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    Crude Quality Property. Abridged

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    This document summarizes key properties of heavy crude oil and their impacts. It lists properties like API gravity, sulfur content, nitrogen, metals, asphaltenes, and acids then comments on how each impacts operations. Properties with high levels can cause issues like requiring diluents to transport, more frequent corrosion, faster catalyst deactivation, and increased fouling or pumping costs. Managing these properties is important for refining heavy crudes.

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    This document summarizes key properties of heavy crude oil and their impacts. It lists properties like API gravity, sulfur content, nitrogen, metals, asphaltenes, and acids then comments on how each impacts operations. Properties with high levels can cause issues like requiring diluents to transport, more frequent corrosion, faster catalyst deactivation, and increased fouling or pumping costs. Managing these properties is important for refining heavy crudes.

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    This document summarizes key properties of heavy crude oil and their impacts. It lists properties like API gravity, sulfur content, nitrogen, metals, asphaltenes, and acids then comments on how each impacts operations. Properties with high levels can cause issues like requiring diluents to transport, more frequent corrosion, faster catalyst deactivation, and increased fouling or pumping costs. Managing these properties is important for refining heavy crudes.

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    Crude Quality Property. Abridged

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    Santhosh Kumar
    This document summarizes key properties of heavy crude oil and their impacts. It lists properties like API gravity, sulfur content, nitrogen, metals, asphaltenes, and acids then comments on how each impacts operations. Properties with high levels can cause issues like requiring diluents to transport, more frequent corrosion, faster catalyst deactivation, and increased fouling or pumping costs. Managing these properties is important for refining heavy crudes.

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    Heavy Crude Quality

    Property API Sulphur Nitrogen Metals Ni/V/Fe Metals Na/Ca/As Asphaltenes Naphthenic acids Chlorides Viscosity

    Comment

    Impact

    Typically, oil gravity approaches water, requiring a diluents to separate water from hydrocarbon High sulphur levels requiring hydrotreatment High nitrogen levels requiring H2 for removal, producing NH3 High catalyst replacement Alkaline metals, special guard bed / catalysts for removal Potential for fouling, may cause frequent maintenance shutdown High levels will cause corrosion Typically associated with alkaline metal Too high to pump; requires diluents

    Water / Oil separation Corrosion Corrosion Catalyst deactivation Corrosion / catalyst deactivation Fouling Corrosion / fouling Corrosion High transportation / pumping cost

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