Mixture of hydrocarbons

Vaseline A trade name for soft paraffin. Yellow and white semi-solid, partly translucent mixtures of hydrocarbons of the paraffin series ranging from CijHji to C2oH42- Obtained from the high-boiling fractions of petroleum... 

A correlation between retention times and boiling points is established by calibration with a known mixture of hydrocarbons, usually normal paraffins, whose boiling points are known (see Figure 2.2). From this information, the distribution of boiling points of the sample mixture is obtained. 

To extend the applicability of the characterization factor to the complex mixtures of hydrocarbons found in petroleum fractions, it was necessary to introduce the concept of a mean average boiling point temperature to a petroleum cut. This is calculated from the distillation curves, either ASTM or TBP. The volume average boiling point (VABP) is derived from the cut point temperatures for 10, 20, 50, 80 or 90% for the sample in question. In the above formula, VABP replaces the boiling point for the pure component. 

We will use the term petroleum fraction to designate a mixture of hydrocarbons whose boiling points fall within a narrow temperature range, typically as follows ... 

It is common that a mixture of hydrocarbons whose boiling points are far enough apart petroleum cut) is characterized by a distillation curve and an average standard specific gravity. It is then necessary to calculate the standard specific gravity of each fraction composing the cut by using the relation below [4.8] ... 

As seen in Chapter 2, mixtures of hydrocarbons and petroleum fractions are analyzed in the laboratory using precise standards published by ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) and incorporated for the most part into international (ISO), European (EN) and national (NF) collections. We wiil recall below the methods utilizing a classification by boiling point ... 

For mixtures of hydrocarbons and petroleum fractions, the same formula applies , ... 

The method has an average error of 5% for all mixtures of hydrocarbons whose conductivities of its components are known. 

This method applies only to mixtures of hydrocarbons. The average error is about 5%. ... 

In the petroleum refining and natural gas treatment industries, mixtures of hydrocarbons are more often separated into their components or into narrower mixtures by chemical engineering operations that make use of phase equilibria between liquid and gas phases such as those mentioned below ... 

Definition Mixture of hydrocarbons of mineral or synthetic origin... 

Use a sample of purified n-heptane fraction from petroleum (1), b.p. 90-100° this consists of a mixture of hydrocarbons in which the heptanes predominate. Carry out the following tests. 

Quantitative analysis. Spectroscopic analysis is widely used in the analysis of vitamin preparations, mixtures of hydrocarbons (e.y., benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes) and other systems exhibiting characteristic electronic spectra. The extinction coefficient at 326 mp, after suitable treatment to remove other materials absorbing in this region, provides the best method for the estimation of the vitamin A content of fish oils. 

In a separation of a mixture of hydrocarbons, the following adjusted retention times were measured. 

Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory. Perhaps the most successful approach to the prediction of multicomponent equiUbria from single-component isotherm data is ideal adsorbed solution theory (14). In essence, the theory is based on the assumption that the adsorbed phase is thermodynamically ideal in the sense that the equiUbrium pressure for each component is simply the product of its mole fraction in the adsorbed phase and the equihbrium pressure for the pure component at the same spreadingpressure. The theoretical basis for this assumption and the details of the calculations required to predict the mixture isotherm are given in standard texts on adsorption (7) as well as in the original paper (14). Whereas the theory has been shown to work well for several systems, notably for mixtures of hydrocarbons on carbon adsorbents, there are a number of systems which do not obey this model. Azeotrope formation and selectivity reversal, which are observed quite commonly in real systems, ate not consistent with an ideal adsorbed... 

Quantitative estimation of cyclohexane in the presence of benzene and aUphatic hydrocarbons may be accompHshed by a nitration-dehydrogenation method described in Reference 61. The mixture is nitrated with mixed acid and under conditions that induce formation of the soluble mononitroaromatic derivative. The original mixture of hydrocarbons then is dehydrogenated over a platinum catalyst and is nitrated again. The mononitro compounds of the original benzene and the benzene formed by dehydrogenation of the cyclohexane dissolve in the mixed acid. The aUphatic compound remains unattacked and undissolved. This reaction may be carried out on a micro scale. 

Sasol Fischer-Tropsch Process. 1-Propanol is one of the products from Sasol s Fischer-Tropsch process (7). Coal (qv) is gasified ia Lurgi reactors to produce synthesis gas (H2/CO). After separation from gas Hquids and purification, the synthesis gas is fed iato the Sasol Synthol plant where it is entrained with a powdered iron-based catalyst within the fluid-bed reactors. The exothermic Fischer-Tropsch reaction produces a mixture of hydrocarbons (qv) and oxygenates. The condensation products from the process consist of hydrocarbon Hquids and an aqueous stream that contains a mixture of ketones (qv) and alcohols. The ketones and alcohols are recovered and most of the alcohols are used for the blending of high octane gasoline. Some of the alcohol streams are further purified by distillation to yield pure 1-propanol and ethanol ia a multiunit plant, which has a total capacity of 25,000-30,000 t/yr (see Coal conversion processes, gasification). 

Synthetic piae oil is produced by the acid-cataly2ed hydration of mainly a-piaene derived from sulfate turpentine, followed by distillation of the cmde mixture of hydrocarbons and alcohols. The predominant alcohol obtained is a-terpiueol, although under the usual conditions of the reaction, reversible and dehydration reactions lead to multiple hydrocarbon and alcohol components (Fig. 1). 

The solvent is then evaporated, and the unconverted sterol is recovered by precipitation from an appropriate solvent, eg, alcohol. The recovered sterol is reused in subsequent irradiations. The solvent is then evaporated to yield vitamin D resin. The resin is a pale yeUow-to-amber oil that flows freely when hot and becomes a brittie glass when cold the activity of commercial resin is 20 30 x 10 lU/g. The resin is formulated without further purification for use in animal feeds. Vitamin D can be crystallized to give the USP product from a mixture of hydrocarbon solvent and ahphatic nitrile, eg, benzene and acetonitrile, or from methyl formate (100,101). Chemical complexation has also been used for purification. 

Wax usually refers to a substance that is a plastic solid at ambient temperature and that, on being subjected to moderately elevated temperatures, becomes a low viscosity hquid. Because it is plastic, wax usually deforms under pressure without the appHcation of heat. The chemical composition of waxes is complex all of the products have relatively wide molecular weight profiles, with the functionaUty ranging from products that contain mainly normal alkanes to those that are mixtures of hydrocarbons and reactive functional species. 

Most waxes are complex mixtures of molecules with different carbon lengths, stmctures, and functionaHty. Attempts to measure the exact chemical composition are extremely difficult, even for the vegetable waxes, which are based on a relatively few number of basic molecules. Products such as oxidised microcrystaHine wax not only have a mixture of hydrocarbon lengths and types as starting materials, but also add complexity through the introduction of various types of carboxyHc functionaHty onto those hydrocarbons during the oxidation process. 

Bitumen Soluble in Carbon Disuffide (ASTMD4). Asphalt is defined as a mixture of hydrocarbons that are completely soluble in carbon disulfide. Trichloroethylene or 1,1,1-trichloroethane have been used in recent years as safer solvents for this purpose. The procedure for these and other solvents for asphalt with Htde or no mineral matter are described in ASTM D2042. 

An interesting development in the use of metal carbonyl catalysts is the production of hydrocarbons from carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a molten solution of sodium chloride and aluminum chloride with It4(CO) 2 a catalyst yields a mixture of hydrocarbons. Ethane is the primary product (184). 

Tanks cool and partially freeze solids form a layer of self-insulation. This complex case, which has been known to occur with heavy hydrocarbons and mixtures of hydrocarbons, has been discussed by Stnhlbarg [Pet. Refiner,. 38, 143 (Apr. 1, 1959)]. The contents in the center of snch tanks have been known to remain warm and liquid even after several years of cooling. 

The metallic catalysts for exliaust pollution control are designed to perform three functions. The air/fuel ratio employed in combustion engines creates exhaust products which are a mixture of hydrocarbons, carbon oxides, and niU ogen oxides. These must be rendered environmentally innocuous by reactions on the catalyst such as... 

By the methylation of commercial xylene and separation of the mesitylene from the mixture of hydrocarbons by crystallization of the sulfonate. Smith and Cass, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 54, 1603 (1932). 

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