Asphaltenes from four different crude oils (Arab Heavy, B6, Canadon Seco, and Hondo) were fractionated in mixtures of heptane and toluene and analyzed chemically, by vapor pressure osmometry (VPO), and by small angle neutron scattering (SANS). Solubility profiles of the asphaltenes and their subfractions indicated strong cooperative asphaltene interactions of a particular subfraction that is po...

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy using a gold substrate and excitation at 514 nm can detect sub parts per million quantities of asphaltene and thereby petroleum. This simple format and sensitivity make it transformative for applications including sample triage, flow assurance, environmental protection and analysis of unique one of a kind materials.

Solvent exchange is a controlled process for dilution-induced phase separation. This work utilizes the solvent method to reveal effect of mixing dynamics on asphaltene precipitation under 20 different conditions using model system n-heptane and in toluene. The external between solution paraffinic strictly controlled. We employed high-spatial-resolution total internal reflection fluorescence mic...

This work presents a systematic study of asphaltene pre-aggregation phenomena in the absence and presence ionic liquids (ILs) from family 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium by molecular dynamics simulations. The effects alkyl chain length cation (studying ILs with chains between C4 C10) dimension anion (testing chloride bromide) on aggregation behavior asphaltenes have been studied. To correlate resul...

the organic deposition particularly asphaltenes has many detrimental effects on the oil industries, such as plugging in pipelines, wellbore and facilities and subsequently, considerable reduction in well productivity.asphaltenes are the most polar fractions, which they have been dispersed as colloidal clusters in crude oil. the accumulation of these clusters lead to the flocculation of colloids...

Abstract Bitumen contains approximately 5 wt% sulfur so it must be removed before being used as fuel. Herein, we performed oxidative desulfurization of bitumen at room temperature using n-pentane and ultrasound to reduce viscosity mix the bitumen-dissolved aqueous reaction solution physically. The states in ratio were investigated confirm process. Additionally, developed a novel method for sepa...

As a physiochemical property, asphaltenes are known to be one the most surface active compounds in crude oil. Due to such property, their behavior is most probably influenced by fluid-fluid interactions at the contact surface (interface). Potentially and naturally, in most cases, water is in contact with crude oil and is co-produced with it as well. Considering that asphaltene molecules are pol...