Hydrocyclone performance with complex oil-water emulsions in the feed

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1159-1170

  Belaidi, Abdelhafid ^a   Thew, Martin T ^a   Munaweera, Sampath J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Complex emulsion; Hydrocyclone; Separation; Separation efficiency

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DEWATERING; DISPERSIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

HYDROCYCLONE STREAMS; OIL-WATER EMULSIONS;

EMULSIONS;

WATER OIL CREAM;

DROPLET; EFFICIENCY; HYDROCYCLONE; OIL-WATER EMULSION; SEPARATION CHARACTERISTICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CYCLONE SEPARATOR; DEVICE; FLOW RATE; HYDROCYCLONE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 2942665477     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450810605     Document Type: Article

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