Abdulbari, Hayder A. and Ainoon, Shabirin and Nour, A. H. (2014) Bio-polymers for Improving Liquid Flow in Pipelines - A Review and Future Work Opportunities. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 20 (4). pp. 1157-1170. ISSN 1226-086X. (Published)
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Abstract
Several decades following Tom's discoveries on polymeric drag reducing agents (DRA) continue to see research efforts to produce robust and shear-stable DRA. Most efforts revolve around established artificial polymers, but questions have been raised recently about their environmental impact and safety. As such, a large number of researchers are looking into natural materials especially bio-polymers as substitutes. Several bio-polymers are found to exhibit drag reducing capabilities in aqueous media. All these factors suggest that bio-polymers would make a suitable alternative to artificial DRAs. This paper aims to present several works to-date on bio-polymer DRAs, and expose new possibilities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Drag reduction; Pipelines; Turbulence; Polymers |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Centre of Excellence: Centre of Excellence for Advanced Research in Fluid Flow Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Mrs. Neng Sury Sulaiman |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2015 03:56 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2018 01:42 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6152 |
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