Foreword ....................................................... ix
Preface ........................................................ xi
Acknowledgments ................................................ xv
Editors ...................................................... xvii
Contributors .................................................. xix
SECTION I. Background Chapters
Chapter 1 Petroleum Molecular Composition Continuity Model ..... 3
Mieczyslow M. Boduszynski
Chapter 2 Process and Laboratory Sampling for Analytical
Systems: Similarities and Subtle Differences ................ 31
William M. Cost
SECTION II Water Analysis
Chapter 3 Advances in Oil-in-Water Monitoring Technology ...... 51
Darrell L. Gallup
SECTION III Properties
Chapter 4 Characterization of Athabasca and Arabian Light
Vacuum Residues and Their Thermally Cracked Products:
Implications of the Structural Information on Adsorption
over Solid Surfaces ......................................... 61
Francisco Lopez-Linares, Mazin M. Fathi, Lante Carbognani
Ortega, Azfar Hassan, Pedro Pereira-Almao, Estrella Rogel,
César Ovalles, Ajit Pradhan, and John Zintsmaster
Chapter 5 Analysis of Olefins in Heavy Oil, Bitumen, and
Their Upgraded Products ..................................... 81
Lante Carbognani Ortega, Francisco Lopez-Linares, Qiao Wu,
Marianna Trujillo, Josune Carbognani, and Pedro Pereira-
Almao
SECTION IV Analytical Measurements
Chapter 6 Advances in Gas Chromatography for Petroleum
Upstream, Refining, Petrochemical, and Related
Environmental Applications ................................. 113
Carl E. Rechsteiner Jr., John Crandall, and Ned Roques
Chapter 7 Application of NMR Technology in Petroleum
Exploration and Characterization ........................... 125
Zheng Yang, Ajit Pradhan, John Zintsmaster, and Boqin Sun
Chapter 8 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Upstream Applications:
Crude Oil Characterization, Water-Oil Interface Behavior,
and Porous Media ........................................... 139
Teresa E. Lehmann and Vladimir Alvarado
SECTION V Heavy Ends and Asphaltenes
Chapter 9 On-Column Filtration Asphaltene Characterization
Methods for the Analysis of Produced Crude Oils and
Deposits from Upstream Operations .......................... 161
Estrella Rogel, Cesar Ovalles, and Michael E. Moir
Chapter 10 Asphaltene Adsorption on Iron Oxide Surfaces ....... 177
Estrella Rogel and Michael Roye
Chapter 11 Determination of Asphaltenes Using Microfluidics ... 199
Farshid Mostowfi and Vincent Sieben
SECTION VI Modeling and Chemometrics
Chapter 12 Application of Data Fusion for Enhanced
Understanding and Control .................................. 239
Thomas I. Dearing, Rachel Mohler, Carl E. Rechsteiner Jr.,
and Brian J. Marquardt
Chapter 13 Application of Computer Simulations to Surfactant
Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery ............................. 275
Jan-Willem Handgraaf, Kunj Tandon, Shekhar Jain, Marten
Buijse, and Johannes G.E.M. Fraaije
Chapter 14 Understanding the Molecular Information Contained
in the Infrared Spectra of Colombian Vacuum Residua by
Principal Component Analysis ............................... 301
Jorge A. Orrego-Ruiz, Daniel Molina, Enrique Mejía-Ospino,
and Alexander Guzmán
Index ......................................................... 301
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