Detection and monitoring of oil foams using raw capacitance data

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 636-645

  Pacho, Daniel ^a,b   Davies, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICATING OILS; MONITORING;

OIL FOAMS;

FOAMS;

OIL;

CONTROL SYSTEM; DETECTION METHOD; FOAM; INTERFACE; MONITORING SYSTEM; OIL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; FLUIDIZED BED; FOAM STABILITY; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHASE SEPARATION; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037419831     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020387+     Document Type: Article

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