Efficient liquid-liquid separations are an integral part of many industrial processes. Water entrained in oil and other hydrocarbon products can impede quality specifications. Entrained oil in process water streams puts additional demands on effluent treatment systems. Under the present economic environment, processing production demands push plants and existing equipment beyond the original de...

Some simple lipid-water systems have been studied by x-ray scattering techniques, as a function of lipid concentration and temperature. Several liquid-crystalline phases have been found, and their structure has been determined: only one of these is lamellar. In all these phases the hydrocarbon part of the lipid molecules has a disordered, liquid-like structure. One biological phospholipid, a hu...

Abstract The article presents the results of study heat exchange process during non-heating hydrocarbons. Heat transfer between carriers occurs mainly through thermal conductivity, convection. intensity decreases when gases are formed in composition heated liquid hydrocarbon. As temperature hydrocarbon mixture increases, gas formation apparatus, their partial respectively. value coefficient cha...

Triphilic star-polyphiles are short-chain oligomeric molecules with a radial arrangement of hydrophilic, hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon chains linked to a common centre. They form a number of liquid crystalline structures when mixed with water. In this contribution we focus on a hexagonal liquid crystalline mesophase found in star-polyphiles as compared to the corresponding double-chain surfactan...