The recent transition to H2-based energy storage demands reliable H2 sensors that allow for easy, fast, and reliable detection of leaks. Conventional H2 detectors are based on the changes of physical properties of H2 probes induced by subsurface…
The global economy is threatened by the depletion of fossil resources and fluctuations in fossil fuel prices, and thus it is necessary to exploit sustainable energy sources. Carbon-neutral fuels including bio-oil obtained from biomass pyrolysis can…
Catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) is an advanced controlled process of biomass thermal decomposition designed to produce high volumes of ready-to-use transportation biofuels or to provide improved quality bio-oil for subsequent refining or upgrading.…
Ultra-high molecular weight poly--olefins are widely used as drag reducing agents (DRAs) for pipeline transportation of oil and refined petroleum products. The synthesis of polyolefin DRAs is based on low-temperature ZieglerNatta (ZN) polymerization…
With the demand for gasoline and diesel expected to decline in the near future, crude-to-chemicals technologies have the potential to become the most important processes in the petrochemical industry. This trend has triggered intense research to…
Herein, we present the production of jet and diesel range hydrocarbons from non-edible hexane-extracted Brassica carinata oil. The influence of four heterogeneous catalysts (two noble metal catalysts: Pd/C and Ru/C, and two transition metal…
Background Heavy and super-heavy oils are characterized by a high content of resins and asphaltenes, which complicate the transportation and refining of oil and lead to an increase in the cost of refinery products. Currently, of particular interest…
Light alkanes from shale resources can potentially be converted to an easy-to-transport liquid hydrocarbon product by catalytic dehydrogenation followed by catalytic oligomerization. The chemical species in the liquid product and their concentrations…
The use of asphaltic crude oil resources as an alternative to offset light oil supplies over the next years has attracted oil field attention. However, its high viscosity greatly impedes the production of asphaltic crude oil from wells and…
Petroleum refinery has been developed for production of transportation fuel with light alkenes and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (abbreviated BTEX), but global market demands are shifting to chemicals produced from light alkenes and…
Heavy or extra-heavy crude oil has difficulty in transportation, especially for off shore. Catalytic upgrade treatment with iron oil-soluble catalyst (FASFe) was used in this paper to reduce crude oil's viscosity and meet the transport demand. After…
Utilization of the abundant heavy crude oil resources has been accepted as an effective approach to tackle the shortage of light oil supply in the coming decades. However, the high viscosity and density of heavy crude oil severely hurdle the…
Heavy or extra-heavy crude oil has difficulty in transportation, especially for off shore. Catalytic upgrade treatment with iron oil-soluble catalyst (FASFe) was used in this paper to reduce crude oil's viscosity and meet the transport demand. After…
Abstract: The process of deasphalted oil thermal cracking in the presence of catalysts formed from oil-soluble Fe, Mo, Ni, and Co acetylacetonates is studied. It is shown that the used catalysts substantially change physicochemical properties of the…
NMR spectroscopy continues to be a useful tool to characterize heavy petroleum fractions. Over the last few years, advancements in three techniques have opened new avenues to characterize heavy petroleum fractions and catalysts and dramatically…
Conversion of olefin-rich side streams of petroleum distillate cracking operations, pyrolysis gasoline (pygas), to hydrocarbon resins (HRs) represents a promising technology to upgrade the pygas byproduct and facilitate pygas valorization. Several…
Oil sludge (OS) has been of key concern due to its continuing effect on the environment degradation. The huge quantities thrown yearly of this waste contain a high proportion of hydrocarbons which are valuable for recovery. This study focused on the…
Recently, hydrothermal catalytic process in reservoir conditions (in-situ upgrading) has got remarkable attentions. In this study, the feasibility of the in-situ upgrading of Ashalcha crude oil (Tatarstan region, Russia) using steam and catalyst…
Upgrading heavy crude oil from East of Baghdad oilfield using a high pressure reactor with steam supplied and toluene as hydrogen donor has been investigated through aquathermolysis process. Synthesized Zn/HY Zeolite, which is characterized by XRD,…
The process of heavy crude oil steam cracking using semi-flow (with respect to water) and steadystate regimes at 425C without catalyst is investigated. It is established that in the case of a semi-flow regime, water acts predominantly as a physical…
Inthisstudywepresenttheresultsofphysicalstimulationofin-situaquathermolysis process carried out on heavy crude oil sample from Yarega (Russia) oil field in the presence of nickel/iron tallates and clay minerals. The experimental results revealed that…
Crude Palm Oil (CPO) is one of vegetable oil obtained by extracting palm fruit mesocarp and has a red color because of the high content of beta carotene. Other bioactive ingredients in CPO include Vitamin E, squalene, and phytosterol found in the…
The asphaltene fractions from initial crude oil of Ashal'cha field were extracted for the further investigation. Moreover, the non-catalytic and catalytic products of aquathermolysis in the presence of cobalt-containing catalyst precursor and…
In this study, it was aimed to obtain the conversion of the heavy crude oil with 12.2 API gravity into the liquid fuel-like condensate fractions having different boiling points of gasoline (initial boiling point180), kerosene (180240C), light diesel…
Alumina-supported Ni-promoted W oxides, carbides and nitrides were presulfided and employed for reducing pollutants and increasing the quality of an extra-heavy crude oil during catalytic upgrading reactions. These materials were prepared by…
Nowadays, the production of liquid fuel faces such problems as the matching of the final product with the world standards. To solve these problems, the development of novel technologies and highly effective catalysts for crude oil processing and…
The heavy crude oil of the Mordovo-Karmal deposit was cracked in the presence of NiCr/WC catalyst. The catalytic upgrading heavy crude oil was carried out in the batch reactor at 450 C, catalyst content in the range of 0.010.20 wt%, and 100 min of…
Lime based catalysts are reported to be active in oil alcoholysis, biodiesel production, but their sensitivity to moisture and atmospheric CO2 can hinder their use at the industrial level because it is suspected that they must be manipulated in a…
The challenging requirements of high safety, low-cost, all-climate and long lifespan restrict most battery technologies for grid-scale energy storage. Historically, owing to stable electrode reactions and robust battery chemistry, aqueous…
In this work, the catalytic aquathermolysis process of a Colombian heavy crude oil was studied. Reactivity tests were conducted in a microbatch reactor at 270 C and saturation pressure of 5.5 MPa, during 66 h, using iron and molybdenum naphthenates…
A thermal processing of waste tires in the presence of a natural zeolite catalyst from the "Tayzhuzgen" field (Eastern Kazakhstan) is detailed. The hydrogen sources utilized were heavy residues from oil refinement. The elemental and phase composition…
Conventional methods to upgrade heavy oil due to high pressure, low production efficiency, and low product quality have not been recognized as profitable methods. These complications resulted in using innovative technologies in this area. In this…
Background Heavy and super-heavy oils are characterized by a high content of resins and asphaltenes, which complicate the transportation and refining of oil and lead to an increase in the cost of refinery products. Currently, of particular interest…
Spent hydroprocessing catalysts are known to contain a variety of potentially toxic metals and therefore studies on the bioavailability and mobility of these metals are critical for understanding the possible environmental risks of the spent…
In this paper we isolated resins from a sample of extra heavy oil and from the products of catalytic aquathermolysis in the presence of a cobalt based catalyst and studied their structure. In fact, an oil fraction and 4 resin fractions (R1-R4) have…
Palm oil is the vegetable oil refined and modified in the largest amount. In this study, we present the effect of wet fractionation and hydrogenation of RBD palm oil on the removal of 3-MCPD and glycidyl esters. Fractionated palmstearins had…
We analyzed, for the first time, the different fractions of metals present in the spent catalyst and changes they undergone during bioleaching and chemical leaching. Before bioleaching, Al (83.9%) was found mainly in the residual fraction of the…
Crude oil sludge is one of the key waste streams of the refinery, and it contains valuable hydrocarbons that can be potentially converted to fuels and petrochemicals. This study is unique in evaluating the effects of activated carbon susceptor (ACS)…
Abstract: In this study the surface of bio-based polyurethane foam was enriched with different contents of catalyst residue from the petroleum industry. The foams were prepared with different residue contents, 20, 50, and 80 wt% relative to the total…
Currently such factors as the use of heavier feedstocks, permanent strengthening of requirements to oil and gas product quality, introduction of technical regulations for oil products, which, in turn, necessitate the development of new technologies…
Inthisstudywepresenttheresultsofphysicalstimulationofin-situaquathermolysis process carried out on heavy crude oil sample from Yarega (Russia) oil field in the presence of nickel/iron tallates and clay minerals. The experimental results revealed that…
The ultrasonic-assisted oxidative desulfurization (UAOD) process of an Iranian heavy crude oil was performed for the first time. The applied heavy crude oil was from the West Paydar Field, Iran. Its main properties included API gravity, 18.53 and…
This work addresses the effect of operating parameters and catalysts on pyrolytic products yield and nature of pyrolytic liquid generated from Areca catechu sawdust (AN). Physicochemical characteristics of AN showcased its bio-energy potential as a…
Natural gas is a major fuel source for power generation and heating applications. To partly decarbonize its use, a promising technology is the production of hydrogen, easy to be mixed into the natural gas grid, or directly used in fuel cells and…
The ultrasonic-assisted oxidative desulfurization (UAOD) process of an Iranian heavy crude oil was performed for the first time. The applied heavy crude oil was from the West Paydar Field, Iran. Its main properties included API gravity, 18.53 and…
The application of advanced nanomaterials for catalysis has attracted much attention as it offers many benefits due to their unique physicochemical properties. Nevertheless, the utilization of these nanomaterials for scalable industrial applications…
Crude oil sludge is one of the key waste streams of the refinery, and it contains valuable hydrocarbons that can be potentially converted to fuels and petrochemicals. This study is unique in evaluating the effects of activated carbon susceptor (ACS)…
Crude oil sludge is one of the key waste streams of the refinery, and it contains valuable hydrocarbons that can be potentially converted to fuels and petrochemicals. This study is unique in evaluating the effects of activated carbon susceptor (ACS)…
Process economics and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are evaluated for the conversion of eleven (11) biomass feedstocks to produce transportation fuels via fast pyrolysis and then pyrolysis oil upgrading via hydrodeoxygenation. The biomass consists…