Salt spheres-inorganic structures isolated from petroleum-based emulsions

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1350-1357

  Cloud, Richard W ^a   Marsh, Samuel C ^b   Ramsey, Becky L ^b   Pultz, Robert A ^b   Poindexter, Michael K ^b  

^a NALCO COMPANY   (United States)

^b NALCO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; DEMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM REFINING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

KARL FISHER MEASUREMENTS; OIL-WATER INTERFACE; WATER-IN-CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 34250168361     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef060431o     Document Type: Conference Paper

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