1. A novel methodology for investigating foamy oil stability by an oil-based analogue model.
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Sun, Xiaofei, Zhang, Yanyu, Fang, Xiao, Wu, Shiqi, Chen, Guangpeng, Jules, Buntu, and Chen, Fuzhen
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CHEMICAL stability ,CHEMICAL precursors ,SURFACE active agents ,SOLUTION (Chemistry) ,CHEMICAL kinetics - Abstract
A novel methodology was developed based on oil-based foam to systematically investigate foamy oil stability. The first step was to generate an oil-based analogue model that has similar characteristics of foamy oil. Then, the effects of the key factors were investigated with the created oil-based foam by a new experimental procedure. Moreover, a statistical approach was utilized to ensure reliability of the experimental data. Finally, we proposed a new method to describe foamy oil rupture and simulate its defoaming kinetics. The results showed that the oil-based foam can be precursors to studies on actual foamy oil and other petroleum foams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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