Catalytic In–Situ Upgrading of Heavy and Extra–Heavy Crude Oils

Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, PhD, is Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Head of the Enhanced Oil Laboratory of Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published extensively on heavy oil, in-situ upgrading, and related subjects. Chengdong Yuan, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published widely on hydrocarbon recovery, in-situ heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects. Jorge Ancheyta, PhD, is Manager of Products for the Transformation of Crude Oil at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum, where he has worked since 1989, as well as Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City. He has taught and published prodigiously on petroleum refinement, heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects.

List of Contributors xv About the Editors xix Preface xxi 1 Properties of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oils 1 Alexis Tirado, Guillermo Félix, Fernando Trejo, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Chengdong Yuan, Danis K. Nurgaliev, Vicente Sámano, and Jorge Ancheyta 2 Advanced Characterization of Heavy Crude Oils and their Fractions 39 3 Applications of Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques of Heavy Crudes 153 Chengdong Yuan, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Mustafa V. Kok, Danis K. Nurgaliev, and Airat H. Gabbasov 4 Fundamentals of In Situ Upgrading 168 Alexey Vakhin, Firdavs Aliev, Galina Kaukova, Ameen A. Al-Muntaser, Muneer A. Suwaid, Chengdong Yuan, Jorge Ancheyta, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev 5 Catalyst for In Situ Upgrading of Heavy Oils 237 Persi Schacht, Pablo Torres-Mancera, and Jorge Ancheyta 6 Nanoparticles for Heavy Oil In Situ Upgrading 263 Muneer A. Suwaid, Sergey A. Sitnov, Ameen Al-Muntaser, Chengdong Yuan, Alexey Vakhin, Jorge Ancheyta, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev 7 Catalytic Mechanism and Kinetics 309 Guillermo Félix, Alexis Tirado, Ameen Al-Muntaser, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Chengdong Yuan, and Jorge Ancheyta 8 Application of Quantum Chemical Calculations for Studying Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Catalytic Mechanisms of In Situ Upgrading 382 Nail Khafizov, Vadim Neklyudov, Anastasiya Mikhailova, and Oleg Kadkin 9 Behavior of Catalyst in Porous Media 435 Timur R. Zakirov, Rail I. Kadyrov, Chengdong Yuan, and Mikhail A. Varfolomeev 10 Numerical Simulation of Catalytic In Situ Oil Upgrading Process 453 Allan Rojas, Denis Shevchenko, Vladislav Sudakov, Sergey Usmanov, and Michael Kwofie 11 Novel Technologies for Upgrading Heavy and Extra-Heavy Oil 489 Khusain Kadiev, Anton L. Maximov, and Jorge Ancheyta Index 521