The Stability of Water‐in‐Crude and Model Oil Emulsions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The critical electric field (cef) technique has been utilized to measure the stabilities of a variety of water‐in‐model oil and petroleum emulsions. The cef method allows for a fast, reproducible, and quantitative gauge of emulsion stability. Here, we have used cef to measure the stability of water‐in‐heptane‐toluene‐asphaltene emulsions and confirmed the importance of solvation of asphaltenes and the state of asphaltene aggregation to emulsion stability. Emulsion stability increased with the concentration of soluble asphaltenes near the point of precipitation. Droplet sizes were measured with optical microscopy in order to calculate interfacial areas and film thicknesses. It was found that film thickness increased with asphaltene concentration up to the solubility limit, above which increased concentration had little effect, and cef increased with interfacial film thickness up to a monolayer coverage of asphaltene aggregates, above which film thickness had a much smaller effect. These findings were applied to a cef investigation of water‐in‐ppetroleum emulsions to develop correlations of the stability of water‐in‐ccrude oil emulsions. A strong correlation (coefficient = 0.95) was found for cef with the product of asphaltene concentration and the difference in hydrogen to carbon atomic ratios of the asphaltenes and petroleum solvent. The development of a kinetic model and its fit to experimental data revealed the effects of asphaltene chemistry, solvency, and resin concentration on the adsorption and consolidation of emulsion stabilizing interfacial films.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".