The biomaterials have gained the attention for utilization as sustainable alternatives for petroleum-derived products due to the rapid depletion of petroleum resources and environmental issues. Chitosan is an economical, renewable and abundant…
Crude oil refining processes generate a large amount of petroleum sludge (PS) in petroleum industries. Globally, PS has gained widespread attention to ensure its effective waste management. This study investigated the suitability of PS to provide an…
The increasing exploitation of the unconventional bitumen-derived oils from Alberta (Canada) have raised new environmental concerns because they are inherently different than conventional oils. Previous studies mainly focused on diluted bitumen, but…
The biomaterials have gained the attention for utilization as sustainable alternatives for petroleum-derived products due to the rapid depletion of petroleum resources and environmental issues. Chitosan is an economical, renewable and abundant…
With the growing demand of oil worldwide, heavy oil has increasingly become vital in the world energy market. However, further development of heavy oil reservoirs are limited by regular enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. In situ upgrading…
Throughout the years we have realized the importance of asphalt in everyday life because to transport us from one place to another it is essential to pass the roads. There are a total of 171, 347 km of paved roads in Mexico of which 50, 435 km are…
In this work, the fouling behaviour of thermally processed bitumen products obtained by visbreaking was studied. The feedstock was prepared by blending raw oil sands bitumen with 15 vol% hydrotreated light oil (HLO). The visbreaking products obtained…
A wide range of organic-containing wastes exists throughout Europe, the majority of which can be classed as intermediate-level or long-lived low-level waste. In some countries, organic-containing wastes have already been disposed within near-surface…
This study aims to explore the main components of bitumen in western Iraq as a natural resource of heavy oil. The raw bitumen studied was fractionated into asphaltene and maltene, and then the maltene was separated into saturated, aromatic and polar…
Asphaltenes are a group of exotic hydrocarbons found in bitumen and other forms of heavy crude oil derivatives. These hydrocarbons, with elusive chemistry, give crude oil derivatives (CODs), such as bitumen, its characteristic properties. In bitumen,…
Phase equilibria data of hydrocarbon + water systems at high-pressures and high-temperatures are important for enhanced oil recovery, upgrading and biomass gasification. While numerous studies have reported on well-defined low molecular weight…
The increasing exploitation of the unconventional bitumen-derived oils from Alberta (Canada) have raised new environmental concerns because they are inherently different than conventional oils. Previous studies mainly focused on diluted bitumen, but…
The biomaterials have gained the attention for utilization as sustainable alternatives for petroleum-derived products due to the rapid depletion of petroleum resources and environmental issues. Chitosan is an economical, renewable and abundant…
Undoubtedly bitumen’s viscoelastic performance has received much attention in the literature. Especially, the oxidative ageing phenomenon of bitumen has been studied by several scholars from different physicochemical and mechanical perspectives due…
The increasing demand for non-renewable resources such as bitumen is a significant problem in the pavement industry. Flexible pavement primarily relies on and consumes a large quantity of bitumen, which has become a significant problem in terms of…
Asphaltenes and maltenes of bitumen before and after aging are investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H NMR), time of flight -…
A wide range of organic-containing wastes exists throughout Europe, the majority of which can be classed as intermediate-level or long-lived low-level waste. In some countries, organic-containing wastes have already been disposed within near-surface…
Many articles have evaluated the effect of the addition of a wide range of plastic types on bitumen properties. Because each study presents unique characteristics—such as plastic pretreatment, plastic-type, mixing conditions, percentage of addition,…
Bitumen’s surface microstructure is in general well-documented and most recent theories postulate the effect of crystalline wax on the so-called bee structures. Although it is widely accepted that ageing has an effect on this unique microstructure…
Understanding the evolution law of the self-healing ability of bitumen under actual service environment is conductive to optimizing the design of self-healing bituminous pavement, while the changing temperatures and variety of ageing states…
A study on the effect of artificial aging process applied to asphalt binders characterized by different degrees of penetration was carried out by performing rheological characterization, thermal analysis by means of differential scanning calorimetry…
The present work investigates the contribution of asphaltene aggregation to bitumen viscosity subject to ultrasound irradiation. A West-African bitumen with a viscosity of 12043cP at room temperature was sonicated at low (38 kHz) and mild frequency…
Over the years, a reduced upper limit on sulfur content in marine-vehicle fuel has created a situation where a major diversion of sulfur into bitumen will be noticeable in the near future. In addition to the naturally occurring sulfur compounds in…
The growth in bitumen and synthetic crude oil (SCO) production in the Canadian oil sands industry has superseded pipeline capacity growth in recent years, leading to the increased interest in the transport of crude oil by rail to desired markets.…
Over the years, different hypotheses and speculations have been developed on asphaltenes, but their presence in asphalt has never been directly observed. In this study, asphaltenes in nine types of asphalt that vary in crude oil source and aging…
A novel flow improver, the copolymer of octadecyl acrylate, styrene, and maleic anhydride (OASA), was prepared by copolymerization and esterification reaction to study its viscosity-reducing effect on bitumen based its existing application on crude…
Phase equilibria data of hydrocarbon + water systems at high-pressures and high-temperatures are important for enhanced oil recovery, upgrading and biomass gasification. While numerous studies have reported on well-defined low molecular weight…
The increasing exploitation of the unconventional bitumen-derived oils from Alberta (Canada) have raised new environmental concerns because they are inherently different than conventional oils. Previous studies mainly focused on diluted bitumen, but…
The biomaterials have gained the attention for utilization as sustainable alternatives for petroleum-derived products due to the rapid depletion of petroleum resources and environmental issues. Chitosan is an economical, renewable and abundant…
As the crude oil reserve is decreasing day by day, alternative source of fossil fuel has been uncovered in the form of bitumen. Bitumen is found mixed with clay or sand to form oil sand. With trillions of barrel proven reserve worldwide, sustainable…
Asphaltenes are a group of exotic hydrocarbons found in bitumen and other forms of heavy crude oil derivatives. These hydrocarbons, with elusive chemistry, give crude oil derivatives (CODs), such as bitumen, its characteristic properties. In bitumen,…
Phase equilibria data of hydrocarbon + water systems at high-pressures and high-temperatures are important for enhanced oil recovery, upgrading and biomass gasification. While numerous studies have reported on well-defined low molecular weight…
The increasing exploitation of the unconventional bitumen-derived oils from Alberta (Canada) have raised new environmental concerns because they are inherently different than conventional oils. Previous studies mainly focused on diluted bitumen, but…
Onsite partial upgrading is a promising strategy for facilitating pipeline transportation of bitumen without the use of diluent. In the present work, a one-step treatment using an autoclave is optimized toward upgrading Alberta bitumen of 9.6 API…
Bitumen extracted from Canada’s oil sands resources is an abundant, unconventional crude oil used to produce liquid fuels. To permit its transportation by transmission pipelines from production sites to upgraders and refineries, the highly-viscous…
The biomaterials have gained the attention for utilization as sustainable alternatives for petroleum-derived products due to the rapid depletion of petroleum resources and environmental issues. Chitosan is an economical, renewable and abundant…
Nigeria meets the bulk of her bitumen demand through importation despite her vast raw deposits. The country is now looking towards its local production by harnessing these vast deposits to change this narrative. The exploration of her abundant…