Monitoring of asphaltene precipitation: Experimental and modeling study

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 384-395

  Nakhli, Hassan ^a,b   Alizadeh, Ahmad ^a,b   Moqadam, Mohsen Sadeqi ^a,b   Afshari, Sajjad ^a,b   Kharrat, Riyaz ^a,c   Ghazanfari, M H ^c,d  

^a PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Tehran Petroleum Research Center   (Iran)

^d SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asphaltene precipitation; Fractal aggregation; High pressure high temperature conditions; Molecular weight distribution; Polydisperse thermodynamic modeling

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENE PHASE; ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION; ENRICHED GAS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLORY-HUGGINS; FRACTAL AGGREGATION; GAS INJECTION; HEAVY OIL; HIGH PRESSURE HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSTABILITY PROBLEMS; LIGHT OIL; LIVE OIL; MODELING STUDIES; POLYDISPERSES; PRESSURE CHANGE; PRESSURE DEPLETION; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESIN CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; THERMODYNAMIC SOLUBILITY;

ASPHALTENES; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FRACTALS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYDISPERSITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

ASPHALTENE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAVY OIL; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MODELING; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRESSURE EFFECT; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80052521509     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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