Interfacial Properties of Petroleum Products

Name: Interfacial Properties of Petroleum Products
Brand: CRC Press

CRC Press

With mounting pressure to extract petroleum from oil sands and other unconventional sources, oil refineries must adapt their processing methods to handle increasingly heavy crude oils. Unlike traditional crude oils, the properties of heavier crude oils include higher viscosity, metal, salt, and acid content. This causes their interfacial properties to deteriorate, leading to problems such as sedimentation, foaming, emulsification, rust, and corrosion\u2014all of which make the manufacture, transportation, and storage of petroleum products more difficult.