Measurement and prediction of the phase behavior of wax-solvent mixtures: Significance of the wax disappearance temperature

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3451-3461

  Bhat, Nitin V ^a   Mehrotra, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; COOLING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEATING; MIXTURES;

WAX DISAPPEARANCE TEMPERATURE (WDT); WAX SOLUBILITY;

WAXES;

PARAFFIN; SOLVENT;

TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 2942731348     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0400144     Document Type: Article

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