Predicting sizes of toluene-diluted heavy oil emulsions in turbulent flow. Part 1-Application of two adsorption kinetic models for σE in two size predictive models

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7309-7324

  Angle, Chandra W ^a   Dabros, Tadeusz ^a   Hamza, Hassan A ^a  

^a NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adsorption kinetics; Heavy oil emulsions; Interfacial tension; Size prediction; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; SURFACE TENSION; TURBINES; TURBULENT FLOW;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; HEAVY OIL EMULSIONS; SIZE PREDICTION;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION; TURBINES; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33750448335     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.08.032     Document Type: Article

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