Composition of heavy petroleums. 3. An improved boiling point-molecular weight relation

Petroleomics: MS Returns to Its Roots.

“…They introduced the concept of structure-oriented lumping to deal with the sample complexity within the limitations of the then-available analytical techniques (7 ). Another seminal series of reports, by Boduszynski and others, on the composition of heavy petroleum drew on a variety of analytical techniques to derive a surprisingly inclusive description of complex petrochemicals (8)(9)(10)(11). The high mass resolution and high mass accuracy of FT ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) MS made it an attractive candidate for complex mixture analysis when it made its debut in the mid-1970s, although those capabilities were fully realized only in the last decade or so (12)(13)(14).…”

Exploring Complex Mixtures by Cyclic Ion Mobility High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Application Toward Petroleum

“…The full width at half-maximum (FWHM) was found between 1 up to several ms. This continuum of isomeric and isobaric species revealed by cIMS can be well described by the so-called Boduszynski continuum. , Boduszynski introduced this model in the late 1980s, − and Rodgers et al proved it by ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry in the last decade. ,,− Fossil crude oil composition increases gradually and continuously in aromaticity, molecular weight, and heteroatom content as a function of boiling point.…”

An Investigation on the Feasibility of Simulating the Distribution of the Boiling Point and Molecular Weight of Heavy Oils

“…These values are much lower than 23% and 35% relative deviation registered for the extrapolated by Riazi's distribution model molecular weights. Boiling points and molecular weights of petroleum fractions are strongly related and this relation is documented in several correlations (Winn, 1955;Kesler and Lee, 1976;Altgelt and Boduszynski, 1992;Goossens, 1996;Riazi, 2005). In all molecular weight correlations boiling point and density (specific gravity) are the only petroleum properties involved in the equations.…”

“…Distillation characteristics of six atmospheric residues measured by employing short-path distillation apparatus (DISTACT, Leybold-Heraeus GmbH) and reported in the work of Boduszynski (1987) were used in our study. The distribution of the properties: molecular weight of five atmospheric residues reported in the work of Altgelt and Boduszynski (1992) were also used in our work. The distillation characteristics and the distribution of the molecular weight of the atmospheric residues investigated by Boduszynski and Algelt are summarized in Table 2.…”