Publication date: 14 December 2018 Source:Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 191 Author(s): Mucong Zi, Daoyi Chen, Guozhong Wu Microsecond molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the methane hydrate formation on smooth and rough metal surface covered with water, light oil, and heavy oil with asphaltenes, respectively....

Publication date: 14 December 2018 Source:Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 191 Author(s): Haotong Wang, Fernando Hernández-Jiménez, Musango Lungu, Zhengliang Huang, Yao Yang, Jingdai Wang, Yongrong Yang In many industrial processes, electrostatic charges are inevitable and affect the hydrodynamic behavior and heat transfer ability...

Publication date: 14 December 2018 Source:Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 191 Author(s): Javier Cardona, Carla Ferreira, John McGinty, Andrew Hamilton, Okpeafoh S. Agimelen, Alison Cleary, Robert Atkinson, Craig Michie, Stephen Marshall, Yi-Chieh Chen, Jan Sefcik, Ivan Andonovic, Christos Tachtatzis Particle processing...

Publication date: 14 December 2018 Source:Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 191 Author(s): J. Ferreira, F. Castro, F. Rocha, S. Kuhn This work reports a cheap and easy-to-use droplet-based microfluidic platform for the study of protein crystallization, offering the possibility to characterize the protein phase behaviour, and the effect...

Publication date: 14 December 2018 Source:Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 191 Author(s): Jingjing Ji, Zheng Lu, Yu Lei, C. Heath Turner Direct propylene epoxidation is an important gas-phase reaction for the future industrial production of propylene oxide (PO). However, the mechanistic understanding of this reaction system is still...

Publication date: 14 December 2018 Source:Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 191 Author(s): Lixia Dong, Kaiwei Luo, Liang Zhao, Yuhao Zhang, Jinsen Gao, Tianzhen Hao, Chunming Xu Given the demand for clean gasoline with ultralow sulfur and olefin contents, reduced olefin content, which inevitably results in a large octane number...