Understanding the fluid phase behaviour of crude oil: Asphaltene precipitation

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 306, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-136

  Artola, Pierre Arnaud ^a   Pereira, Frances E ^a   Adjiman, Claire S ^a   Galindo, Amparo ^a   Müller, Erich A ^a   Jackson, George ^a   Haslam, Andrew J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asphaltene precipitation boundary; Crude oil bubble curve; Crude oil phase diagrams; Liquid liquid instability; Lumping; Modelling crude oil; Multicomponent mixtures; SAFT VR

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION; CRUDE-OIL BUBBLE CURVE; CRUDE-OIL PHASE DIAGRAMS; LIQUID-LIQUID INSTABILITY; LUMPING; MODELLING CRUDE OIL; MULTICOMPONENT MIXTURE; SAFT-VR;

ASPHALTENES; CRUDE OIL; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE SEPARATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

LIQUIDS;

EID: 79957662028     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2011.01.024     Document Type: Article

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