Chlorine determination in crude oil is made in order to guarantee that the oil does not
contain levels of this element that might cause damages in the oil processing equipment. In …

The offshore extraction of crude oil produces stable water in oil emulsion. To separate this
emulsion into oil and water phases, the oil/water interfacial film is commonly destroyed by …

We use the microfluidics technique to study the coalescence of model oil droplets in
microchannels. Different stages of the coalescence: convergence of the droplets and liquid …

The major contaminant targeted during the treatment of the oilfield produced water is
dispersed oil. The efficiency of most separation processes highly relies on the size of 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 …

This paper studied the evolution of binary droplet collision in liquid and also a mathematical
calculation method of coalescence time. Binary droplet collisions occur in many engineering …

The coalescence of binary water droplets in oil exposed to an external electric field is
simulated using a model including both electrostatic and hydrodynamic sections. Available …

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 …

The transient electrohydrodynamics of a compound drop under a uniform electric field of
small strength is investigated. A closed form analytical solution is developed for creeping …

Droplet electrocoalescence is of interest for various applications such as petroleum
dehydration, electrospray ionization, and surface self-cleaning. Here, the effects of …