[pt] A motivação deste trabalho consiste no uso do four-roll mill para aumentar a separação de fases de emulsões água em óleo (A/O) presente no processamento primário da indústria de petróleo. A partir da conservação de massa e momento, a fase contínua foi modelada como escoamento incompressível, bi-dimensional e isotérmico. Simulações numéricas utilizando o método de elementos finitos foram implementadas para revelar a influência das diversas configurações de escoamento no comportamento mecânico do material. A partir dos resultados obtidos, a habitual forma de classificar o escoamento no four-roll mill de acordo com a literatura se demonstrou ineficiente. Este trabalho sugere classificações locais de escoamento a cada posição dependendo se a mesma está ocupada pela fase contínua ou dispersa da emulsão. O efeito da fase dispersa é descrito via pós-processamento. Microelementos no formato de vetores foram inseridos no domínio e investigou-se suas deformações e trajetórias. Consequentemente, analisou-se a deformação de gotas e a sua respectiva influência na instabilidade da emulsão. / [en] The motivation of this work consists in the use of four-roll mill in order to increase the phase separation of water-in-oil emulsions (W/O) present in the primary process of oil industry. With mass and momentum conservation, the continuous phase is modeled by an incompressible, bi-dimensional and isothermal flow. Numerical simulations employing the finite element method were implemented to reveal the influence of the several flow configurations in the material mechanical behavior. From the obtained results, the standard way of classifying the flow in the four-roll mill according to the literature was proved inefficient. This work suggests local flow classifications for each position depending if it is occupied by the continuous or dispersed phase. The effect of the dispersed phase was described by a post-processing scheme. Microelements in shape of vectors were inserted in the domain and their deformations and pathlines were investigated. Thus, the deformation of droplets and their respective influences in the emulsion instability were analyzed.

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The new generation of three roll mills is able to monitor occurring process loads while dispersion. This paper focuses on the interpretation of the gathered data to find criteria quantifying the dispersion state online. The aim is process time reduction. We used impedance spectroscopy to identify the dispersion state and correlated it with the occurring process loads. The dispersion process of a wide spectrum of carbon based nano particles, namely carbon black, single walled carbon nanotubes, multi walled carbon nanotubes, a few-layer graphene powder, electrochemically exfoliated graphite and a functionalized electrochemically exfoliated graphite was investigated. The filler content was varied along the material’s electrical percolation threshold. The criteria found led to a reduction of processing time and revealed the prevalent mechanisms during dispersion.

The new generation of three roll mills is able to monitor occurring process loads while dispersion. This paper focuses on the interpretation of the gathered data to find criteria quantifying the dispersion state online. The aim is process time reduction. We used impedance spectroscopy to identify the dispersion state and correlated it with the occurring process loads. The dispersion process of a wide spectrum of carbon based nano particles, namely carbon black, single walled carbon nanotubes, multi walled carbon nanotubes, a few-layer graphene powder, electrochemically exfoliated graphite and a functionalized electrochemically exfoliated graphite was investigated. The filler content was varied along the material’s electrical percolation threshold. The criteria found led to a reduction of processing time and revealed the prevalent mechanisms during dispersion.