Design and Operation of Laboratory Combustion Cell for Air
Injection into Light Oil Reservoirs: Potential Application in
Sindh Field
Keywords: Air Injection, Oil Recovery, Light Oil, Combustion Cell and Oxidation
Kinetics.
Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology
Volume 30 , Issue 1
Abdul Haque Tunio , Hafeez-Ur-Rehman Memon , Shaheen Aziz ,
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