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Jean-Louis Salager

Jean-Louis Salager

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Chemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
12204
World Ranking
9741
National Ranking
1

Overview

Jean-Louis Salager is affiliated with the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and engineering. Their research primarily focuses on surfactants, colloidal systems, and petroleum-related processes.

The main fields of study covered by their research include:

  • Chemistry
  • Engineering

Within these broader fields, specific subfields addressed are:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Materials Chemistry

The key topics in their work span:

  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Petroleum Processing and Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Pickering Emulsions and Particle Stabilization
  • Proteins in Food Systems
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods

Jean-Louis Salager has published in several journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Journal of Surfactants and Detergents
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Colloids and Interfaces
  • Proceedings of 2022 AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo
  • Preprints.org

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jean-Louis Salager include:

  • How to Use the Normalized Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Deviation (HLDN) Concept for the Formulation of Equilibrated and Emulsified Surfactant-Oil-Water Systems for Cosmetics and Pharmaceutical Products (2020, Cosmetics)
  • Formulation Improvements in the Applications of Surfactant-Oil-Water Systems Using the HLDN Approach with Extended Surfactant Structure (2021, Molecules)
  • Formulation in Surfactant Systems: From-Winsor-to-HLDN (2022, Encyclopedia)
  • A Normalized Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Deviation Expression HLDN Is Necessary to Avoid Confusion Close to the Optimum Formulation of Surfactant-Oil-Water Systems (2021, Journal of Surfactants and Detergents)
  • Fundamental Basis for Action of a Chemical Demulsifier Revisited after 30 Years: HLDN as the Primary Criterion for Water-in-Crude Oil Emulsion Breaking (2022, Energy & Fuels)

The researcher collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Ronald Márquez
  • Ana Forgiarini
  • Johnny Bullón
  • Miguel Rondón
  • Alain Graciaa

Best Publications

  • Determination of aluminum by electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy in lubricating oils emulsified in a sequential injection analysis system.

    José L Burguera;Marcela Burguera;Raquel E Antón;Jean-Louis Salager

  • Optimum Formulation of Surfactant/Water/Oil Systems for Minimum Interfacial Tension or Phase Behavior

    J.L. Salager;J.C. Morgan;R.S. Schechter;W.H. Wade

  • A correlation for phase behavior of nonionic surfactants

    M Bourrel;J.L Salager;R.S Schechter;W.H Wade

  • Enhancing solubilization in microemulsions—State of the art and current trends

    Jean-Louis Salager;Raquel E. Antón;David A. Sabatini;Jeffrey H. Harwell

  • Partitioning of ethoxylated octylphenol surfactants in microemulsion-oil-water systems: influence of temperature and relation between partitioning coefficient and physicochemical formulation

    Jean-Louis Salager, ,†;Nelson Marquez;and Alain Graciaa;Jean Lachaise

  • Mixing Rules for Optimum Phase-Behavior Formulations of Surfactant/Oil/Water Systems

    J.L. Salager;M. Bourrel;R.S. Schechter;W.H. Wade

  • How to Attain Ultralow Interfacial Tension and Three-Phase Behavior with Surfactant Formulation for Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Review. Part 1. Optimum Formulation for Simple Surfactant-Oil-Water Ternary Systems

    Jean-Louis Salager;Ana M. Forgiarini;Johnny Bullón

  • Using emulsion inversion in industrial processes

    Jean-Louis Salager;Ana Forgiarini;Laura Márquez;Alejandro Peña

  • Interfacial Tension and Phase Behavior of Surfactant Systems

    W.H. Wade;James C. Morgan;R.S. Schechter;J.K. Jacobson

  • Surface Chemistry and Gas Hydrates in Flow Assurance

    Luis E. Zerpa;Jean-Louis Salager;Carolyn A. Koh;E. Dendy Sloan

  • Solubilization of polar oils with extended surfactants

    Matilde Miñana-Perez;Alain Graciaa;Jean Lachaise;Jean-Louis Salager

  • How to Attain an Ultralow Interfacial Tension and a Three-Phase Behavior with a Surfactant Formulation for Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Review. Part 2. Performance Improvement Trends from Winsor’s Premise to Currently Proposed Inter- and Intra-Molecular Mixtures

    Jean-Louis Salager;Ana M. Forgiarini;Laura Márquez;Lisbeth Manchego

  • Breaking of Water-in-Crude Oil Emulsions. 1. Physicochemical Phenomenology of Demulsifier Action

    Miguel Rondon;Patrick Bouriat;Jean Lachaise;Jean-Louis Salager

  • SORFACTANT-OIL-WATER SYSTEMS NEAR THE AFFINITY INVERSION Part III: THE TWO KINDS OF EMULSION INVERSION

    J. L. Salager;M. Miñana-Pérez;M. Pérez-Sánchez;M. Ramfrez-Gouveia

  • Current Phenomenological Know-How and Modeling of Emulsion Inversion

    Jean-Louis Salager;Laura Márquez;Alejandro A. Peña;Miguel Rondón

  • Heavy Oil−Water Interfacial Properties and Emulsion Stability: Influence of Dilution

    Gabriela Alvarez;Sandrine Poteau;Jean-François Argillier;Dominique Langevin

  • SURFACTANT-OIL-WATER SYSTEMS NEAR THE AFFINITY INVERSION PART I: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EQUILIBRIUM PHASE BEHAVIOR AND EMULSION TYPE AND STABILITY

    J. L. Salager;I. Loaiza-Maldonado;M. Minana-Perez;F. Silva

  • Properties of Resins Extracted from Boscan Crude Oil and Their Effect on the Stability of Asphaltenes in Boscan and Hamaca Crude Oils

    Norman F. Carnahan;Jean-Louis Salager;and Raquel Antón;Antonio Dávila

  • The EACN scale for oil classification revisited thanks to fish diagrams.

    S. Queste;J.L. Salager;R. Strey;J.M. Aubry

  • Breaking of Water-in-Crude-Oil Emulsions. 2. Influence of Asphaltene Concentration and Diluent Nature on Demulsifier Action†

    Miguel Rondón;Juan Carlos Pereira;Patrick Bouriat;Alain Graciaa

  • Improving solubilization in microemulsions with additives. 2. Long chain alcohols as lipophilic linkers

    A. Graciaa;J. Lachaise;C. Cucuphat;M. Bourrel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Marie Aubry
Jean-Marie Aubry École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille
Dominique Langevin
Dominique Langevin University of Paris-Saclay
Jeffrey H. Harwell
Jeffrey H. Harwell University of Oklahoma
Amadeu K. Sum
Amadeu K. Sum Colorado School of Mines
Reinhard Strey
Reinhard Strey University of Cologne
David A. Sabatini
David A. Sabatini University of Oklahoma
Carolyn A. Koh
Carolyn A. Koh Colorado School of Mines
E. Dendy Sloan
E. Dendy Sloan Colorado School of Mines

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