A thermodynamic model for wax deposition phenomena

Fuel

Volumn 86, Issue 10-11, 2007, Pages 1402-1408

  Dalirsefat, Reza ^a   Feyzi, Farzaneh ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Equation of state; Wax appearance temperature; Wax deposition

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMODYNAMICS;

THERMODYNAMIC MODELS; TRANSPORTATION PIPELINES; WAX APPEARANCE TEMPERATURE; WAX DEPOSITION;

WAXES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34147151615     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2006.11.034     Document Type: Article

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