Evaluation of co-volume mixing rules for bitumen liquid density and bubble pressure estimation

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-100

  McFarlane, Richard A ^a   Gray, Murray R ^b   Shaw, John M ^b  

^a ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bitumen; Co volume mixing rule; Group contribution; VLE predictions

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC MIXTURES; BUBBLE POINT PRESSURE; BUBBLE POINTS; BUBBLE PRESSURE; CLASSICAL MIXING; COMBINING RULES; CRITICAL PROPERTIES; CUBIC EQUATION OF STATE; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENGINEERING CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROUP CONTRIBUTIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SIMULATED DISTILLATIONS; LIQUID DENSITY; LIQUID PHASE; MIXING RULES; MOLECULAR REPRESENTATIONS; NEGATIVE VALUES; NORMAL BOILING POINTS; PENG-ROBINSON; PURE COMPONENTS; PURE FLUIDS AND MIXTURES; SATURATED LIQUID DENSITIES; VACUUM TOWERS;

BINARY MIXTURES; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; DISTILLATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ETHANE; FORECASTING; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUIDS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

MIXING;

EID: 77951108367     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2010.02.032     Document Type: Article

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