The importance of asphaltene content in petroleum II-multi-peak viscosity correlations

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 920-924

  Evdokimov, I N ^a  

^a GUBKIN RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF OIL AND GAS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Asphaltenes; Correlations; Crude oils; Phase boundaries; Viscosity asphaltene; Viscosity density

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENE CONTENT; COMMON KNOWLEDGE; CORRELATIONS; CRUDE OILS; DENSITY CORRELATION; MONOTONIC FUNCTIONS; OIL VISCOSITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PEAK VISCOSITIES; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SPECIFIC GRAVITY;

CRUDE OIL; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); VISCOSITY;

ASPHALTENES;

EID: 77951592310     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916460902937018     Document Type: Article

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