Online optical monitoring of asphaltene aggregation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-84

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; HEPTANE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KINETIC THEORY; MONITORING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOLVENTS;

PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; PHOTOMERIC DISPERSION ANALYZER;

ASPHALT;

ASPHALT; ASPHALTENE; HEPTANE; MALTENE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MONITORING;

AGGREGATION KINETICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; FLOCCULATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ONLINE ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOMETRY DISPERSION ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; STEADY STATE; STIRRED REACTOR;

EID: 11144244973     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049689x     Document Type: Article

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