Probing Asphaltene Flocculation by a Quartz Crystal Resonator

Autor: Jérôme Pauly, Djamel Nasri, Hervé Carrier, Jean Luc Daridon, Marc Cassiède
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs (LFCR), TOTAL FINA ELF-Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Energy and Fuels
Energy and Fuels, American Chemical Society, 2013, 27 (8), pp.4639-4647. ⟨10.1021/ef400910v⟩
ISSN: 1520-5029
0887-0624
DOI: 10.1021/ef400910v
Popis: International audience; To design a sensitive indirect technique to assess the onset of flocculation, the response in resonant frequency and dissipation of a quartz crystal resonator totally immersed in an asphaltene solution was studied during titration experiments. A change in the resonant properties at the onset of flocculation was indeed observed. Both the dissipation and resonance frequency were sensitive to the flocculation. However, it was noted that only the dissipation measurement can be exploited to detect the onset of flocculation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE