2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Heavy Oil Chemistry I

Chairs

Irv Wiehe, Soluble Solutions
John F. Schabron, Western Research Institute
Parviz Rahimi, National Centre for Upgrading Technology
Jinwen Chen, CanmetENERGY
Ahmed Khogeer, Saudi Aramco

Presentations

08:00 AM

(28a) Depicting and Separating "Pro-Linking" Componds to Enhance Upgrading Performance and Heavy Oils Processing
Pedro R. Pereira Almao

09:00 AM

(28b) Heavy Oil Tutorial: Polynuclear Aromatics, the Barrier to Conversion
Irv Wiehe

09:30 AM

(28c) Ionization Reagents for Enhanced Speciation of Petroleum Compound Classes by Electrospray Ionization FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry (ESI FT-ICR MS)
Priyanka Juyal, Ryan P. Rodgers, Alan G. Marshall

10:00 AM

(28d) Understanding Asphaltenes Conversion in Fixed Bed Conditions
João Marques, Arnaud Baudot, Isabelle Merdrignac, Denis Guillaume, Didier Espinat, Sylvette Brunet

10:30 AM

(28e) Updating Heavy Oil and Upgrading Vacuum Simulation and Design Considerations
Darius Remesat