Demulsifying super-heavy crude oil with bifunctionalized block copolymers

Fuel

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 356-363

  Cendejas, Gabriel ^a   Arreguín, Felipe ^a   Castro, Laura V ^a,b   Flores, Eugenio A ^a   Vazquez, Flavio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; Crude oil; Demulsifiers

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; BLOCK POLYPROPYLENE; DEHYDRATING AGENTS; DEMULSIFIERS; DEMULSIFYING AGENTS; ETHYLENE OXIDES; FUNCTIONALIZATION PROCESS; FUNCTIONALIZED; HEAVY CRUDE OIL; HIGH VISCOSITIES; POLYMERIC CHAIN; SECONDARY AMINES; WATER DROPLETS; WATER REMOVAL; WATER SEPARATION; WEIGHT-AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BOTTLES; DEHYDRATION; DEMULSIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYPROPYLENE OXIDES; POLYPROPYLENES;

CRUDE OIL;

EID: 84870491243     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.08.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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