...-soluble products, and water-insoluble residues. All reaction products were studied with a variety of analytical techniques, including FTIR spectroscopy, chromatographic fractionation (SARA analysis), GC-MS, pyrolysis GCMS and GC-FPD/TCD. These techniques were applied to whole oil, maltenes and asphaltene...

...) process is a proven slurry based hydrogen addition technology able to process refinery residues, heavy crude oil and even coal. Commonly found in a refinery environment it is also ideally suited to field upgrading, since it can be tailored to produce directly marketable products, a high quality synthetic...