Sub-surface precipitation of salts in supercritical seawater

Basin Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 221-230

  Hovland, Martin ^a   Kuznetsova, Tatyana ^b   Rueslåtten, Håkon ^c   Kvamme, Bjørn ^b   Johnsen, Hans Konrad ^a   Fladmark, Gunnar E ^b   Hebach, Andreas ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Numerical Rocks AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LABORATORY METHOD; PHASE TRANSITION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEA SALT; SEAWATER;

EID: 33745029763     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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