METHOD OF DETERMINING THE STABILITY RESERVE AND SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS OF A PROCESS STREAM CONTAINING ASPHALTENES BY JOINT USE OF TURBIDIMETRIC METHOD AND REFRACTIVE INDEX

摘要

A method is provided for determining the solubility parameters for a process stream via the joint use of turbidimetric detection of asphaltenes flocculation, which is used to determine and detect the onset flocculation of asphaltenes of the process stream, and a refractive index to determine the process stream solubility parameters such as the solubility blending number and insolubility number.