With the ever increasing demand for energy to meet the needs of growth in population and
improvement in the living standards in particular in developing countries, the abundant …

Unconventional petroleum ores have been considered to be an important part of petroleum
resources and an important alternative source of chemicals and energy supply. Extremely …

The components of petroleum asphaltenes exhibit complex bridged structures comprising
sulfur, nitrogen, aromatic, and naphthenic groups linked by alkyl chains. These components …

In this review we have summarised the current state of knowledge surrounding the effects of
particles as stabilizers of foams, in the context of food systems. One may distinguish …

Oil-in-water emulsions are currently being investigated to facilitate the transport of viscous
heavy oils. The behavior of these emulsions is largely controlled by the interfaces between …

When asphaltenes adsorb at liquid interfaces, after the rapid initial diffusion step toward the
interface, a long reorganization and a progressive building of multilayers occur. The …

In recent years, the behavior of crude oil interfacial tension (IFT) as a function of salt
concentration have been investigated. The results found in literature are highly …

Separating produced water is a key part of production processing for most crude oils. It is
required for quality reasons, and to avoid unnecessary transportation costs and prevent …

Demulsification and crude oil desorption are usually a necessary step for the treatment of
oily sludge in the petroleum industry. In this study a binary mixed bio-surfactant …

In this paper, the interfacial properties of simulating water with different components of crude
oil, including resins, waxes and asphaltenes, are investigated by interfacial tensiometer …