Water-in-oil emulsions pose significant challenges in the petroleum and chemical industrial
processes, necessitating the coalescence enhancement of dispersed water droplets in …

The aim of present study is development of a mathematical model to predict water and salt
removal efficiencies in an industrial crude oil desalting plant at steady state condition. The …

Desalting plants are often installed in crude oil production units in order to remove water-
soluble salts from an oil stream. Experiments in both the laboratory and field have shown the …

For breakdown of each type of stable oil-water and oil-slime emulsions, individual
approaches for selection of effective emulsion breakers or their compositions with the …

The mechanism of dehydration of a water-in-oil emulsion is complex and involves the
growth of an emulsion of polydispersed water droplets in oil, under an electric field, and their …

The main aim of present study is to develop a mathematical model to analyze the
performance of an industrial gravitational coalescer to separate water from crude oil. The …

The main aim of the present study is to develop a detail mathematical model to investigate
the performance of an industrial electrostatic desalting process. The dehydration process …

The desalting process of an electrostatic desalting unit was studied using the collision time
of two droplets in a water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion based on force balance. Initially, the model …

Electrostatic desalters are commonly used to separate water from crude oil emulsions. In this
study, a novel mathematical model based on a bivariate population balance equation has …

The salt can reason severe difficulties like fouling, corrosion using salt deposition, and
catalyst poisoning in the downstream parts. This study presents a modification process for …