Thermodynamic model of petroleum fluids containing polydisperse asphaltene aggregates

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3242-3251

  Victorov, Alexey I ^a   Smirnova, Natalia A ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ELASTIC MODULI; FLOCCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAFFIN PROBLEMS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYMERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMICS;

ASPHALTENES;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 0032140770     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie970869z     Document Type: Article

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