Hydrocarbon recovery and reserves estimation largely depend upon the hydrocarbon-water-
mineral wettability. However, wettability is a complex parameter and experimental …

Steam/solvent coinjection has been studied and pilot tested as a potential method to
improve steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) for bitumen recovery. Reliable design of …

Asphaltenes are the least soluble fraction of crude oil and they can phase separate from the
oil upon a change in temperature, pressure, or composition. This phase separation, often …

This study characterized the sooting tendencies of a set of gasolines and their surrogates
using both experimental and computational methods. Sooting tendency was defined in …

The phase boundaries for mixtures of n-pentane and bitumen were determined at
temperatures from 21 to 280° C and pressures up to 14 MPa. Both vapor-liquid equilibria …

Asphaltene precipitation kinetics were investigated for four crude oils with different
asphaltene contents, each diluted with n-heptane at room conditions. The yields of …

Vacuum residue (VR) was subjected to catalytic hydrocracking with H 2 in a pilot-scale slurry
bubble column reactor (SBCR) with 0.05 m diameter and 2 m height at 425° C and 160 bar …

Pyrolysis is widely applied in industrial fields including waste-to-energy conversion and
hypersonic-vehicle cooling technology. Traditional offline analysis methods for fluid products …

The expanded fluid (EF) viscosity model was recently developed for petroleum applications.
While petroleum fluids can be modeled as a single-component fluid, process calculations …

In the steam-based recovery processes, the coinjected gas can dissolve and diffuse into
bitumen or heavy oil for viscosity reduction. The equilibrium concentration and solubility of …