Liquid-phase behavior during the cracking of asphaltenes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 4101-4108

  Rahmani, Samina ^a   McCaffrey, William ^a   Elliott, Janet A W ^a   Gray, Murray R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COKE MANUFACTURE; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); ENTROPY; NITROGEN; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLVENTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

PHASE INVERSION;

ASPHALT;

ASPHALT; COKE; DILUENT; MALTENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; OIL; POLYMER; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRACKING; DILUTION; DISPERSION; ENTROPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE INVERSION; PHASE SEPARATION; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLID; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0041971396     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020921d     Document Type: Article

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