Comparative study of CO2 and N2 foams in porous media at low and high pressure-temperatures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4542-4552

  Farajzadeh, Rouhi ^a,b   Andrianov, Alexey ^b   Bruining, Hans ^a   Zitha, Pacelli L J ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ENTRANCE EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOAMING BEHAVIOR; GAS VELOCITY; GRANULAR POROUS MEDIA; HIGH PRESSURE; LOWER PRESSURES; POROUS MEDIA; SUB-CRITICAL CONDITION; SUPERCRITICAL CONDITION; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOMERS; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TOMOGRAPHY;

GASES;

EID: 65649101959     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801760u     Document Type: Article

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