Measurement and modeling of asphaltene precipitation from crude oil blends

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3971-3980

  Tharanivasan, Asok Kumar ^a   Svrcek, William Y ^a   Yarranton, Harvey W ^a   Taylor, Shawn D ^b   Merino Garcia, Daniel ^c   Rahimi, Parviz M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (Canada)

^c REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL CENTRE FOR UPGRADING TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION NUMBERS; ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION; AVERAGE ABSOLUTE DEVIATION; CRUDE OIL; FITTING PARAMETERS; GAMMA FUNCTION; LIQUID LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM; MASS FRACTION; MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION; N-ALKANES; N-HEPTANES; REGULAR SOLUTION MODEL; SELF-ASSOCIATIONS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; GAS OILS; HEPTANE; LIQUIDS; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; RESINS; TOLUENE;

ASPHALTENES;

EID: 69549086961     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef900150p     Document Type: Article

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