Fractionation of diesel fuel from petroleum and Paraho shale oils. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5519996

Hammer, C F

A fractionation scheme has been developed to separate diesel fuels into neutral water solubles, acidic components, basic components, saturated hydrocarbons, substituted benzenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and polar neutrals. A sample of conventional petroleum diesel fuel and a sample of diesel fuel derived from Paraho crude shale oil by the Gary-Western process were fractionated by this procedure. Each fraction was further analyzed by gas chromatography and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The petroleum sample was found to contain 17.5% total aromatics of which 9.5% were polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons compounds. However, the Paraho-Gray Western shale oil fuel contained about twice as much total aromatics (38.2%) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons compounds (19.3%). The total acyclic hydrocarbon straight chain compounds content was 66.7% for the petroleum sample and 59,3% for the Paraho-Gary Western shale sample. Suggestions for further work are also made.

• Research Organization: Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC (USA). Dept. of Chemistry
• OSTI ID: 5519996
• Report Number(s): AD-A-107042/4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
ALKANES
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
AROMATICS
DIESEL FUELS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
PRODUCTION
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
FRACTIONATION
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
SHALE OIL
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
HYDROCARBONS
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
OIL SHALES
PROTONS
SYNTHETIC FUELS
BARYONS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY SOURCES
FERMIONS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HADRONS
MAGNETIC RESONANCE
MATERIALS
MINERAL OILS
NUCLEONS
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
RESONANCE
SEPARATION PROCESSES
023000* - Petroleum- Properties & Composition
040500 - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Properties & Composition
040403 - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Refining
020400 - Petroleum- Processing