Separation of oil/water emulsions in continuous flow using microwave heating

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3173-3178

  Binner, Eleanor R ^a   Robinson, John P ^a   Kingman, Sam W ^a   Lester, Ed H ^a   Azzopardi, Barry J ^a   Dimitrakis, Georgios ^a   Briggs, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FLOWS; GRAVITY SETTLING; LIQUID FLOW RATES; MICROWAVE SYSTEMS; OIL/WATER EMULSION; POWER DENSITIES; PROCESS EQUIPMENTS; WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS;

EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FLOW RATE; MICROWAVE HEATING;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 84879379076     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef400634n     Document Type: Article

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