Resolution of Water-In-Crude Oil Emulsions Using Ionic Liquids

• Main Author: Edu Angue, Luis Faustino
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: IRC 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16677/1/Dissertation%20LFEA%2013973%20Final.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16677/

The most common type of emulsion found in oil field is water-in-crude oil. Water-in-crude oil emulsions are unstable colloidal dispersions with water as the dispersed phase and oil as the continuous phase. It occurs in almost every phase of the oil field from the sand face to the surface. About 80%...