Radar has been used for remote sensing and surveillance for decades. Nowadays radar remote sensing and radar surveillance is used for many different things in the modern society. Radar can sense objects or environments from very long distance. Electromagnetic radar waves can work where and when light cannot. This unique ability of radar made remote sensing techniques available in research and i...

Integration of Asphaltenes Flocculation Modeling into Athos Reservoir Simulator — To respond to the ever-growing needs of reservoir simulation studies in a large range of applications, it has been considered necessary to integrate an asphaltenes flocculation model into the Athos software. Athos is a multipurpose simulator which provides a lot of different physical options. Operating companies w...

Water-in-oil mixtures were grouped into four states or classes: stable, mesostable, unstable, and entrained water. Of these, only stable and mesostable states can be characterized as emulsions. These states were established according to lifetime, visual appearance, complex modulus, and differences in viscosity. Water content at formation was not an important factor. Water-in-oil emulsions made ...

Adsorption of asphaltenes at the water-oil interface contributes to the stability of petroleum emulsions by forming a networked film that can hinder drop-drop coalescence. The interfacial microstructure can either be liquid-like or solid-like, depending on (i) initial bulk concentration of asphaltenes, (ii) interfacial aging time, and (iii) solvent aromaticity. Two techniques--interfacial shear...

The ignition, combustion characteristics, and cenosphere formation of single droplets four vacuum residues (VRs) from different refineries with various asphaltene contents were studied experimentally. VRs suspended at the tip a silicon carbide fiber heated in air temperatures 973 1023 K, respectively, an electrically tube furnace. ignition behavior recorded using CCD camera, which enabled deter...

Sulfur chemical structures present in crude oil products such as petroleum asphaltenes, resins, and maltenes obtained from two different oils have been determined using X-ray absorption nearedge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. Maltenes are pentane soluble portions, resins are pentane insoluble and heptane soluble portions, and asphaltenes are heptane insoluble portions of crude oil. The sulfur ...