A Method for the Prediction of Boiling Point Curve of Heavy-Hydrocarbon Residua Based on Solubility Data (ABSTRACT)

摘要

The normal boiling point (BP) is a critical descriptor of crude oil quality. Just as the specific gravity (SG), this continuous property of petroleum is used in refineries as a controlling parameter in their fractionation into various distillation cuts. Over the last 50 years, researchers have been proposing correlation between BP and other molecular parameters, e.g., the molecular weight, SG, the H/C ratio, or the refractive index. The importance of these models cannot be overestimated as they are used to predict both the refining product yield distribution and quality.