Deep eutectic solvents interaction with asphaltenes: A combined experimental and molecular dynamics study

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are industrially promising solvents and posses numerous applications in wide areas such as metal processing, synthesis media, synthesis of nanoparticles, gas sequestration and many more. In this work, we synthesized and investigated the performance of three deep eutectic solvents (DESs) i.e., reline, glyceline...

Quasi-1D Modelling of Particle-Laden Internal Turbulent Flows with Nucleation, Agglomeration and Breakup: Application to Asphaltenes Deposition in Oil Wells

Particle-laden internal turbulent flows are very commonplace, for example, in petrochemical flow lines, oil wells and so on. From an engineering view point, modelling such flows in a 3D or even 2D fashion may not be reasonable in terms of computational cost, especially when the flow domain is sufficiently long, and a large number of grid cells...

Impact of maltene and asphaltene fraction on mechanical behavior and microstructure of bitumen

As a widely accepted concept, bitumen consists of four fractions that can be distinguished by their polarity. Highly polar asphaltene micelles are dispersed in a viscous phase of saturates, aromatics and resins (maltene phase). Different concentrations of asphaltenes in the bitumen result in a range of mechanical response properties. In an...

Breakup of polystyrene particles in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow: Vallidation of a DNS model for asphaltene agglomeration

The study of polystyrene particles in Talor-Couette flow for the vallidation of a DNS code for asphaltene agglomeration