Modeling the aggregation of asphaltene nanoaggregates in crude oil-precipitant systems

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1585-1596

  Maqbool, Tabish ^a,b   Raha, Sasanka ^a   Hoepfner, Michael P ^a   Fogler, H Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENE AGGREGATES; ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; DISCRETIZATIONS; DRIVING FORCES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUNCTION OF TIME; MICROMETER SIZED PARTICLES; NANO-METER SCALE; NANOAGGREGATES; ONSET-TIME; PARTICLE VOLUME; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS;

ASPHALTENES; CENTRIFUGATION; CRUDE OIL; HEPTANE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 79955461598     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef1014132     Document Type: Article

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