Heat-Transfer Analogy for Wax Deposition from Paraffinic Mixtures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 791-803

  Bidmus, Hamid O ^a   Mehrotra, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DEPOSITION; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; PARAFFINS;

WAX DEPOSITION;

HEAT TRANSFER;

DODECANE; PARAFFIN; WAX;

HEAT TRANSFER; PARAFFIN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAX;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUID; PHASE TRANSITION; SHEAR RATE; SOLID; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WET DEPOSITION;

EID: 0942277240     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030573v     Document Type: Article

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