Total Acid Number Reduction in Naphthenic Acids Using Ionic Liquid-Assisted Hot Water

ICIPEG 2016 ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 697-707
Author(s):  
P. C. Mandal ◽  
N. F. B. Salleh ◽  
D. Ruen-ngam
2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 1269-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Pauchard ◽  
Johan Sjöblom ◽  
Sunil Kokal ◽  
Patrick Bouriat ◽  
Christophe Dicharry ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (SI-TeMIC18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norshahidatul Akmar Shohaimi ◽  
Wan Azelee Wan Abu Bakar ◽  
Nurasmat Mohd Shukri ◽  
Khairan Shaidi

Naphthenic acids (NAs) is one of the major sources of corrosion in oil pipelines and distillation units in crude oil refineries. Removing NA compounds from crude oils is regarded as one of the most crucial processes in heavy oil upgrading. Catalytic deacidification method had been developed in order to reduce the total acid number values in crude oil. Crude oil from Petronas Penapisan Melaka had been chosen to be studied with original total acid number (TAN) of 2.43 mg KOH/g. The parameters used were different catalyst calcination temperatures, catalyst loading, reagent concentration, reaction times and reaction temperature. Acid removal agent of 2-methylimidazole in ethanol and monometallic calcium and cerium doped with alumina were used as a catalyst. The results showed that with the aid of catalyst, the TAN can be reduced to lower than 1 mg KOH/g. Catalyst of Ca/Al2O3 calcined at 900oC gave a better reduction than Ce/Al2O3 with 83.54% of TAN reduction (2.43 to 0.4) for Ca/Al2O3 catalyst and 71.19% (2.43 to 0.7) for Ce/Al2O3 catalyst. The best catalyst underwent several characterization methods such as X-Ray Diffraction Spectroscopy (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Thermogravimetry Analysis (TGA-DTA) for its physicochemical properties. It can be concluded that catalytic deacidification method was effective in extracting NAs from the crude oil thus lowered the TAN value to less than 1 mg KOH/g. Keywords: Naphthenic acids; Crude oil; Catalysts


2021 ◽  
Vol 1195 (1) ◽  
pp. 012013
Author(s):  
A Hussain ◽  
J Basar

Abstract Desalting process concept was tested using methyltrimethylammonium methylcarbonate [N4441][MeCO3] treated Pyrenees crude oil (initial Total Acid Number (TAN) of 1.6 mg KOH/g oil) with the aim to gain empirical evidences on the effectiveness of in-line water washing and electrostatic aided phase separation as mean to recover the naphthenic acid derivatives for recycling. The treated crude oil (final TAN value of less than 0.3 mg KOH/g oil) was subjected to typical operating scheme such as single stage desalting and effects of water wash volumes. The novelty of the work comes from the utilisation of ionic liquids to neutralise acid components of the crude oil. Furthermore, the work is also able to test the hypothesis of whether naphthenate salts behave as is its inorganic counterpart and quantify the solubility behaviour in water as extraction medium. The effectiveness of such scheme will be measured against naphthenic acids derivative percent recovery in the wash water. The results indicate the electrostatic conditions can facilitate the recovery of the naphthenate salts post neutralization with high recovery rate of average of 70.6 % with 30 % water wash volume in a single-stage contact, observed over 12 hours steady-state operation. The water wash weight was observed to increase post separation which indicate hydrocarbon carry-over in the heavy phase due to formation of tight water – oil emulsion. The technique is viable should the amount of water required is available and the process water can be recycled safely into the desalter again without causing tripping to the desalter. Ionic liquid can be used in conjunction with desalter and the presence of electrostatic field did hasten the separation of the phases, however the amount of water used may hinder the viability of the solution.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Zafar ◽  
Pradip Chandra Mandal ◽  
Ku Zilati bt Ku Shaari ◽  
Saad Nadeem

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradip C. Mandal ◽  
Thasvinya Nagarajan

Abstract Cyclopentane carboxylic acid (CPCA) is a model compound of Naphthenic acids (NAs). This objective of this paper is to discover total acid number (TAN) reduction kinetics and pathways of the reaction between CAPA and subcritical methanol (SubC-MeOH). The experiments were carried out in an autoclave reactor at temperatures of 180-220°C, a methanol partial pressure (MPP) of 3 MPa, reaction times of 0-30 min and CPCA initial gas phase concentrations of 0.016-0.04 g/mL. TAN content of the samples were analyzed using ASTM D 974 techniques. The reaction products were identified and quantified with the help of GC/MS and GC-FID respectively. Experimental results reveal that TAN removal kinetics followed first order kinetics with an activation energy of 13.97 kcal/mol and a pre-exponential factor of 174.21 s-1. Subcritical methanol is able to reduce TAN of CPCA decomposing CPCA into new compounds such as cyclopentane, formaldehyde, methyl acetate and 3-pentanol.


2020 ◽  
Vol 606 ◽  
pp. 117835
Author(s):  
Kanghee Cho ◽  
Bharat Singh Rana ◽  
Dong-Woo Cho ◽  
Hee Tae Beum ◽  
Cheol-Hyun Kim ◽  
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