Journal article
Emulsion inhibiting components in crude oils
Energy & Fuels, Vol.22(2), pp.1093-1099
2008
Abstract
We fractionated a series of West African and West Australian crude oils into the four standard solubility classes: saturates, aromatics, resins, and asphaltenes (SARA). The asphaltene fraction was then separated further into classes we have called binding resins (BR) and residual asphaltenes (RA) using a solvent of near-boiling heptane. The ratio ≡ BR/RA correlates strongly with the tightness of water-in-oil emulsions that these oils formed either in the field or the laboratory. Crucially, only the oil with > 1 did not form a stable emulsion and, for the oils which did, the smaller the value of , the tighter the observed emulsion in terms of its longevity and separation characteristics. Two-dimensional GC-MS was used to analyze the resin and binding resin fractions, which lead to the preliminary identification of the main components.
Details
- Title
- Emulsion inhibiting components in crude oils
- Authors/Creators
- B.F. Graham (Author/Creator) - School of Mechanical and Chemical EngineeringE.F. May (Author/Creator) - School of Mechanical and Chemical EngineeringR.D. Trengove (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Energy & Fuels, Vol.22(2), pp.1093-1099
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Identifiers
- 991005542220807891
- Copyright
- 2008 American Chemical Society
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Separation Science and Metabolomics Laboratory
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
- 8 Earth Sciences
- 8.140 Water Resources
- 8.140.1260 Asphaltenes
- Web Of Science research areas
- Energy & Fuels
- Engineering, Chemical
- ESI research areas
- Engineering