Scope: This document specifies a method for the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum products by capillary gas chromatography using flame ionization detection. This document is applicable to materials having a vapour pressure…
Present study demonstrates a two-stage integrated process for production of hydrocarbon oil designated as ALGLIQOL, with potential to be utilized as liquid transportation fuel. Stage-I involves in-situ catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of…
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…
We address for the first time a platform able to distil small volume of crude oil, providing the generation of oil fractions for succeeding composition analysis and accurate quantification of significant derivatives, i.e., naphtha, kerosene, and…
The determination of water content in crude oil is important for oil transportation, refining, and trade. However, the sensitivity and accuracy of the conventional azeotropic distillation (AD) method are inadequate. Karl Fischer titration methods may…
The need to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may require the use of renewable gaseous fuels in the food and beverage industry to decarbonise processes that are difficult to electrify such as whiskey distillation. Large companies report…
Scope: This test method covers the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum products. The test method is applicable to petroleum products and fractions having a final boiling point of 538C (1000F) or lower at atmospheric pressure…
Scope: This International Standard specifies a method for the determination of the bromine number of the following materials: a) petroleum distillates that are substantially free of material lighter than 2-methylpropane, and that have 90 %(V/V) (i.e.…
The hydrodynamic parameters of molecular distillation (mean free pathMFP and Knudsen numberKn) were estimated under a screening of evaporator temperature (423.15-623.15 K) and the pressure system (0.1-1.0 Pa). The modeling and simulation were based…
1 Scope This document specifies a test method for the determination of the content of mono-aromatic, di-aromatic and tri+-aromatic hydrocarbons in diesel fuels, paraffinic diesel fuels and petroleum distillates. This document defines two procedures,…
1 Scope This document specifies a method for the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum products by capillary gas chromatography using flame ionization detection. The standard is applicable to materials having a vapour pressure…
Water scarcity is a big challenge especially for developing countries and desert areas like Saudi Arabia. Using solar energy for freshwater production is the way forward for future development of the water industry. The present study developed a new…
1 Scope This document specifies a method for the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum products by capillary gas chromatography using flame ionization detection. The standard is applicable to materials having a vapour pressure…
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…
Results are given for a study on the optimization of the composition of crude oil consisting of petroleum, fuel oil, and gas condensate to improve atmospheric distillation at an installation of the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat Atmospheric and Vacuum…
Characterization of challenging and/or new energy materials (e.g., biomass/biofuels, heavy oils, and solid petroleum products) requires the generation of new and improved analytical technologies. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)…
Although condensate oils are neither well defined nor have a known chemical composition, they are considered by the petroleum industry to be good candidates for the dilution of heavy crude oil as this generates a blend with a lower viscosity. This…
Scope: This test method covers the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum distillate fractions. The test method is applicable to petroleum distillate fractions having an initial boiling point greater than 174C (345F) and a final…
Scope: This test method covers the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum distillate fractions. The test method is applicable to petroleum distillate fractions having an initial boiling point greater than 174C (345F) and a final…
A coal-petroleum co-processing oil (CPCO) and its distillation fraction at 180 C (DF180) were subjected to catalytic hydro-desulfurization and hydrogenation with batch autoclave and fixed bed reactor respectively to produce potential jet fuels with…
Scope: The procedures in this test method cover the determination of organic chloride (above 1 g/g organically-bound chlorine) in crude oils, using either distillation and sodium biphenyl reduction, distillation and microcoulometry, or distillation…
The work is considering of technology of Crude distillation unit in general modern technology of refining process. Crude distillation unit (CDU) is at the front-end of the oil refinery. Oil topping column K-1 is especially important in the general…
Scope: The procedures in this test method cover the determination of organic chloride (above 1 g/g organically-bound chlorine) in crude oils, using either distillation and sodium biphenyl reduction, distillation and microcoulometry, or distillation…
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…
Co-processing renewable feedstock in existing refineries could be a prompt and ready-to-use approach to decarbonize the transportation sector, without large modifications to current processing infrastructures. In this study, we explore the…
In this work, NiFe nanocatalysts with different molar ratios 1:0.33, 1:1 and 1:3 were synthesized by a modified inverse microemulsion method at Soft Chemistry conditions in order to apply them to heavy crude oil (HCO) in situ hydroprocessing and to…
In this paper, phase behavior in temperature scanning of E1305/distillate fractions/water/n-butyl alcohol microemulsion system were investigated. And the effect of surfactant concentration and oil type on microemulsion solubilization ability was…
In this work, nanocatalysts as Ni, Mo, Fe nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized by the modified inverse microemulsion method at room temperature conditions in order to apply them to heavy crude oil (HCO) in situ hydroprocessing and to improve their…
Petroleum, contains proportions of contaminants such as sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and metals, such as nickel, iron, copper, sodium, and vanadium. Particularly, contaminants containing sulfur cause problems during handling, transportation, and the use…
Hydrodynamic cavitation process can produce extreme physical conditions such as local high temperature, high pressure, high jet flow and strong shear stress. Therefore, applying the hydrodynamic cavitation device to upgrade Saudi heavy crude oil is…
1 Scope This document describes a method for the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum products by capillary gas chromatography using flame ionization detection. The standard is applicable to crude oils. The boiling range…
The chemical characterization of crude oil fractions is important for the petroleum research and complex structure of crude oil residue keeps studies ongoing. An analytical method which gives the composition of residue is not available yet and a…
A light Arabian crude oil was separated by distillation into 27 fractions, including 25 very narrow distillation cuts, the light ends, and a vacuum residue (VR), which were extensively characterised using standard methods. Overall, the properties…
Abstract: The modern concepts of crude oils and refinery products as petroleum disperse systems are surveyed, as well as the related possibilities of optimizing crude oil refining processes. Through the optimal blending of components, it is possible…
Passive solar stills can be a viable source of freshwater in water and energy scarce regions. However, the low production rate is one of the major drawbacks of passive solar stills. This work presents an experimental study of the combined effects of…
Nowadays, most of the worlds energy consumption is from fossil fuels. One of these fossil fuels is natural gas condensate which consists of various hydrocarbon components and could be used as the main fuel resource. However, these condensates contain…
The conventional process employed for the removal of N2 in a natural gas upgrading facility is cryogenic distillation (CD) and entails a significant investment outlay. Operation of the CD unit occurs at approximately 40bar and 120C, provided by a…
The water content data of wellhead crude oil is an important basis for determining the production accounting of oil fields, the adjustment of block unit and the effectiveness of the single well operation, which is related to enterprise cost…
Nowadays, maintenance is based on the synergistic integration of operational reliability and timely maintenance, which guarantees the required availability and optimal cost. Operational reliability implies producing more, better performance, longer…
In the process of oil exploitation, the water level of an oil well can be predicted and the position of reservoir can be estimated by measuring the water content of crude oil, with reference for the automatic production of high efficiency in the oil…
Scope: This document specifies a method for the determination of the boiling range distribution of petroleum products by capillary gas chromatography using flame ionization detection. This document is applicable to materials having a vapour pressure…
This work investigates the thermo-oxidative behaviour of saturates, aromatics, and resins, at different pressures of 0.084, 3.0, and 6.0 MPa. Saturates (S), aromatics (Ar), and resins (R) were characterized by elemental analysis, vapor pressure…
This work presents the highlights of the results obtained from the operations of a laboratory-scale pilot plant, designed for the demonstration of an innovative gas sweetening technology. The theory behind the process, based on a dual-pressure…
Natural gas is expected to have the most important growth among fossil fuels being the cleanest-burning one and also taking into account the ever-increasing role liquefied natural gas is playing within the gas sector. To meet the increasing demand…
The development of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plants has resulted in a focus on reducing the weight and size of the topside processing facilities for these units. The conventional fractionation of natural gas liquids (NGL) in LNG plants…
The precise chromatographic isolation of saturates is a common problem of the characterization of highly paraffinic petroleum based samples. Incomplete elution of high-molecular-weight saturates (HMWS) or contamination of saturates by aromatics can…
We have previously demonstrated that the Distillation, Precipitation, Fractionation Mass Spectrometry (DPF MS) method can be used to characterize crude oil at the molecular level by fractionating the crude oil into six different chemical classes and…
In this work, an atmospheric petroleum residue was fractionated using a falling film molecular distillation pilot plant with molecular distillation temperatures ranging from 190 to 320 C. The process produced four distillate cuts and four residues…
Abstract: The condensation and fractionation unit design affects the quantity and quality of the liquid products derived from the waste plastics pyrolysis. The oil products, if meet the standards requirements, can be used as an alternative fuel.…
Batch distillation is useful in the essential oil (EO) industry to standardize and improve EO properties. Using the Lippia origanoides EO as a source of phenylpropanoids, a methodology was developed to solve and experimentally validate a batch…