Determination of water-in-oil emulsion viscosity in porous media

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 7092-7102

  Arhuoma, Mohamed ^a   Dong, Mingzhe ^b   Yang, Daoyong ^a   Idem, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; DISPERSED PHASE; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; EMULSION FLOW; FLOW INDICES; MEASURED DATA; NON-NEWTONIAN; OIL-IN-WATER (O/W) EMULSION; POROUS MEDIA; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS; WATER-IN-OIL;

EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FORECASTING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TITRATION; VISCOMETERS;

VISCOSITY;

EID: 68549085324     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801818n     Document Type: Article

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