TY - GEN
T1 - Electrorheology improves transportation of crude oil
AU - Tang, Hong
AU - Huang, Ke
AU - Tao, R.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A system to simulate crude oil flow in pipeline is established in our lab. The system measures the crude oil flow rate with or without the electric field treatment. With this system, it is demonstrated that the crude oil flow rate is increased by about 20% after an electric field of 12000V/cm is applied in the direction parallel to the flow direction. The electric energy for this electric field treatment is very small and oil temperature is almost unchanged. The electrorheology induced thinning effect will have significant application in crude oil pipeline transportation.
AB - A system to simulate crude oil flow in pipeline is established in our lab. The system measures the crude oil flow rate with or without the electric field treatment. With this system, it is demonstrated that the crude oil flow rate is increased by about 20% after an electric field of 12000V/cm is applied in the direction parallel to the flow direction. The electric energy for this electric field treatment is very small and oil temperature is almost unchanged. The electrorheology induced thinning effect will have significant application in crude oil pipeline transportation.
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U2 - 10.1142/9789814340236_0006
DO - 10.1142/9789814340236_0006
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865642522
SN - 9814340227
SN - 9789814340229
T3 - Electro-Rheological Fluids and Magneto-Rheological Suspensions - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference
SP - 46
EP - 52
BT - Electro-Rheological Fluids and Magneto-Rheological Suspensions - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
T2 - 12th International Conference on Electrorheological Fluids and Magnetorheological Suspensions, ERMR 2010
Y2 - 16 August 2010 through 20 August 2010
ER -