Petroleum industry applications

Emulsions, Foams, and Suspensions Fundamentals and Applications. Laurier L. Schramm Copyright 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 3-527-30743-5 

Migrating fines during secondary and enhanced oil recovery S/W 

Producing (well-head) solids in conventional oil recovery S/W, S/O 

Producing (well-bore) foams in cold, heavy-oil recovery G/O 

Emulsions, foams, suspensions and aerosols occur, or are created, throughout the full range of processes in the petroleum producing industry (see Table 11.1), including drilling and completion, fracturing and stimulation, reservoir recovery. 

Emulsions, Foams, Suspensions, and Aerosols Microscience and Applications, 

Produced (wellhead) emulsions Producing oil well and wellhead foams Fuel oil emulsions 

upgrader, and refinery smoke and soot emissions 

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Chapters 5 and 6 begin the progression into more practical emulsion considerations by describing the fiow properties of emulsions in pipelines and in porous media. Armed with the necessary tools, the reader is next introduced to some petroleum industry applications of emulsions. Chapters 7 and 8 cover some important areas in which emulsification is a desirable process in some enhanced oil recovery processes and in petroleum transportation via emulsion pipelining. 

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