Abstract

VAZQUEZ V., ADRIAN; LOPEZ M., ARTURO; ANDRADE C., LUIS J.  and  VAZQUEZ A., ARIANA M.. MICROWAVE HEATING AND SEPARATION OF WATER-IN-OIL EMULSION FROM MEXICAN CRUDE OIL. Dyna rev.fac.nac.minas [online]. 2014, vol.81, n.183, pp.16-21. ISSN 0012-7353.  https://doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v81n183.34802.

Microwave heating and gravity sedimentation are alternatives for demulsification and layer separation into oil and water layers, this process was demonstrated in the laboratory and provides an option for reducing and oil recovering from water-in-oil Mexican oil emulsions. The combinatorial process was implemented in a test lab using Mexican crude oil samples. The Laboratory samples were 100% and 50-50%, crude and crude-water respectively, were heated. The results were encouraging show that microwave heating and gravity sedimentation are alternatives for the separation of Mexican Oil emulsions.

Keywords : Microwave heating; Demulsification; Separation; Water-in-oil emulsions.

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