Unconventional oils-mainly heavy oils, extra heavy oils and bitumens-represent a significant
share of the total oil world reserves. Oil companies have expressed interest in …

With more than 170 billion barrels of estimated oil sands reserves in Canada, Canada has
the third largest oil reserves in the world. However, more than 80% of oil sand's reserves are …

Unconventional feedstocks, such as heavy vacuum residue (VR), have become potential
candidates that could be positively exploited to meet the increasing demand of high-value …

This paper summarizes the technical knowledge necessary to study the hydrocracking of
heavy oil with dispersed catalysts. Chemical kinetics aspects of the hydrocracking of heavy …

Deconstruction of polyolefins by catalytic hydrogenolysis is typically accompanied by the
generation of undesired light gases. At reaction temperatures, the desired liquid products …

This book provides an up-to-date treatment of all the important aspects of modeling of
reactors employed in the main processes for heavy petroleum upgrading. It explains …

Petroleum refining involves refining crude petroleum as well as producing raw materials for
the petrochemical industry. This book covers current refinery processes and process-types …

This paper deals with two topics from state and parameter estimation. The first contribution of
this work provides an overview of techniques used for determining which parameters of a …

In this work, a kinetic model for hydrocracking of heavy oils is proposed. The model includes
five lumps: unconverted resid (538° C+), vacuum gas oil (VGO; 343− 538° C), distillates …

This paper passes over the literature for residual oil characterization. The methods for
residual oil characterization are classified in: characterization based on physical and …