Herschel-Bulkley rheological parameters of lightweight colloidal gas aphron (CGA) based fluids

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 21-29

  Ziaee, Hossein ^a   Arabloo, Milad ^a   Ghazanfari, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Rashtchian, Davood ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aphron; Biopolymer; Biosurfactant; Herschel Bulkley; Microbubble; Rheometric data

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; DRILLING FLUIDS; OIL FIELDS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR THINNING; STARCH; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; XANTHAN GUM; YIELD STRESS;

APHRON; BIO SURFACTANT; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY; MICRO-BUBBLE; RHEOMETRIC DATA;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 84920866636     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2014.03.023     Document Type: Article

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