Effect of the particle size on asphaltene adsorption and catalytic oxidation onto alumina particles

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3961-3965

  Nassar, Nashaat N ^a   Hassan, Azfar ^a   Pereira Almao, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION DATA; ALUMINA PARTICLES; ASPHALTENE ADSORPTION; BATCH ADSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; FREUNDLICH MODELS; HEAVY HYDROCARBONS; HEAVY OIL; LANGMUIR AND FREUNDLICH ISOTHERM MODELS; LANGMUIR MODELS; NANO-ALUMINA; SURFACE ACIDITY; SURFACE AREA; TEXTURAL PROPERTIES;

ADSORPTION; ALUMINA; ASPHALTENES; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DYES; HYDROCARBONS; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; TOLUENE;

CATALYTIC OXIDATION;

EID: 80052903854     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef2008387     Document Type: Article

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