With the ever increasing demand for energy to meet the needs of growth in population and
improvement in the living standards in particular in develo** countries, the abundant …

Bubble-particle interaction is of great theoretical and practical importance in flotation.
Significant progress has been achieved over the past years and the process of bubble …

Water soluble polymer flocculants are important constituents of solid–liquid separation units
for the treatment of a variety of process‐affected effluents. The systematic development of a …

Carbonate rock reservoirs comprise approximately 60% of the world's oil and gas reserves.
Complex flow mechanisms and strong adsorption of crude oil on carbonate formation …

The current state of knowledge on the fundamentals of bitumen recovery from Athabasca oil
sands using water‐based extraction methods is reviewed. Instead of investigating bitumen …

Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) has been proven to be a
powerful research tool to investigate in situ interactions between nanoparticles and different …

Many advances have been made in the field of emulsions in recent years. Emulsion
behavior is largely controlled by the properties of the adsorbed layers that stabilize the oil …

Wetting phenomena of oil/water/solid systems are fundamentally governed by the stability of
confined water film and interaction mechanism between oil droplet and solid surface in …

The colloidal interactions between asphaltene surfaces in heptol, a mixture of n-heptane
and toluene, were studied for the first time by colloidal force measurements using an atomic …

Hot or warm water processes are used to extract bitumen from Canadian oil or tar sands.
The application of these methods to the processing of tar sand deposits found in the Western …