Suspensions : fundamentals and applications in the petroleum industry /

This book provides an introduction to the nature, formation and occurrence, stability, propagation, and uses of suspensions in the petroleum industry. Its audience is scientists and engineers who may encounter or apply suspensions, whether in process design, petroleum production, or research and dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Schramm, Laurier Lincoln
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, ©1996.
Series:	Advances in chemistry series ; 251.
Subjects:	Particles. Suspensions (Chemistry) Petroleum engineering. Particulate matter. Suspensions Particulate Matter Matière particulaire. Suspensions (Chimie) Technique du pétrole. Particules (Matière) SCIENCE > Chemistry > General. Particulate matter Particles Petroleum engineering Suspension Aufsatzsammlung Erdölindustrie Industrie pétrolière. Particules. Suspensions (chimie) Pétrole, Technique du. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Suspensions: Basic Principles / Laurier L. Schramm
2. Particle and Suspension Characterization / Ahmed I.A. Salama and Randy J. Mikula
3. Rheology of Suspensions / Shijie Liu and Jacob H. Masliyah
4. Flow of Suspensions in Pipelines / H.A. Nasr-El Din
5. Principles of Single-Phase Flow Through Porous Media / Shijie Liu and Jacob H. Masliyah
6. Permeability Decline Due to Flow of Dilute Suspensions Through Porous Media / H.A. Nasr-El-Din
7. Fines Migration in Petroleum Reservoirs / Brij Maini, Fred Wassmuth and Laurier L. Schramm
8. Asphaltenes in Crude Oil and Bitumen: Structure and Dispersion / James G. Speight
9. Solids Production and Control in Petroleum Recovery / Blaine F. Hawkins, Ion Adamache and Gerhard Leopold
10. Drilling Fluid Suspensions / Timothy G.J. Jones and Trevor L. Hughes
11. Suspensions in Hydraulic Fracturing / Subhash N. Shah
12. Principles and Applications of Cement Slurries / D. Guillot and J.F. Baret
13. Suspensions in the Hot Water Flotation Process for Canadian Oil Sands / Robert C. Shaw, Laurier L. Schramm and Jan Czarnecki
14. Nature and Fate of Oil Sands Fine Tailings / Randy J. Mikula, Kim L. Kasperski, Robert D. Burns and Mike D. MacKinnon
Glossary: Suspension Terminology / Laurier L. Schramm.