ArticleACS omega2020
Microfluidic Study of the Electrocoalescence of Aqueous Droplets in Crude Oil.
Article in ACS omega, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Non-Laplacian air-gap electrostatics for high-field oil-water nanoemulsion separation.Science advances · 2025Article
- Mechanistic Insights into Emulsion Destabilization by Electric Fields.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
- Molecular Dynamics Study of the Coalescence of Water Droplets with Anionic Asphaltene Molecules under a DC Electric Field.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
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- Contactless Method for Electrocoalescence of Water in Oil.ACS omega · 2021Article
- Microfluidic testing of flocculants for produced water treatment: Comparison with other methodologies.Water research X · 2020Article
- Investigating the Applicability of Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Estimating the Wettability of Sandstone Hydrocarbon Formations.ACS omega · 2020Article
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Abstract
In electrocoalescence, an electric field is applied to a dispersion of conducting water droplets in a poorly conducting oil to force the droplets to merge in the direction of the field. Electrocoalescence is used in petroleum refining to separate water from crude oil and in droplet-based microfluidics to combine droplets of water in oil and to break emulsions. Using a microfluidic design to generate a two-dimensional (2D) emulsion, we demonstrate that electrocoalescence in an opaque crude oil can be visualized with optical microscopy and studied on an individual droplet basis in a chamber whose height is small enough to make the dispersions two dimensional and transparent. From reconstructions of images of the 2D electrocoalescence, the electrostatic forces driving the droplet merging are calculated in a numerically exact manner and used to predict observed coalescence events. Hence, the direct simulation of the electrocoalescence-driven breakdown of 2D emulsions in microfluidic devices can be envisioned.
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