Physico-chemical properties of heavy crude oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by mixtures of ionic and non-ionic ethoxylated nonylphenol surfactants and medium chain alcohols

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 957-967

  dos Santos, Ronaldo Gonçalves ^a   Bannwart, Antonio Carlos ^a   Briceño, Maria Isabel ^b   Loh, Watson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Droplet size; Heavy crude oil; Petroleum emulsion; Rheology; Stability

Indexed keywords

APPARENT VISCOSITY; AQUEOUS PHASE; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CRUDE OIL VISCOSITY; DIRECT IMPACT; DROPLET SIZES; EMULSIFICATION PROCESS; ETHOXYLATED SURFACTANTS; HEAVY CRUDE OIL; HEAVY CRUDES; HEAVY OIL-IN-WATER EMULSION; MEDIUM-CHAIN ALCOHOLS; NONIONIC; NONYLPHENOLS; OIL CONTENTS; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; PETROLEUM EMULSION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; SAUTER MEAN DIAMETERS;

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CRUDE OIL; DROPS; ELASTICITY; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; MIXTURES; PHENOLS; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VISCOSITY;

HEAVY WATER;

EID: 79956352749     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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