Thermophysical Properties of Heavy Petroleum Fluids

lt;p>Bernardo Carreón-Calderón holds M. Sc. and Dr. Eng. degrees in chemical engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), respectively. He is the author of several articles about Phase Transitions, Hydrocarbon Thermodynamics, and Molecular Diffusion. He has worked for the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP) on Oilfield Processing and Flow Assurance during last 18 years. He is also a Transport Phenomena, Separation Processes and Thermodynamics professor for National Autonomous University of Mexico during 21 years. Currently, he holds the position of full-time researcher in the Reservoir Engineering Department.

Verónica Uribe-Vargas holds Master and Doctor Degrees in chemical engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has worked for the Mexican Institute of Petroleum on Refining Processes and Flow Assurance and Reservoir Engineering during last 22 years. She is the author of several articles about Phase Equilibria and Hydrocarbon Thermodynamics. She has been a postgraduate staff member in the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP) as well. Currently, she holds the position of full-time researcher in the Reservoir Engineering Department.

Juan Pablo Aguayo has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in chemical engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and PhD from the University of Wales, Swansea (now Swansea University). Formerly he was a lecturer at universities La Salle, Simón Bolívar, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala and currently lectures for undergraduate and graduate courses at UNAM, in subjects such as Energy Transfer, Transport Phenomena, Rheology and Applied Mathematics. He has worked at the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP) as a process engineer and later as a postdoctorate. Since October 2013, he has been a researcher at Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología (ICAT-UNAM).

Introduction.- Thermodynamic Properties.- Transport Properties.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.