A new scaling equation for modeling of asphaltene precipitation

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition 2003, NAICE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Ashoori, S ^a,b   Jamialahmadi, M ^a,b   Muller Steinhagen H ^c   Ahmadi, K ^a  

^a Petroleum University of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CRUDE OIL; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ASPHALTENE PRECIPITATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID PHASE COMPOSITIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; PERMEABILITY IMPAIRMENTS; RESERVOIR ROCK; SCALING EQUATIONS; SIMPLE MODELING;

ASPHALTENES;

EID: 85045833636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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