With mounting pressure to extract petroleum from oil sands and
other unconventional sources, oil refineries must adapt their
processing methods to handle increasingly heavy crude oils. Unlike
traditional crude oils, the properties of heavier crude oils
include higher viscosity, metal, salt, and acid content. This
causes their interfacial properties to deteriorate, leading to
problems such as sedimentation, foaming, emulsification, rust, and
corrosion-all of which make the manufacture, transportation, and
storage of petroleum products more difficult.
Interfacial Properties of Petroleum Products examines
conventional and non-conventional processing techniques for crude
oils and documents their effects on the composition and properties
of petroleum products at the oil/solid, oil/air, oil/water and
oil/metal interfaces. Focusing on surface activity, the author
examines the undesirable effects of processes such as solvent
extraction, desalting, dewaxing, catalyst deactivation, and
hydroprocessing as well as trace element and water contamination.
With each process, the author presents methods for improving
interfacial properties, including the use of surface-active
additives, demulsifiers, antifoaming agents, and corrosion/rust
inhibitors.
A distinctive and up-to-date source of materials published
together for the first time, Interfacial Properties of Petroleum
Products will help engineers design more cost-effective and
resource-efficient processing methods for heavier crude oils, based
on the properties of the crude oil extracted.
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