Water-lubricated oil flows in a Couette Apparatus

Self-lubricating flow of bitumen froth occurs when water droplets dispersed in the viscous oil phase form a lubricating layer surrounding a bitumen-rich core in a commercial pipeline operated by Syncrude Canada Ltd. In this study, self-lubricating flow was modelled experimentally by shearing water-i...

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Other Authors: Sanders, S.
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-05282012-104637