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    Review on Chemical Separation of Crude Oil and Analysis of Its Components

    Abstract: Crude oil is chemically composed of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of different gaseous, liquid and solid states, the total of which may reach more than 17,000 organic compounds. At standard conditions of pressure and temperature the light hydrocarbons with carbon numbers 1 to 4 (methane, ethane, propane, butane) are present in gaseous form; Whereas pentane and the heavier hydrocarbons are found in liquid form, and in the heavy fractions …

    Published in Journal of Petroleum Engineering & Technology · Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2021 · pp. 35–49 Read article

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