[article]
Titre : |
Determination of water-in-oil emulsion viscosity in porous media |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Mohamed Arhuoma, Auteur ; Mingzhe Dong, Auteur ; Daoyong Yang, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2009 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 7092–7102 |
Note générale : |
Chemical engineering |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Water-in-oil emulsions Porous media |
Résumé : |
Experiments have been conducted to determine the viscosities of water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions in porous media. W/O emulsions were first prepared for different volume fractions of the dispersed phase and then characterized for their properties and rheological parameters including flow index and consistency constant. All prepared W/O emulsions with volume fractions between 6.78% and 33.48% were found to behave as non-Newtonian shear-thinning fluids at fairly high viscosities. The viscosities of the emulsions were measured during emulsion flow in three types of sandpacks. A correlation of the viscosities of the W/O emulsions in porous media was developed by performing a regression on the experimentally measured data. The newly developed correlation was validated, and a sensitivity analysis was performed to examine the effects of tortuosity and emulsion quality. The emulsion quality has a dominant effect on the viscosity of the W/O emulsions and has been included in the correlation for the first time to achieve accurate predictions of the viscosities of W/O emulsions in porous media. The existing correlations for oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions provide underestimated predictions for the viscosities of W/O emulsions, whereas the droplet size distribution does not have a significant impact on the viscosity of the W/O emulsions tested in this study. |
En ligne : |
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie801818n |
in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 48 N° 15 (Août 2009) . - pp. 7092–7102
[article] Determination of water-in-oil emulsion viscosity in porous media [texte imprimé] / Mohamed Arhuoma, Auteur ; Mingzhe Dong, Auteur ; Daoyong Yang, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 7092–7102. Chemical engineering Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 48 N° 15 (Août 2009) . - pp. 7092–7102
Mots-clés : |
Water-in-oil emulsions Porous media |
Résumé : |
Experiments have been conducted to determine the viscosities of water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions in porous media. W/O emulsions were first prepared for different volume fractions of the dispersed phase and then characterized for their properties and rheological parameters including flow index and consistency constant. All prepared W/O emulsions with volume fractions between 6.78% and 33.48% were found to behave as non-Newtonian shear-thinning fluids at fairly high viscosities. The viscosities of the emulsions were measured during emulsion flow in three types of sandpacks. A correlation of the viscosities of the W/O emulsions in porous media was developed by performing a regression on the experimentally measured data. The newly developed correlation was validated, and a sensitivity analysis was performed to examine the effects of tortuosity and emulsion quality. The emulsion quality has a dominant effect on the viscosity of the W/O emulsions and has been included in the correlation for the first time to achieve accurate predictions of the viscosities of W/O emulsions in porous media. The existing correlations for oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions provide underestimated predictions for the viscosities of W/O emulsions, whereas the droplet size distribution does not have a significant impact on the viscosity of the W/O emulsions tested in this study. |
En ligne : |
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie801818n |
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