Emulsion Characterization Study for Improved Bilgewater Treatment and Management

Abstract

The primary objective of this project was to advance the current understanding of emulsion science for chemically stable emulsions formed in Armed Forces applications. While commercially available equipment can be implemented for bilge water emulsion mitigation, there is little knowledge surrounding the physical, chemical and thermodynamic properties of the emulsions created in an Armed Forces vessel environment. Thus, targeted treatment and management of these fluids become conjecture and calls for a deliberate and thorough understanding of fundamental emulsion stability properties. This project focuses on three segments: (1) Scoping Study for Review of Armed Forces Vessels Oil-in-Water Emulsions, (2) Characterization of Prepared and Extracted Bilgewater Emulsions, and (3) Data Analysis, Interpretation and Publication.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1191529

Entities

People

  • Danielle M Paynter
  • Jared Church
  • Jeffrey G Lundin
  • Woo H. Lee

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alkanes
  • Chemical Properties
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Measurement
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Performance Tests
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Theoretical Analysis.