Catalytic In-Situ Upgrading of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils

ISBN-13: 9781119871477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 500 str.

Spis treści

List of Contributors xvAbout the Editors xixPreface xxi1 Properties of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils 1Alexis Tirado, Guillermo Félix, Fernando Trejo, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Chengdong Yuan, Danis K. Nurgaliev, Vicente Sámano, and Jorge Ancheyta2 Advanced Characterization of Heavy Crude Oils and their Fractions 393 Applications of Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques of Heavy Crudes 153Chengdong Yuan, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Mustafa V. Kok, Danis K. Nurgaliev, and Airat H. Gabbasov4 Fundamentals of In Situ Upgrading 168Alexey Vakhin, Firdavs Aliev, Galina Kaukova, Ameen A. Al-Muntaser, Muneer A. Suwaid, Chengdong Yuan, Jorge Ancheyta, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev5 Catalyst for In Situ Upgrading of Heavy Oils 237Persi Schacht, Pablo Torres-Mancera, and Jorge Ancheyta6 Nanoparticles for Heavy Oil In Situ Upgrading 263Muneer A. Suwaid, Sergey A. Sitnov, Ameen Al-Muntaser, Chengdong Yuan, Alexey Vakhin, Jorge Ancheyta, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev7 Catalytic Mechanism and Kinetics 309Guillermo Félix, Alexis Tirado, Ameen Al-Muntaser, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Chengdong Yuan, and Jorge Ancheyta8 Application of Quantum Chemical Calculations for Studying Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Catalytic Mechanisms of In Situ Upgrading 382Nail Khafizov, Vadim Neklyudov, Anastasiya Mikhailova, and Oleg Kadkin9 Behavior of Catalyst in Porous Media 435Timur R. Zakirov, Rail I. Kadyrov, Chengdong Yuan, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev10 Numerical Simulation of Catalytic In Situ Oil Upgrading Process 453Allan Rojas, Denis Shevchenko, Vladislav Sudakov, Sergey Usmanov, and Michael Kwofie11 Novel Technologies for Upgrading Heavy and Extra-Heavy Oil 489Khusain Kadiev, Anton L. Maximov, and Jorge AncheytaIndex 521

O autorze

Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, PhD, is Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Head of the Enhanced Oil Laboratory of Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published extensively on heavy oil, in-situ upgrading, and related subjects.Chengdong Yuan, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published widely on hydrocarbon recovery, in-situ heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects.Jorge Ancheyta, PhD, is Manager of Products for the Transformation of Crude Oil at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum, where he has worked since 1989, as well as Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City. He has taught and published prodigiously on petroleum refinement, heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects.