Performance-based designing of wax crystal growth inhibitors

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3930-3938

  Soni, Hemant P ^a   Kiranbala, ^a   Bharambe, D P ^a  

^a M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COLLOIDS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GELATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ASPHALTENE CONTENTS; CRUDE OILS; DIESTERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; RHEOLOGICAL ANALYSES; RHEOLOGY MODIFIERS; STRUCTURE OF THE POLYMERS; SUSPENSION POLYMERIZATIONS; WAX CRYSTALS;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 57849090202     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef8002763     Document Type: Article

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