Light-scattering study of petroleum asphaltene aggregation

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4028-4035

  Burya, Yevgeniy G ^a,b   Yudin, Igor K ^a,b,c   Dechabo, Victor A ^c   Kosov, Victor I ^c   Anisimov, Mikhail A ^d  

^a GUBKIN RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF OIL AND GAS   (Russian Federation)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c OIL AND GAS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DIFFUSION; INTERPOLATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

COLLOIDAL STRUCTURES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0000235436     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004028     Document Type: Article

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