Morphological evolution of thick wax deposits during aging

AIChE Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 6-18

  Singh, Probjot ^a   Venkatesan, Ramachandran ^b   Scott Fogler, H ^a   Nagarajan, N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MOBIL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DIFFUSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; PETROLEUM PIPELINES;

WAX DEPOSITION;

WAXES;

PETROLEUM; WAX;

AGING; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; OIL INDUSTRY; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PIPELINE; PRECIPITATION; STORAGE; THICKNESS;

EID: 0035132906     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690470103     Document Type: Article

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