Yield behavior of waxy crude gel: Effect of isothermal structure development before prior applied stress

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 10977-10982

  Jia, Banglong ^a   Zhang, Jinjun ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING TIME; APPLIED STRESS; CONSTANT STRESS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; COOLING RATES; CRITICAL STRAINS; GEL STRUCTURES; GELATION TEMPERATURE; ISOTHERMAL AGING; LOWER STRESS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SHEAR EFFECT; STATIC YIELD; STRUCTURE DEGRADATION; STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; STRUCTURE STRENGTH; SUBSEQUENT COOLING; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL HISTORY; WAX APPEARANCE TEMPERATURE; WAXY CRUDE; WAXY CRUDE OIL; YIELD BEHAVIORS; YIELD STRESS VALUE;

COOLING; CRUDE OIL; DEGRADATION; GELATION; ISOTHERMS; YIELD STRESS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84865471850     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie301047g     Document Type: Article

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