Abstract
In our previous articles (Energy & Fuels 2017, 31, 133–139 and Energy & Fuels 2017, 31, 8997–9005), it was presented that the asphaltenes of the Colorado field have different chemical structures, and these change the properties of crystallization of the paraffins. In this paper, we present a new way to understand the effects of the chemical structure of the asphaltenes on crude oil rheology, which includes correlating the average molecular parameters (AMPs) and the concentration of the asphaltenes with rheological properties using chemometric methods such as the partial least squares method. The asphaltenes were separated from six crude oil samples (average °API of 38) and were characterized using nuclear magnetic resonance to determine their main molecular parameters. Rheological properties including viscosity, yield stress, and gel temperature were experimentally determined for each of the crude oil samples and their respective maltenes. The results of a multivariate analysis show that the AMPs of the a...
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