Estimation of the solvent power of crude oil from density and viscosity measurements

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9307-9315

  Correra, Sebastiano ^a   Merlini, Massimo ^a   Di Lullo, Alberto ^a   Merino Garcia, Daniel ^b  

^a ENI S P A   (Italy)

^b Consultant ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SOLVENTS; VISCOSITY;

ASPHALTENE; ASPHALTENE INSTABILITY; FLOW ASSURANCE; SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

CRUDE OIL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOLVENT; VISCOSITY;

EID: 29144523117     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0507272     Document Type: Article

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