Current phenomenological know-how and modeling of emulsion inversion

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2665-2676

  Salager, Jean Louis ^a   Marquez, Laura ^a   Peña, Alejandro A ^a,b   Rondón, Miguel ^a,c   Silva, Félix ^a,c   Tyrode, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EMULSIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE INTERFACES; PRESSURE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TEMPERATURE;

DYNAMIC INVERSION PATTERNS; EMULSION INVERSION; STIRRING ENERGY; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATION; VISCOSITY OF PHASES;

EMULSIONS;

EMULSIFYING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISPERSION; EMULSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0034238195     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990778x     Document Type: Article

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