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The subject of the invention is a method and a device for monitoring the parameters of the aqueous phase in water-in-oil emulsion wherein oil is in continuous phase and water is in dispersion phase in the form of droplets, applicable for the optimisation of the water-in-oil emulsion separation process. The method according to the invention consists in exposing the examined emulsion flowing through a test section of a pipe to an electromagnetic field in a microwave resonator and measuring the dielectric loss of the emulsion in one of the measuring systems and a second test section of the pipe is selected with the water-in-oil emulsion flowing through the pipe, which is exposed to an electromagnetic field of a frequency markedly lower than the microwave radiation frequency, and the dielectric loss of the emulsion is measured in the second measuring system. The results of the measurements are transmitted to a computer control device wherein the results of the measurements obtained simultaneously in both measuring systems are compared. The device according to the invention is characterised by having two resonant measuring systems /A/ and /B/ coupled with one another by means of a computer control device /C/, and one of the resonant measuring systems /A/ has an electromagnetic radiation generator /2/ of microwave frequencies, while die other resonant measuring system /B/ has an electromagnetic radiation generator /7/ of a frequency markedly lower than the microwave radiation frequency.

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