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Electrocoalescence of Water Droplets in Oil Emulsions: Effect of Electric Fields, Surfactants, and Chemical Demulsifiers
DownloadSpring 2019
Stabilization of water-in-oil droplets during bitumen extraction and refining process poses a major challenge in the oil sands industry. These crude oil emulsions are stabilized by rigid films at water droplet-oil interfaces. The salty water remaining in oil causes equipment corrosion, catalyst...
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Localization Model description of interfacial dynamics of free-standing nanoparticles and thin films, and nanoparticle on supporting interacting substrate
DownloadFall 2022
Localization model (LM) relates, without any free parameter, slow dynamics of α-relaxation time (τα) to fast dynamics of Debye-Waller Factor (DWF) or ⟨u2⟩, which is the mean square displacement of particles at a caging time on the order of picoseconds. Moreover, localization model can also...