Theoretical model of thermal diffusion factors in multicomponent mixtures

AIChE Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 892-900

  Firoozabadi, Abbas ^a   Ghorayeb, Kassem ^a   Shukla, Keshawa ^a,b  

^a RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

PENG-ROBINSON EQUATIONS OF STATE;

BINARY MIXTURES;

HYDROCARBON;

MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MIXTURE; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033627527     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690460504     Document Type: Article

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