Water is co-produced with crude oils, generally in the form of water-in-crude oil emulsions.
The oil and water phases need to be separated before export. Separation is performed in …

Electrostatic demulsification process is frequently accompanied by the occurrence of droplet
breakup, which will cause a fall in the efficiency of droplet electro-coalescence. To uncover …

Contact charging of a conducting droplet in a dielectric medium is introduced as a novel and
useful digital microfluidic technology as well as an interesting scientific phenomenon. The …

In this research, we have developed a computational method for droplet sorting using a non-
uniform electric field. The method is based on a three-dimensional level-set method and the …

Hypothesis: The droplet-medium interfaces of petroleum emulsions are often stabilized by
the indigenous surface-active compounds (eg., asphaltenes), causing undesired issues …

Electric field assisted coalescence is one of the most efficient methods for water-in-oil
emulsion separation. In this paper, we experimentally study water droplet evolution in an oil …

The interaction and coalescence of a freely suspended drop pair, aligned in a uniform DC
electric field is investigated using experiments, analytical theory, and numerical calculations …

Electrocoalescence is an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly process for
demulsifying water-in-oil emulsions, which has been extensively used in the oil and …

The method of electrostatic force-assisted phase separation is widely used in the chemical
industry. The fast and clean separation capabilities make electrocoalescence a favorite …

Electrocoalescence is an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly process for
separating water-in-oil emulsions. In this study, nanoparticle-laden drop–interface …