Adsorption of asphaltenes at the water-oil interface contributes to the stability of petroleum emulsions by forming a networked film that can hinder drop-drop coalescence. The interfacial microstructure can either be liquid-like or solid-like, depending on (i) initial bulk concentration of asphaltenes, (ii) interfacial aging time, and (iii) solvent aromaticity. Two techniques--interfacial shear...

Abstract This research study aims to conduct a comparative performance analysis of different scaling equations and non-scaling models used for modeling asphaltene precipitation. The experimental data carry out this are taken from the published literature. Five which include Rassamadana et al., Rassamdana Sahimi, Hu Gou, Ashoori log–log were applied in two ways, i.e., on full dataset partial dat...

Abstract Carbonate acidization is the process of creating wormholes by injecting acid to increase reservoir permeability and oil production. Nevertheless, some oils are problematic with low asphaltene stability, which affects wormholing process. The interactions between acid, rock, lead acid-asphaltene sludge formation, reduces productivity injectivity. Neglecting this formation leads over pred...

The processes in which crude oil asphaltene aggregates are adsorbed onto surfaces have been the subject of debate recent years. Different thermodynamic, theoretical, and empirical models be...

Sulfur chemical structures present in crude oil products such as petroleum asphaltenes, resins, and maltenes obtained from two different oils have been determined using X-ray absorption nearedge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. Maltenes are pentane soluble portions, resins are pentane insoluble and heptane soluble portions, and asphaltenes are heptane insoluble portions of crude oil. The sulfur ...

The aggregation behavior of asphaltene in the toluene-hexane mixture is systematically investigated using experimental techniques such as optical microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) combined with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. images various concentrations are processed to determine size aggregates. FTIR performed within our work order understand formation aggreg...

in this investigation, the mechanical properties of the blends of blown bitumen110/10, heavy vacuum slops (h.v.s), bitumen 60/70 penetration grade and isotactic polypropylene (ipp) were studied for the first time. our results showed that modulus varies non-linearly and at certain asphaltenes contents a peak appears. considering these phenomena it is revealed that in the absence of ipp, interact...