Thermal visbreaking of heavy oil from the Nigerian tar sand

Fuel

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1489-1496

  Omole, O ^a   Olieh, M N ^a   Osinowo, T ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; PETROLEUM TAR; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

VISBREAKING;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 0032586560     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-2361(99)00023-X     Document Type: Article

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