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ACS OMEGA
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 135-147Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03974
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- Russian Science Foundation [19-12-00332]
- Russian Science Foundation [19-12-00332] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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The study conducted a comprehensive analysis of heavy oil upgrading in supercritical water using multiple analytical techniques, indicating the high effectiveness of SCW in heavy oil upgrading. Changes in EPR signal intensity were used to explain sulfur and metal removal mechanisms. It was shown for the first time that electronic relaxation times extracted from EPR measurements serve as sensitive parameters for SCW treatment.
Upgrading of heavy oil in supercritical water (SCW) was analyzed by a comprehensive analysis of GC, GC-MS, NMR, and SEM-EDX with the aid of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) as a complementary technical analysis. The significant changes in the physical properties and chemical compositions reveal the effectiveness of heavy oil upgrading by SCW. Especially, changes of intensities of conventional EPR signals from free radicals (FRs) and paramagnetic vanadyl complexes (VO2+) with SCW treatment were noticed, and they were explained, respectively, to understand sulfur removal mechanism (by FR intensity and environment destruction) and metal removal mechanism (by VO(2+ )complexes' transformation). For the first time, it was shown that electronic relaxation times extracted from the pulsed EPR measurements can serve as sensitive parameters of SCW treatment. The results confirm that EPR can be used as a complementary tool for analyzing heavy oil upgrading in SCW, even for the online monitoring of oilfield upgrading.
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