Study of Bimodal Drop Size Distributions of Emulsion |
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Authors: | Mingzhong Li Chenwei Liu Chen Liang Jibin Li |
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Affiliation: | College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao , P. R. China |
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Abstract: | In order to increase the present understanding of bimodal emulsion drop size distributions, systematic series of experiments have been carried out to investigate the effects of formulation variables on bimodal drop size distributions, and probability distribution functions were proposed to analyze the distribution. The results show that, the span of the drop size and Sauter mean diameter become larger when the dispersed phase volume fraction becomes higher and rotor speed becomes lower; the Frechet function represents the experimental data satisfactorily. The prediction model of Sauter mean diameter established by combining the prediction theory of the maximum stable drop diameter and experimental analysis results can fit the experimental data well.![id=](/na101/home/literatum/publisher/tandf/journals/content/ldis20/2014/ldis20.v035.i03/01932691.2013.791989/20140312/images/medium/ldis_a_791989_o_uf0001.jpg) |
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Keywords: | Bimodal distribution drop breakage probability distribution predication model Sauter mean diameter |
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