In the petroleum industry, oil and water emulsions are frequent, not only in oilfield operations
but also during the transportation and refining processes. Once depicting emulsion …

The need for efficient demulsification process to treat emulsions in the petroleum industry is
well acknowledged. For decades, numerous researches have been conducted to examine …

As the global oil market continues to tighten, there is an increasing focus on enhancing oil
recovery. However, enhanced oil recovery technologies require the addition of chemical …

The processing of crude oil often requires the extraction of a large amount of water.
Frequently, crude oil is mixed with water to form water-in-crude oil emulsions as the result of …

The oil industry faces with crude oil emulsions formation issue. It is a common problem for
the most of oil-producing countries around the world, including the Republic of Kazakhstan …

The current work investigates the effect of oil to kerosene ratio, space velocity, temperature,
demulsifier dosage, and wash water ratio on the performance of demulsification of water-in …

Removing emulsified water from a water-in-crude oil (W/O) emulsion is critically required
prior to downstream processing in the petroleum industry. In this work, environmentally …

Power ultrasound, as an emerging green technology has received increasing attention of
the petroleum industry. The physical and chemical effects of the periodic oscillation and …

Surfactant has distinctive effects on the coalescence of water droplets in water-in-oil (W/O)
emulsions under electric field. In an attempt to reveal the molecular mechanisms underlying …

Abstract Treatment of the oilfield wastewater from the chemical and petroleum industries,
often present in the form of emulsion, is one of the major environmental concern in current …