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The Determination of Effective Diffusivity Coefficients in a Solvent Gas Heavy Oil System for Methane

E. Zamanian Department of Petroleum Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; Petroleum Research Center, Tehran, Iran
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M. Dadvar Department of Chemical Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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R. Kharrat Petroleum Research Center, Tehran, Iran; Department of Petroleum Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz, Iran
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M. H. Ghazanfari Petroleum Research Center, Tehran, Iran; Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Pages 2582-2593 | Received 15 Jul 2010, Accepted 20 Aug 2010, Published online: 15 Oct 2012

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