Crystalline Behavior of Paraffin Wax
Paraffin wax deposition has long been a vexing problem in industry. Especially, in offshore oil production, paraffin wax deposits and clogs pipes and containers because of low temperature, causing severe economic loss.
Jun Zhang +11 more
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Thermal Conductivity Enhancement of Iraqi Origin Paraffin Wax by Nano-Alumina
Paraffin wax is utilized for the heat storage applications taking advantage from the high stored latent heat during the phase change (from solid to fluid) period.
Miqdam T. Chaichan +2 more
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Stabilization of an Aqueous Bio-Based Wax Nano-Emulsion through Encapsulation
The emulsification of biowaxes in an aqueous environment is important to broaden their application range and make them suitable for incorporation in water-based systems.
Pieter Samyn, Vibhore K. Rastogi
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Sustainable Approach for Paraffin Wax Removal Using CO2 Switchable Solvents
In this work, a sustainable approach for paraffin wax removal by using CO2 switchable-hydrophilicity solvents (SHSs) is developed, where paraffin wax exhibits better solubility in SHSs and can be simply separated by introducing CO2. Here, SHSs exhibit an
Na Wang (193263) +9 more
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A novel multilayer composite structure based battery thermal management system
The battery thermal management system (BTMS) utilizing phase change materials (PCM) has shown promising performance in high heat flux heat dissipation. However, conventional PCM systems do not fully exploit the latent thermal properties of paraffin wax ...
Chuanzhi Kang +4 more
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The isolation of nucleic acids from fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues-which methods are useful when? [PDF]
Museums and pathology collections around the world represent an archive of genetic material to study populations and diseases. For preservation purposes, a large portion of these collections has been fixed in formalin-containing solutions, a treatment ...
Haselkorn, Tamara +35 more
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HYDRO-DE-AROMATIZATION OF PARAFFIN WAX
Iraqi paraffin wax (1.0 wt% aromatic content and 4.4 wt% oil content, Basrah origin) was hydro treated over commercial Pt-Re/y-Al203 catalyst in order to study aromatic removal reaction (de-aromatization) kinetics.
Ammar S. Abbas, Suondos K. A. Barnoo
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Improvement of heat sink performance using paraffin/graphite/hydrogel phase change composite coating
Phase-change materials offer high latent heat and are widely used for energy storage applications. Paraffin wax is usually used as a phase-change material. However, its application in energy storage is restricted due to its low thermal conductivity.
Sreedevi Paramparambath +4 more
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Control of Paraffin Wax Deposit from Oil Pipelines Using Novel and Eco-friendly Nanomaterial Derived from Agro Waste [PDF]
This research tackles paraffin wax build up in oil pipelines using eco-friendly silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) prepared from Omani agricultural waste by green synthesis technique.
Nabhani Aya Al +6 more
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Analysis of Thermal and Insulation Performance of Double Glazed Window Doped With Paraffin Wax [PDF]
In this paper, a numerical investigation has been performed to study the effect of varying the thermal properties of the paraffin wax on the performance of a double glazed window doped with it during the summer climate of Baghdad (33.3 °N, 44.4 °E ...
Jalal Jalil, Salih Salih
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