Morphological transformations of native petroleum emulsions. I. Viscosity studies

Langmuir

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 7124-7131

  Evdokimov, Igor N ^a   Efimov, Yaroslav O ^a   Losev, Aleksandr P ^a   Novikov, Mikhail A ^a  

^a GUBKIN RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF OIL AND GAS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; EMULSIFICATION; FLOCCULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GELATION; GELS; RELIABILITY; VISCOSITY;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); CRUDE OILS; EMULSION INVERSION; FREE WATER; GEL DOMAINS; HOLD UP; MONO DISPERSED; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PETROLEUM EMULSIONS; SMALL DROPLETS; STRATIFIED FLOWS; VISCOSITY ANOMALY; VISCOSITY BEHAVIOR; WATER DROPLETS; WATER-IN-OIL (W/O) EMULSIONS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 47949093600     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la800628j     Document Type: Article

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