COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NORMAL VISBREAKING PROCESS AND THE THERMAL FIXED-BED PROCESS APPLIED ON COLOMBIAN HEAVY OILS

The rise in heavy oil reserves, the scarceness of light oils, the demand for clean products and the increase in residual material or bottoms make it necessary to implement or adapt technologies to process heavy oils efficiently. To this end, the modification of the current visbreaking system has bee...

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Main Authors: Judith-Rocío Santa-Jaimes, Jairo-Javier López-Gómez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Colombiano del Petróleo (ICP) - ECOPETROL S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:CT&F Ciencia, Tecnología & Futuro
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-53832014000200005&lng=en&tlng=en