Contaminants of environmental concern commonly reside in the sediment or solid phase.
The extent and rate of desorption has heretofore been particularly unpredictable. In the …

The terminology “cloud point” has been traditionaly adopted by the American Society for
Testing and Materials (ASTM) D2500 to refer to the temperature at which “cloudiness” of a …

Aromatic solvents and oil‐soluble amphiphiles are recognized as asphaltene precipitation
inhibitors in oil production and transportation. In the absence of the model describing the …

The desorption of contaminants from soils/sediments is one of the most important processes
controlling contaminant transport and environmental risks. None of the currently adopted …

Some years ago the authors proposed a model for the non-ideality of the solid phase, based
on the Predictive Local Composition concept. This was first applied to the Wilson equation …

A thermodynamic approach describing the precipitation of asphaltene materials from
petroleum fluids as a consequence of aggregate break-up is presented. The aggregation …

The formation of alloys of inorganic compounds has been known for centuries, yet it is not
only on metallurgy and ceramics that metals and inorganic salts in general form mixed …

A thermodynamic framework is developed for calculating the cloud point also known as WAT
(Wax Appearance Temperature) or WDT (Wax Disappearance Temperature) in petroleum …

In this research, wax deposition in horizontal well bores was studied. In a horizontal well, the
main mechanism for wax appearance is the pressure change rather than the temperature …