Determination of CO2 minimum miscibility pressure from measured and predicted equilibrium interfacial tensions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 8918-8925

  Nobakht, Morteza ^a   Moghadam, Samane ^a   Gu, Yongan ^b  

^a FEKETE ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; DROPS; FORECASTING; SOLUBILITY; ULSI CIRCUITS;

AXISYMMETRIC DROP SHAPE ANALYSES; CONSTANT TEMPERATURES; CRUDE OILS; EQUILIBRIUM INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; EQUILIBRIUM PRESSURES; LINEAR GRADIENTS; MINIMUM MISCIBILITY PRESSURES; PENDANT DROPS; PREDICTION MODELS; RESERVOIR PRESSURES; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; THRESHOLD PRESSURES; VANISHING INTERFACIAL TENSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 57249097808     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800358g     Document Type: Article

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