Heavy crude oil viscosity reduction and rheology for pipeline transportation

Fuel

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1095-1100

  Hasan, Shadi W ^a   Ghannam, Mamdouh T ^b   Esmail, Nabil ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Heavy crude oil; Oil water emulsion; Viscosity reduction; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL MIXTURES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLOW PROPERTIES; HEAVY CRUDE OIL; LIGHT OIL; O-LIGHT; OIL/WATER EMULSION; PIPELINE TRANSPORTATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHEAR RATES; VISCOSITY BEHAVIOR; VISCOSITY REDUCTION;

BLENDING; EMULSIFICATION; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; SHEAR DEFORMATION; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

CRUDE OIL;

EID: 77349098758     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.12.021     Document Type: Article

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