Characterization of asphaltenes aggregation and fragmentation in a shear field

AIChE Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1645-1655

  Rahmani, Nazmul H G ^a   Masliyah, Jacob H ^a   Dabros, Tadeusz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPOSITION; POROSITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

FRAGMENTATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

ASPHALT; ASPHALTENE; PETROLEUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGREGATION; ASPHALTENE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SHEAR RATE; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0038824953     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690490705     Document Type: Article

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