Macroscopic wettability based on an interfacial jump condition

Macroscopic wettability based on an interfacial jump condition.

Young's equation, describing an interfacial equilibrium condition of a liquid droplet on a smooth solid surface, raises issues concerning the existence of a sine term which has not yet been resolved theoretically and continues to be discussed to the present day. From a thermodynamics viewpoint, the equilibrium condition arises by minimizing the total free energy of the system while intensive pa...

Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery, Wettability Alteration and Interfacial Tension Reduction by an Efficient Bacterial Consortium, ERCPPI-2

In the present study, the potential of a bacterial consortium of Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas sp. (ERCPPI-2) for microbial enhanced oil recovery was investigated. Various mechanisms of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) as a result of using ERCPPI-2 and its metabolic products were studied in detail. The obtained results showed that under simulated reservoir ...

Macroscopic Gas-Liquid Interfacial Equation Based on Thermodynamic and Mathematical Approaches

Environmental Applications of Interfacial Materials with Special Wettability.

Interfacial materials with special wettability have become a burgeoning research area in materials science in the past decade. The unique surface properties of materials and interfaces generated by biomimetic approaches can be leveraged to develop effective solutions to challenging environmental problems. This critical review presents the concept, mechanisms, and fabrication techniques of inter...

Influence of wettability and saturation on liquid-liquid interfacial area in porous media.

The knowledge of the area of interfaces between phases is important to understand and quantify many flow and transport processes in porous media. In this work, we apply the interfacial tracer technique to study the dependence of fluid-fluid interfacial area on saturation and wettability. The interfacial area between the wetting and the nonwetting phases (brine and decane) in unconsolidated poro...