Toward mechanistic understanding of heavy crude oil/brine interfacial tension: The roles of salinity, temperature and pressure

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 375, Issue , 2014, Pages 191-200

  Moeini, Farzaneh ^a   Hemmati Sarapardeh, Abdolhossein ^a   Ghazanfari, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Masihi, Mohsen ^a   Ayatollahi, Shahab ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Interfacial tension; Pendent drop method; Pressure; Salinity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BRINES; DROPS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE; WATER INJECTION;

AXISYMMETRIC DROP SHAPE ANALYSIS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; NACL AQUEOUS SOLUTION; PENDENT DROP METHOD; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL MECHANISMS; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

CRUDE OIL;

EID: 84901919575     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2014.04.017     Document Type: Article

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