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  title info:
    title: Experimental study of oil yields and properties of light and medium Venezuelan crude oils under steam and steam-propane distillation
  name:
    name part: Plazas Garcia, Joyce Vivia.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: x, 145 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Six experimental runs were carried out to study the yields for a light crude oil (34.2°API) and an intermediate crude oil (25.1°API) under steam distillation and steam-propane distillation. Yields, were measured at five temperatures, 110, 150, 200, 250, and 300°C at slightly superheated conditions. A propane:steam mass ratio of 5:100 was used for the steam-propane distillation runs. For the 34.2°API crude oil, weight yields are very similar for steam and steam-propane distillation, about 54% weight of original oil. However for the 25.1°API crude oil, weight yield for steam-propane distillation, 63%, is significantly higher than for steam distillation, 42% weight of original oil. The results indicate that propane has a stronger distillation effect on the intermediate oil than on the light oil. This is possibly due to the following reasons: (1) lesser amount of light fractions in the intermediate oil that enhance the separation of components in the oil caused by the concentration gradient, (2) the solvent effect of the propane on paraffinic fractions, these being more abundant in the intermediate than in the light oil, and (3) the propane is inducing a cracking of the oil at the higher temperatures and pressure. The positive effect of propane on distillation of the intermediate oil is also evident from the fact that the residual oil is highly viscous (due most likely to asphaltene precipitation), while lighter fractions have been distilled off.
  note: by Joyce Vivia Plazas Garcia.
  note: "Major subject: Petroleum Engineering".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 2002
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-40).
  subject:
    topic: Major petroleum engineering
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2002-THESIS-P53
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2002-THESIS-P53
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 030128
    record change date: 20220103134749.0
    record identifier: in00001724491