Emulsion catastrophic inversion from abnormal to normal morphology. 1. Effect of the water-to-oil ratio rate of change on the dynamic inversion frontier

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-56

  Zambrano, Noelia ^a   Tyrode, Eric ^a   Mira, Isabel ^a   Márquez, Laura ^a   Rodríguez, Maria Patricia ^a   Salager, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; MORPHOLOGY;

CATASTROPHIC INVERSION;

EMULSIONS;

WATER OIL CREAM;

OIL-WATER EMULSION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037425502     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0205344     Document Type: Article

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