Rheological properties of heavy & light crude oil mixtures for improving flowability

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 122-128

  Ghannam, Mamdouh T ^a   Hasan, Shadi W ^b   Abu Jdayil, Basim ^a   Esmail, Nabil ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heavy crude oil; Loss modulus; Storage modulus; Thixotropy; Viscosity; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MODULUS; CRUDE OIL MIXTURES; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOWABILITY; HEAVY CRUDE OIL; HEAVY CRUDES; LOSS MODULI; LOSS MODULUS; NON-NEWTONIAN; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHEAR-THINNING BEHAVIOR; THIXOTROPIC BEHAVIOR; THIXOTROPY; TRANSIENT FLOW BEHAVIOR; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS; VISCOSITY REDUCTION; VISCOUS LIQUIDS;

COLLOIDS; ELASTIC MODULI; FLOW FIELDS; MIXTURES; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

CRUDE OIL;

CRUDE OIL; HEAVY OIL; RHEOLOGY; STEADY FLOW; THIXOTROPY; TRANSIENT FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 84855884076     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2011.12.024     Document Type: Article

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