Emulsions and Emulsion Stability provides comprehensive coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of emulsions.

Features:

• Provides a comprehensive treatise of the emulsion phenomenon from a practical and a theoretical point of view
• Covers experimental characterization, technical systems, separation technology, and a variety of models for the separation performance
• Discusses how highly concentrated emulsions can be used as templates for solid, macroporous foams
• Describes numerical simulation of fluids, batch and continuous separation, and fluid behavior
• Offers essential background to the isolation, separation, and characterization of individual acids occurring in crude oils
• Explains the use of video microscopy as a technique to monitor online the droplet size distribution in product lines from the separator and on-line instrumentation

Contents

• An Experimental and Theoretical Approach to the Dynamic Behavior of Emulsions
• Spontaneous Emulsification: Recent Developments with Emphasis on Self-Emulsification
• Symmetric Thin Liquid Films With Fluid Interfaces
• Emulsion Phase Inversion Phenomena
• Phase Inversion Studies as a Tool for Optimization and Characterization of Surfactant Mixtures in Specific Oil/Water Systems
• Highly Concentrated Emulsions as Templates for Solid Foams
• Organic Reactions in Emulsions and Microemulsions
• NMR Characterization of Emulsions
• Ultrasound for Characterizing Emulsions and Microemulsions
• Environmental Emulsions: A Practical Approach
• Bitumen Emulsions
• Modern Characterization Techniques for Crude Oils, Their Emulsions and Functionalized Surfaces
• Production Issues of Acidic Petroleum Crude Oils
• Formation of Crude Oil Emulsions in Chemical Flooding
• Electrocoalescence for Oil-Water Separation: Fundamental Aspects
• Numerical Simulation of Fluid Mechanisms and Separation Behavior in Offshore Gravity Separators
• Design Criteria and Methodology for Modern Oil-Water Separation Systems
• Droplet Size Distributions of Oil-In-Water Emulsions Under High Pressures by Video Microscopy
• Monitoring of Demulsification of Crude Oil Emulsions by Conductivity Measurements

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