Asphaltene deposition in the reservoirs, tubbing, and surface facilities causes serious flow
assurance problems with significant economic implications. Asphaltene flow assurance …

Asphaltene is a component of crude oil that has been linked to serious production and
transportation issues. It is a solid oil component with various shapes and molecular …

Diverse processes—eg, environmental pollution, groundwater remediation, oil recovery,
filtration, and drug delivery—involve the transport of colloidal particles in porous media …

Asphaltene precipitation and its subsequent deposition is one of the major flow assurance
problems of oil industry. This issue could arise in upstream and downstream sectors. There …

Adsorption of asphaltene onto mineral or metal surface is an undesirable process with
several adverse effects such as wettability alteration, fouling pipelines/equipment …

Crude oils are complex mixtures of organic molecules, of which asphaltenes are the
heaviest component. Asphaltene precipitation and deposition have been recognized to be a …

Microfluidics-based lab-on-a-chip systems have shown great promise for characterization of
heavy oil and its fractions. Asphaltenes, comprising the heaviest and most complex fraction …

Si-glass microfluidics have long provided unprecedented precision, robustness and optical
clarity. However, chip fabrication is costly (∼ 500 USD per chip) and in practice, devices are …

The formation of organic sediments, especially asphaltene in reservoirs, wells and
equipment, has a harmful effect on the oil production economy, which reduces oil production …

Despite major advances made in visualization and quantification of the asphaltene
deposition process using microfluidic systems, a robust simulation approach complementing …