Paper electrophoresis of bitumen in oil sands
β Scribed by Walter Sowa; Harold Lomas
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 251 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-2361
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β¦ Synopsis
Letters to the Editor o.66 0 100 200 300 LOO 500 Time lh) Figure2 Variation of C,f/C,, with duration of oxidation (105Β°C. in air) C,, as a function of time of oxidation at 105". This shows that the aromatic structures in the coal are being modified more than the aliphatic structures during the oxidation. Recent work on model compounds show that this is at least chemically possible.5 These results raise the question as to what chemical changes taking place during the lowtemperature oxidation of coal are responsible for the loss of coking properties. More work is required to answer such a complex question in mechanistic terms but i3C n.m.r. (CP-MAS) holds promise as a valuable probe for the characterization of the oxidation. Further studies of this matter are in progress.
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Centrifugation was shown to have certain advantages over solvent extraction for the separation of bitumen from oil sand for research purposes. No fractionation of the bitumen during centrifugation was detected by chemical analysis. Some limitations of the method are pointed out.
The bitumen from the Whiterocks oil sand deposit in the Uinta Basin of eastern Utah was hydrotreated in a fixed-bed reactor to determine the extent of upgrading as a function of operating variables, including pressure (11.2-16.7 MPa), temperature (642-712 K) and liquid hourly space velocity (0.18-0.
The temperature dependence of, first, the yield of bitumen extracted from oil sands and, second, of the coextracted solid particles in the bitumen was studied. Centrifugal extractions were performed in an argon (inert) atmosphere at temperatures ranging from 30Β°C to 150Β°C. The co-extracted solid par