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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on Mixing Characteristics of the Heavy Oil and the Light Oil Based on Experiment and Numerical Simulation
Adding the high condensate point heavy oil to low-temperature light oil forms gelled crude oil, which brings a new challenge for pipeline mixing flow assurance. This study utilizes a lab-scale stirring tank to...
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Investigation of wax deposition and effective diffusion coefficient in water-in-oil emulsion system
As pipeline transportation is widely used in the petroleum industry, the problem of wax deposition is a severe threat to the safety of oil and gas transportation. In addition, the mechanism of wax deposition i...
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Determination of the optimizing operating procedure for DSC test of wax-solvent samples with narrow and sharp wax peak and error analysis of data reliability
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), as a convenient and reliable thermal analysis technique, is widely used to analyze wax precipitation characteristics. This paper studies the optimizing operation condit...
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Study on the impact of silicon do** level on the trench profile using metal-assisted chemical etching
Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) has been used as a promising alternative method to fabricate micro/nano-structures on silicon substrates inexpensively. In this paper, profiles of deep trenches on silico...
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Effect of operating conditions on wax deposition in a laboratory flow loop characterized with DSC technique
In this paper, an experimental study about the influence of operating conditions in a laboratory flow loop on wax deposition phenomena by using DSC technique is presented. The operating conditions studied were...
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Advances in rheology and flow assurance studies of waxy crude
Flow assurance is one of the core issues in safe and economical operation of waxy crude pipelines. Its essence lies in flow and heat transfer of the crude. In the past 10 years, the authors’ team has achieved ...
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Physical properties of wax deposits on the walls of crude pipelines
Wax deposits on the wall of a crude oil pipeline are a solid wax network of fine crystals, filled with oil, resin, asphaltene and other impurities. In this paper, a series of experiments on wax deposition in a...
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A study of different fluid droplets impacting on a liquid film
Knowledge of droplet dynamics provides the basis of predicting pressure drops, holdups and corrosion inhibitor distribution in multiphase flow. Droplet size and its distribution also determine the separation e...
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Terpolymerization of Carbon Dioxide with Propylene Oxide and ε-Caprolactone: Synthesis, Characterization and Biodegradability
An aliphatic polycarbonate, terpolymer of carbon dioxide, propylene oxide and ε-caprolactone(PPC-CL-PPO-CL),was synthesized by using a polymer supported bimetallic complex as a catalyst.The terpolymers prepare...
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Fabrication of Nanoscale Hydrophobic Regions on Anodic Alumina for Selective Adhesion of Biologic Molecules
Studies of selective adhesion of biological molecules provide a path for understanding fundamental cellular properties. A useful technique is to use patterned substrates, where the pattern of interest has the ...
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Reconstructing sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity and partial pressure of carbon dioxide in atmosphere in the Okinawa Trough during the Holocene and their paleoclimatic implications
The sediment core DGKS9603 collected from the Okinawa Trough was used as research target. By use of unsaturated indexU 37 k of long-ch...
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Submicron Patterned Anodic Oxidation of Aluminum Thin Films
Alumina formed by the electrochemical anodization of bulk aluminum has a regular porous structure [1]. Sub-100 nm pores with aspect ratios as high as 1000:1 can easily be formed [2] without elaborate processin...
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The paleoclimatic events and cause in the Okinawa Trough during 50 kaBP
Planktonic foraminiferal δ18O record for core DGKS9603 from the Okinawa Trough shows a series of climatic fluctuations and sudden cooling events in short time scale during 50 kaBP, which appear to correlate close...
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Limit cycle for cubic system of Kolmogorov type with a conic algebraic trajectory
In this paper we study the existence of limit cycle for cubic system (Ē)3, of Kolmogorov type with a conic algebraic trajectory $$F_2 ...
