Large volume flow rate acoustophoretic phase separator for oil water emulsion splitting

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dionne, Jason ^b   McCarthy, Brian ^b   Ross Johnsrud, Ben ^b   Masi, Louis ^b   Lipkens, Bart ^a  

^a WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; GRAVITATIONAL SETTLINGS; MICRON-SIZED PARTICLES; OIL SEPARATION EFFICIENCIES; REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES; ULTRASONIC STANDING WAVES;

BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; EMULSIFICATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SEPARATORS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

FLOW RATE;

EID: 84878973183     PISSN: 1939800X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4799373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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