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SUBMITTER: Leary T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7144161 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS omega 20200323 13
In electrocoalescence, an electric field is applied to a dispersion of conducting water droplets in a poorly conducting oil to force the droplets to merge in the direction of the field. Electrocoalescence is used in petroleum refining to separate water from crude oil and in droplet-based microfluidics to combine droplets of water in oil and to break emulsions. Using a microfluidic design to generate a two-dimensional (2D) emulsion, we demonstrate that electrocoalescence in an opaque crude oil ca ...[more]