Drop-drop coalescence in an electric field: The effects of applied electric field and electrode geometry

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 219, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 253-279

  Eow, John S ^a,b   Ghadiri, Mojtaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Attraction; Drop break up; Drop drop coalescence; Electric field; Electrode; Electrostatic force; Pulsed direct current; Repulsion

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; SEPARATORS;

ELECTRO-SEPARATORS;

COALESCENCE;

OIL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS PROCESS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; GEOMETRY; LIQUID; OIL INDUSTRY; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORY; VIBRATION;

EID: 0038182546     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-7757(03)00051-7     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Sjöblom J., Urdahl O., Hoiland H., Christy A.A., Johansen E.J. Prog. Colloid. Polym. Sci. 82:1990;131-139.
2. S.E. Friberg, S. Jones, Emulsions, in: Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chem. Technol., 4th ed., Vol. 9, 1996, pp. 393-413.
3. J. Sjöblom (Ed.), Encyclopedic Handbook of Emulsion Technology, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001.
4. Dickinson E. Wedlock D.J. Controlled Particle, Droplet and Bubble Formation. 1994;Butterworths-Heinemann, Oxford. (Chapter 7).
5. Hunter R.J. Foundations of Colloid Science. 2:1995;Oxford University Press, Oxford. (Chapter 16).
6. Clayton W. Sumner C.G. The Theory of Emulsions and their Technical Treatment. 5th ed. 1954;J&A Churchill Ltd, London. (Chapter XIII).
7. Eow J.S., Ghadiri M., Sharif A.O., Williams T.J. Chem. Eng. J. 84:(3):2001;173-192.
8. Eow J.S., Ghadiri M. Chem. Eng. J. 85:2002;357-368.
9. Eow J.S., Ghadiri M. Sep. Purif. Technol. 29:2002;63-77.
10. Pearce C.A.R. Br. J. Appl. Phys. 5:1954;136-143.
11. T.J. Williams, The resolution of water-in-oil emulsions by the application of an external electric field, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southampton, 1989.
12. Sartor D. J. Meteorol. 11:1954;91-103.
13. Allan R.S., Mason S.G. J. Colloid. Sci. 17:1962;383-408.
14. Anisimov B.F., Emel'yanchenko V.G. Kollodnyi. Zh. 39:1976;528-534.
15. Krasny-Ergen W. Ann. Phys. 27:1936;459-471.
16. Eow J.S., Ghadiri M., Sharif A.O. J. Electrostat. 51-52:2001;463-469.
17. Eow J.S., Ghadiri M. Chem. Eng. Process. 42:(4):2003;259-272.
18. J.S. Eow, M. Ghadiri, Colloid. Surf. A, 215 (2003) 101-123.
19. Panofsky W.K.H., Phillips M. Classical Electricity and Magnetism. 2nd ed. 1978;Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
20. T.J. Williams, Private communication, 2002.
21. J.S. Eow, A. Speranza, I. Hayati, M. Ghadiri, Electrostatic effects in eliminating segregation and stratification in bulk granular mixtures, in: Proceedings of the World Congress on Particle Technology 4, Sydney, 22-25 July 2002.
22. Rayleigh L. Proc. London Math. Soc. 10:1879;4.
23. Rayleigh L. Philos. Mag. 34:1892;481.
24. Charles G.E., Mason S.G. J. Colloid. Sci. 15:1960;236-267.
25. Charles G.E., Mason S.G. J. Colloid. Sci. 15:1960;105-122.
26. Allan R.S., Mason S.G. Trans. Faraday Soc. 57:1961;2027-2040.
27. Lang S.B., Wilke C.R. Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam. 10:(3):1971;341-352.
28. Chatterjee J., Nikolov A.D., Wasan D.T. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 35:1996;2933-2938.