Role of asphaltenes in stabilizing thin liquid emulsion films

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3024-3033

  Tchoukov, Plamen ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Xu, Zhenghe ^a,b   Dabros, Tadeusz ^c   Czarnecki, Jan ^a   Sjöblom, Johan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CRUDE OIL; EMULSIONS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUID FILMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOLUENE; YIELD STRESS;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CRITICAL THICKNESS; DRAINAGE KINETICS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; OIL/WATER INTERFACES; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; STABILIZATION MECHANISMS; THIN LIQUID FILM;

ASPHALTENES;

EID: 84897097253     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la404825g     Document Type: Article

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