A review of steam generation for in-situ oil sands projects

Geosystem Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 111-118

  Gwak, Kwan Woong ^a   Bae, Wisup ^a  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Drum boiler; Oil sand; OTSG; SAGD; Steam generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015798735     PISSN: 12269328     EISSN: 21663394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/12269328.2010.10541317     Document Type: Article

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