Characterisation of adsorbed Athabasca asphaltene films at solvent-water interfaces using a langmuir interfacial trough

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1160-1174

  Li, Yan Zhang ^a   Xu, Zhenghe ^a   Masliyah, Jacob H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDENSATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ISOTHERMS; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOLAYERS; PARAFFINS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE; WATER;

ASPHALTENES; LANGMUIR INTERFACIAL TROUGH; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT (LB) FILMS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

ASPHALT;

HEPTANE; PETROLEUM; SOLVENT; TOLUENE; WATER;

FILM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FRACTIONATION; HYSTERESIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTHERM; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRESSURE;

EID: 14344254358     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049913i     Document Type: Article

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