Investigation of crude oil emulsion stability

Nowadays, crude oil production facing costly and serious problem due to produce crude oil along with water in form of an emulsion. Emulsion defined as mixture of two immiscible liquid such as oil and water by an emulsifier agent which are needed to be separated or treated by using separator tank and demulsfier to meet crude oil specification for buyer. Select and apply different demusfier in order to separate or treat a crude oil emulsion is costly operation also lead to waste a lots of time and required to specify emulsion stability to select specific demulsifiers to separate emulsions. The objective of this project is to evaluate the stability of synthetic water in oil emulsions. As well as to develop mathematical correlations to predict or determine emulsion stability.