1. Department of Petroleum Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2. Department of Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS), Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
3. Chemical Engineering Postgraduate Program, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Rio Grande do Norte state (RN), Brazil
4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of the Semiarid (UFERSA), Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
5. Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
6. Laboratoire de Génie Chimique (UMR CNRS 5503), INPT, UPS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, cedex 4, France