Image of Processing of Heavy Crude Oils: Challenges and Opportunities
Bookmark Share

Text

Processing of Heavy Crude Oils: Challenges and Opportunities

Unconventional heavy crude oils are replacing the conventional light crude oils slowly but steadily as a major energy source. Heavy crude oils are cheaper and present an opportunity to the refiners to process them with higher profit margins. However, the unfavourable characteristics of heavy crude oils such as high viscosity, low API gravity, low H/C ratio, chemical complexity with high asphaltenes content, high acidity, high sulfur and increased level of metal and heteroatom impurities impede extraction, pumping, transportation and processing. Very poor mobility of the heavy oils, due to very high viscosities, significantly affects production and transportation. Techniques for viscosity reduction, drag reduction and in-situ upgrading of the crude oil to improve the flow characteristics in pipelines are presented in this book. The heavier and complex molecules of asphaltenes with low H/C ratios present many technological challenges during the refining of the crude oil.

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information
Series Title
-
Call Number
-
Publisher
: .,
Collation
-
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781839684098
Classification
NONE
Content Type
-
Media Type
-
Carrier Type
-
Edition
-
Subject(s)
Technology & Engineering / Petroleum
Specific Detail Info
-
Statement of Responsibility
Other Information
Cataloger
Kholif Basri
Source
https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/217029e8-2c5c-4dbe-ad92-e7e3920f1e15
Other version/related

No other version available

File Attachment
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment