[HTML][HTML] Oil–water two-phase flow-induced vibration of a cylindrical cyclone with vortex finder

H Chen, S Liu, J Zhang, JY Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Cylindrical cyclones play an important role in oil–water separation and sewage treatment in
the petroleum industry. Here, we describe the characteristics of vibration induced by a two …

[HTML][HTML] Coalescence kinetics of high internal phase emulsions observed by a microfluidic technique

YON Williams, M Wensveen, M Corstens… - Journal of Food …, 2024 - Elsevier
High internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) come with challenges regarding droplet stability
given the increased level of stress exerted on the thin films separating droplets owing to …

Is there a difference between surfactant-stabilised and Pickering emulsions?

RI Dekker, SF Velandia, HVM Kibbelaar, A Morcy… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
What measurable physical properties allow one to distinguish surfactant-stabilised from
Pickering emulsions? Whereas surfactants influence oil/water interfaces by lowering the …

[HTML][HTML] Oil-water separation in a cylindrical cyclone with vortex finder

J Zhang, Y He, S Liu, J Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Cylindrical cyclones are always used in the petroleum industry to separate the oil-water two-
phase mixtures or treatment the waste water. Here, we use dimensional analysis and …

Influence of carboxymethyl cellulose on the stability, rheology, and curcumin bioaccessibility of high internal phase Pickering emulsions

W Wang, S Ji, Q Xia - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been a focus on using biopolymer-based particles to stabilize high
internal phase Pickering emulsions (HIPPEs) due to the notable advances in …

Microscopic phenomena inferred from the rheological analysis of an emulsion

EP Marín Castaño, RHT Leite… - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The rheological behavior of an emulsion is determined by microstructural changes caused
by external loads. Some of these changes are irreversible due to the occurrence of the …

Testing and Evaluation of the Emulsifying Properties of Compound Oil Displacement Agents

L Zhang, K Wang, H An, Y Su, W Zhang, G Li… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aiming at the phenomenon that the emulsification degree of the composite oil displacement
agents affects the recovery factor, composite oil displacement agents of the P/S binary …

Divergence of critical fluctuations on approaching catastrophic phase inversion in turbulent emulsions

L Yi, I Girotto, F Toschi, C Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.06735, 2023 - arxiv.org
Catastrophic phase inversion, the sudden breakdown of a dense emulsion, occurs when the
dispersed majority phase irreversibly exchanges role with the continuous minority phase …

Special topic on dynamics of out of equilibrium soft materials

YM Joshi - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Any material at constant temperature and pressure has an inherent tendency, which
originates from the second law of thermodynamics, to lower its free energy and acquire a …

Comparison of synthetic and natural polymers-oil emulsions in terms of viscous and elastic behaviors

MT Ghannam, B Abu-Jdayil, MYE Selim… - Petroleum Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Viscous and elastic behaviors of the crude oil-polymer emulsions were studied
experimentally through Creep-recovery investigation. Two different types of polymers of …