Offering a complete and thorough examination of all topics affecting emulsion performance, the Encyclopedic Handbook of Emulsion Technology discusses fundamental characteristics, theories, and applications for liquid-liquid colloidal dispersions.

Profiling experimental and traditional measurement techniques in a variety of emulsified systems, including: rheology, nuclear magnetic resonance, dielectric spectroscopy, microcalorimetry, video enhanced microscopy, and conductivity.

With insights and reviews focusing on:

• fundamental properties and elements of the water/oil interface
• chemical administration of emulsion processes

Discusses:

• phase diagrams
• creaming/sedimentation
• flocculation
• coalescence
• final phase separation
• dielectric spectroscopy for studying emulsion and microemulsion systems and applications
• food emulsion systems
• viable options for different types of oil spills
• implementation of the Orimulsion Concept for processing extra heavy crude oils
• surveys the hydrodynamic and dynamic aspects of emulsified systems
• and more!

Contents

1. Characterization of Water/Oil Interfaces
2. A Few Examples of the Importance of Phase Diagrams for the Properties and Behavior of Emulsions
3. Structure and Stability of Emulsions
4. Coupling of Coalascence and Flocculation in Dilute O/W Emulsions
5. Macroemulsions from the Perspective of Microemulsions
6. Dielectric Spectroscopy on Emulsion and Related Colloid Systems: A Review
7. Electroacoustic Characterization of Emulsions
8. Acoustic and Electroacoustic Spectroscopy for Characterizing Emulsions and Microemulsions
9. Food Emulsions
10. Ultrasonic Characterization of Food Emulsions
11. The Structure, Mechanics, and Rheology of Concentrated Emulsions and Fluid Foams
12. Emulsions-the NMR Perspective
13. Surface Forces and Emulsion Stability
14. Microcalorimetry
15. Video-enhanced Microscopy Investigation of Emulsion Droplets and Size Distributions
16. Lignosulfonates and Kraft Lignins as O/W Emulsion Stabilizers Studied by means of Electrical Conductivity
17. Double Emulsions for Controlled-release Applications: Progress and Trends
18. Environmental Emulsions
19. Toward the Atomic-level Simulation of Water-in-Crude Oil Membranes
20. Heavy Hydrocarbon Emulsions: Making Use of the State of the Art in Formulation
21. Water-in-Oil Emulsions in Recovery of Hydrocarbons from Oil Sands
22. Interfacial Rheology of Crude Oil Emulsions
23. Film Properties of Asphaltenes and Resins
24. Chemical Demulsification of Stable Crude Oil and Bitumen Emulsions in Petroleum Recovery
25. Demulsifiers in the Oil Industry
26. Dynamic Processes in Surfactant-stabilized Emulsions
27. Three-phase Wellstream Gravity Seperation
28. Compact Electrostatic Coalescer Technology
29. Formation of Gas Hydrates in Stationary and Flowing W/O Emulsions
30. Asphaltene Emulsion

Index

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