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An experimental investigation on the deformation of alkali-surfactant-polymer droplet under AC electric field

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With the help of high-speed photography, the microscopic laws of alkali-surfactant-polymer (ASP) droplet deformation under high voltage alternating current (AC) electric field were studied. The influences of AC electric field intensity and frequency were investigated in detail. Moreover, the synergistic effect of alkali-surfactant-polymer on drop deformation was reported. Experimental results demonstrate that there is a power law relationship between the deformation of alkali-surfactant-polymer droplet and the electric field strength. And it could be inferred that ASP interactions should be responsible for the complex relationship between ASP droplet deformation and the AC electric field frequency.

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Acknowledgments

The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51274233, No. 51574273), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 16CX02001A), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2014EEM045).

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  1. College of Pipeline and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum, No. 66 Changjiang West Road, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China

    Limin He, Haipeng Yan, Xiaoming Luo, Jing Wang, Xin Huang, Juhang Cao & Donghai Yang

  2. Qingdao Key Laboratory of Circle Sea Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Technology, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China

    Limin He

  3. Shandong Provincial key laboratory of Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Safety, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoming Luo

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He, L., Yan, H., Luo, X. et al. An experimental investigation on the deformation of alkali-surfactant-polymer droplet under AC electric field. Colloid Polym Sci 294, 1651–1658 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-016-3933-4

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