Evaluation of water content and average droplet size in water-in-crude oil emulsions by means of near-infrared spectroscopy

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3450-3458

  Araujo, Augusto M ^a,b   Santos, Leila M ^a   Fortuny, Montserrat ^a,b   Melo, Rosana L F V ^a   Coutinho, Raquel C C ^c   Santos, Alexandre F ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Tecnologia e Pesquisa   (Brazil)

^b TIRADENTES UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP FORMATION; DROPS; EMULSIONS; FLUID MECHANICS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ABSORBANCE; DROPLET SIZES; EMPIRICAL MODELLING; LOW WATER-CONTENT; NEAR INFRA-RED; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRUM; NIR REGIONS; NIR SPECTROSCOPY; NIR SPECTRUM; ON-LINE EVALUATION; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES; WATER-IN-CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS;

WATER CONTENT;

EID: 53849121649     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef800262s     Document Type: Article

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