Abstract
The physico-chemical behavior of asphaltene is very useful to assist prediction and control the mechanisms of asphaltene deposition during the production of petroleum fluids. It has been realized that the first step in the formation of precipitated asphaltene particles is the self-aggregation mechanism to form colloidal particles or pseudo-micelles in several solvents. In this work, the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of two asphaltene fractions extracted from vacuum residues (VR) were obtained by surface tension measurements, using aromatic solvents. The molecular weight (1094-565 g/mol), calculated from average radii of the asphaltene molecules adsorbed at the air–solvent interface, are also in agreement with the values for small aggregates reported using small angle X-ray scattering.
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