Application of the One-Third rule in hydrocarbon and crude oil systems

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 103-108

  Vargas, Francisco M ^a   Chapman, Walter G ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Mass density; Physical property estimation; Refractive index; Solubility parameter

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL SYSTEM; DIFFUSIVITIES; DISPERSION INTERACTION; ELECTRONIC-POLARIZABILITY; EQUATION OF STATE; HEAT CAPACITIES; HYDROCARBON MOLECULES; HYDROCARBON SYSTEMS; LORENTZ; LORENZ EQUATION; MASS DENSITIES; MASS DENSITY; MOLAR VOLUMES; SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION;

CRUDE OIL; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ESTIMATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MOLECULES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TERNARY SYSTEMS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 75849138522     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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