Surfactant-based oil recovery processes are employed to lower the interfacial tension in immiscible displacement processes, change wettability of rock a more water-wet system and emulsify displace it subsurface porous media. Furthermore, these phenomena can reduce capillary pressure enhance spontaneous imbibition. The key factors affecting such process temperature, salinity pH fluids, surfactan...

A capillary tube is widely used as an expansion device for small refrigeration cycles. Recently, immiscible oil is sometimes used in the refrigeration cycle to improve severe lubricating conditions and to prevent blockage of the capillary tube caused by the hydrolysis of ester oil. This paper discusses the influence of mixing of the immiscible oil with the refrigerant on the flow characteristic...

One standard way of forming monolayers (MLs) of nanoparticles (NPs) is to drop-cast a NP dispersion made using one solvent onto a second, immiscible solvent; after this upper solvent evaporates, the NP ML can be transferred to a solid substrate by liftoff. We show that this previously universal use of only immiscible solvent pairs can be relaxed and close-packed, hexagonally ordered NP monolaye...

The rheological properties of blends of immiscible homopolymers have received much attention in recent years (Tucker and Moldenaers 2002). Several publications have been devoted to examining the relationship between the rheology and morphology of two-phase blends. A key strategy employed by many researchers was to conduct experiments on ‘‘model’’ blends that were comprised of rheologically-simp...

The modes of action of the commercial solvent extractants used in extractive hydrometallurgy are classified according to whether the recovery process involves the transport of metal cations, M(n+), metalate anions, MXx(n-), or metal salts, MXx into a water-immiscible solvent. Well-established principles of coordination chemistry provide an explanation for the remarkable strengths and selectivit...

An analysis is made for transient Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of two immiscible fluids thorough a horizontal channel. The flow above the interface is assumed to be electrically conducting while the other fluid and the channel walls are assumed to be electrically insulating. The partial differential equations governing the flow are solved analytically using two-term periodic and non-periodic ...

We investigate the effect of horizontal quasi-periodic oscillation on stability two superimposed immiscible fluid layers confined in a Hele-Shaw cell. To approximate real oscillations, with incommensurate frequencies is considered. Thus, linear analysis leads to oscillator, damping, which describes evolution amplitude interface. Two types instabilities occur: low-wavenumber Kelvin-Helmholtz ins...

Ionic liquids containing the hexafluoroacetylacetonate anion are immiscible with water and they exhibit strong metal-complexing ability.

Immiscible metals due to their inherent specs are insoluble over the steady state. Developing an innovative approach to this issue would be fascinating and challenge the overriding rules. Herein, we proffer the principles of synthesis of Cu-Nb nanocomposites using electrochemical deoxidation route. This method consists of the cathodic electrolysis of the nanoparticles Cu-Nb2O5 through the...

Experiments compare long-range chaotic mixing of miscible and immiscible impurities in a time-periodic flow. For the miscible case, the transport is enhanced diffusion with an effective diffusion constant determined by lobes (turnstiles) that carry impurities between vortices. For the immiscible case, the impurity is broken into a distribution of droplets. If the characteristic droplet size is ...