Dehydration efficiency of AC electrical fields on water-in-model-oil emulsions

The effect of several factors has been studied in order to determine their influence on the electrostatic dehydration process of water-in-model-oil emulsions. Not only application time, waveform, strength and frequency of the applied electric field, but also temperature were all found to play a non-negligible role in the process. The results obtained have been correlated to observed phase separation measured with a Turbiscan Lab instrument.