Abstract
High asphaltene content in heavy crude oil normally generates adverse rheological properties that affect the flow through the reservoir, preventing optimal hydrocarbon production. It has been demonstrated that using nanoparticles may improve the mobility of oil. Nanoparticles may be used as adsorbents and catalysts in the oil industry for in situ upgrading. The main objective of this study was to investigate the sorption kinetics and the thermodynamic equilibrium for asphaltene sorption onto nickel and/or palladium oxides supported on fumed silica that was nanoparticulated at different times, temperatures, and concentrations. After adsorption, thermally cracked asphaltenes from Colombian crude oil were investigated using catalytic oxidation. The asphaltenes adsorbed onto the selected nanoparticles were subjected to thermal decomposition up to 700 °C in a thermogravimetric analyzer. This study was realized using an experimental design with a measured simplex–centroid of the three components by varying the ...
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