamination and chromate quenching on the performance of paints applied on HDGS; and III -to determine the suitable surface preparation for painting in order for obtaining a good paint performance applied on HDGS. The adopted methodology to achieve goal I involved the galvanizing of steel plates in different service renderings with BGP, in different conditions. These HDGS plates were submitted to the qualitative energy dispersive microanalyses (EDS) in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and to the determination of superficial chloride contents by the boiling water extraction method. From the obtained results, the

a b s t r a c tA new tri-electrode probe is presented and applied to local electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (LEIS) measurements. As opposed to two-probe systems, the three-probe one allows measurement not only of normal, but also of radial contributions of local current densities to the local impedance values. The results concerning the cases of the blocking electrode and the electrode with faradaic reaction are discussed from the theoretical point of view for a disk electrode. Numerical simulations and experimental results are compared for the case of the ferri/ferrocyanide electrode reaction at the Pt working electrode disk. At the centre of the disk, the impedance taking into account both normal and radial contributions was in good agreement with the local impedance measured in terms of only the normal contribution. At the periphery of the electrode, the impedance taking into account both normal and radial contributions differed significantly from the local impedance measured in terms of only the normal contribution. The radial impedance results at the periphery of the electrode are in good agreement with the usual explanation that the associated larger current density is attributed to the geometry of the electrode, which exhibits a greater accessibility at the electrode edge.

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