Low-temperature oxidation of oil components in an air injection process for improved oil recovery

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4299-4304

  Niu, Baolun ^a   Ren, Shaoran ^a   Liu, Yinhua ^a   Wang, Dezhi ^a   Tang, Lingzhi ^a   Chen, Bailian ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR INJECTION; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; HEAVY OIL; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT OIL; LIGHT OIL RESERVOIRS; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION; OIL COMPONENTS; OIL COMPOSITION; OIL COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION ACTIVITIES; PURE OIL; REACTION ACTIVITY; RESERVOIR PARAMETERS; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; RESIDENCE TIME; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; WATER SATURATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; FLUE GASES; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; OXIDATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REACTION RATES; TEMPERATURE; WATER INJECTION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 80054950416     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef200891u     Document Type: Article

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