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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