Electrostatic destabilization of water-in-crude oil emulsions: Application to a real case and evaluation of the Aibel VIEC technology

Fuel

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2572-2581

  Less, Simone ^a   Hannisdal, Andreas ^b   Bjørklund, Erik ^b   Sjöblom, Johan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Vetco Aibel AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Droplet size distribution; Electrocoalescence; Emulsion stability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; EMULSIONS; OIL FIELDS; SEPARATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CHEMICAL TREATMENT; COMMERCIAL DEMULSIFIER; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCOALESCENCE; EMULSION STABILITY;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 43849084401     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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