American Petroleum Institute Projects

Selected Properties of Hydrocarbons and Pelated Compounds American Petroleum Institute Project 44, Chemical Thermodynamic Properties Center, Dept, of Chemistry, A M College of Texas, College Station, Tex. 

Zwolinski, B.J., Wilhoit, R.C. (1971) Handbook of Vapor Pressures and Heats of Vaporization of Hydrocarbons and Related Compounds. American Petroleum Institute Project 44, API 44-TRC Publications in Science and Engineering, Texas A M University, College Station, Texas. 

API. 1979a. Acute dermal toxicity API 78-3 2 home heating oil (10% cat). Washington, DC American Petroleum Institute. Project no. 1443-D. 

Knocking characteristics of pure hydrocarbons and observed correlations between structure and knock have been summarized by Lovell (117). Work of American Petroleum Institute Project 45 (2, 3) represents a large fraction of this information. The reasons for these relationships have not been as adequately reviewed. 

American Petroleum Institute Project 44 Selected Values of the Thermodynamic Properties of Hydrocarbons, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.,... 

Thermodynamic Research Center (TRC), Thermodynamic Tables of Hydrocarbons, formerly American Petroleum Institute Project 44 (see Ref [8]) (published as loose leaf sheets by Texas A M University, College Station, TX presently NIST-TRC Boulder Co.), (a) D. R. Stull and H. Prophet, JANAF Thermo chemical Tables, 2nd edition, NSRDS-NBS 37, National Standard Reference Data System (NSRDS), National Bureau of Standards (NBS), Washington, DC (1971). (b) M. W. Chase, Jr., C. A. Davies, J. R. Downey, Jr., D. J. Fmrip, R. A. McDonald, and A. N. Syvemd, JANAF Thermo chemical Tables, 3rd edition (Parts I and II), J. Phys. Chem. Ref, Data 14 (Suppl. 1), 1-1856 (1985). (c) M. W. Chase,... 

A bands 157-158, 170, 171, 175 abscissa accuracy 60 absorbance 4-6,303 absorption 78,99 absorption band 99, 101 absorptivity 304,315 acetic acid 199, 292 acetone 199, 268, 269 acetonitrile 198,295 acetophenone 243, 263, 264, 268 acetyl chloride 268 acids 274 air 24 allowed bands combination 133 fundamental 130-133, 137 overtone 134 alcohols 276, 293, 294 aldehydes 268,274 alkanes 193-197 alkenes 235, 249, 252-259 alkynes 259-261 allene 128 allene-l,l-d2 128 allyl alcohol 241 allyl chloride 235, 237, 255 alternating axis 107 American Petroleum Institute Project 44 347... 

American Petroleum Institute Research Project 42, "Properties of Hydrocarbons of High Molecular Weight," API, Division of Science and Technology, New York, 1966. 

Table 7.76 is condensed, with permission, from the Catalog of Mass Spectral Data of the American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44. These, and other tables, should be consulted for further and more detailed information. 

The octane numbers of many pure compounds have been measured and reported in the Hterature. Probably the most comprehensive project was carried out under the auspices of the American Petroleum Institute (18). Table 2 Hsts RON and MON values for a number of representative compounds. Some aromatic compounds cannot be tested neat in the knock engine, so these are evaluated at levels of 20%, and the equivalent octane number is calculated. The values for oxygenates in Table 2 have been reported elsewhere (19). 

B. J. Zwolinski and co-workers. Selected Eltraviolet Spectral Data, American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44, Thermodynamics Research Center, Texas A M University, College Station, Tex., 1961. 

Characterisation of the Heavy Ends of Petroleum, API Project 60, American Petroleum Institute, 1971 J. E. Dooley, D. E. Hirsch, C. J. Thompson, and... 

Belated Compounds, American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44, Carnegie Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1953. 

P. E. Kerr, ed., "Reference Clay Minerals," American Petroleum Institute Research Project 49, 1950. 

Selected Values of Properties of Hydrocarbons, Research Project 44, American Petroleum Institute, New York, 1953. 

The values given in the following table for the heats and free energies of formation of inorganic compounds are derived from a) Bichowsky and Rossini, Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances, Reinhold, New York, 1936 (h) Latimer, Oxidation States of the Elements and Their Potentials in Aqueous Solution, Prentice-Hall, New York, 1938 (c) the tables of the American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44 at the National Bureau of Standards and (d) the tables of Selected Values of Chemical Thermodynamic Properties of the National Bureau of Standards. The reader is referred to the preceding books and tables for additional details as to methods of calculation, standard states, and so on. 

White, R. E. and Oswald, C. J. 1992. Mitigation of Explosion Hazards of Marine Vapor Control Systems. Southwest Research Institute, Final Report, SWRl Project No. 06-4116 for the American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC (October 1992). 

To fund Patterson s project, Harrison Brown convinced the American Petroleum Institute that information about ocean sediments would help locate oil. Harrison got money from them every year, huge amounts, to fund the operation of my laboratory, which had nothing whatsoever to do with oil in any way, shape, or form, Patterson recalled. To me it was just a falsehood. .. a fib. But Brown continued to get Patterson the money he needed for several years. 

Prud homme, R.K. "Rheological Characterization of Fracturing Fluids," Final Report API PRAC Project 84-45, American Petroleum Institute, Dallas, TX (1985). 

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