A comprehensive guide to a cutting-edge and cost-effective refinement process for heavy oil
Oil sufficiently viscous that it cannot flow normally from production wells is called heavy oil and constitutes as much as 70% of global oil reserves. Extracting and refining this oil can pose significant challenges, including very high transportation costs. As a result, processes which produce and partially refine heavy oil in situ, known as catalytic upgrading, are an increasingly important part of the heavy oil extraction process, and the reduced carbon footprint associated with these methods promises to make them even more significant in the coming years.
Catalytic In-Situ Upgrading of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils provides a comprehensive introduction to these processes. It introduces the properties and characteristics of heavy and extra-heavy oil before discussing different catalysts and catalyzing processes, their mechanisms and underlying physics, and more. It offers the full sweep of description and analysis required for petroleum and chemical engineers to understand this vital aspect of the modern oil industry.
Readers will also find: Detailed discussion of subjects including electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and more - Analysis of both liquid catalysts and nanoparticle catalysts - A numerical simulation of the catalytic in-situ oil upgrading process
Catalytic In-Situ Upgrading of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils is a valuable reference for petroleum and chemical engineers as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students in related fields.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors xv
About the Editors xix
Preface xxi
1 Properties of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils 1
Alexis Tirado, Guillermo Félix, Fernando Trejo, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Chengdong Yuan, Danis K. Nurgaliev, Vicente Sámano, and Jorge Ancheyta
2 Advanced Characterization of Heavy Crude Oils and their Fractions 39
3 Applications of Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques of Heavy Crudes 153
Chengdong Yuan, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Mustafa V. Kok, Danis K. Nurgaliev, and Airat H. Gabbasov
4 Fundamentals of In Situ Upgrading 168
Alexey Vakhin, Firdavs Aliev, Galina Kaukova, Ameen A. Al-Muntaser, Muneer A. Suwaid, Chengdong Yuan, Jorge Ancheyta, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev
5 Catalyst for In Situ Upgrading of Heavy Oils 237
Persi Schacht, Pablo Torres-Mancera, and Jorge Ancheyta
6 Nanoparticles for Heavy Oil In Situ Upgrading 263
Muneer A. Suwaid, Sergey A. Sitnov, Ameen Al-Muntaser, Chengdong Yuan, Alexey Vakhin, Jorge Ancheyta, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev
7 Catalytic Mechanism and Kinetics 309
Guillermo Félix, Alexis Tirado, Ameen Al-Muntaser, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Chengdong Yuan, and Jorge Ancheyta
8 Application of Quantum Chemical Calculations for Studying Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Catalytic Mechanisms of In Situ Upgrading 382
Nail Khafizov, Vadim Neklyudov, Anastasiya Mikhailova, and Oleg Kadkin
9 Behavior of Catalyst in Porous Media 435
Timur R. Zakirov, Rail I. Kadyrov, Chengdong Yuan, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev
10 Numerical Simulation of Catalytic In Situ Oil Upgrading Process 453
Allan Rojas, Denis Shevchenko, Vladislav Sudakov, Sergey Usmanov, and Michael Kwofie
11 Novel Technologies for Upgrading Heavy and Extra-Heavy Oil 489
Khusain Kadiev, Anton L. Maximov, and Jorge Ancheyta
Index 521
