Abstract: A crude oil composition wherein fouling has been mitigating and a method for mitigating crude oil fouling. The composition includes crude oil and an improved dispersant material for mitigating fouling which comprises a reaction product of a polyamine and a polyisobutylene succinyl anhydride made with a polyisobutylene having a vinylidene double bond content of at least 50%. The reaction product has an active nitrogen atom content of at least about 2% by weight. The reaction product is prepared by thermally reacting the polyisobutylene with maleic anhydride to produce said polyisobutylene succinyl anhydride and thereafter reacting the polyisobutylene succinyl anhydride with a polyamine having 5 to 7 active nitrogen atoms. The method includes providing the dispersant material and dispersing the same in crude oil.

Abstract: Samples of a petroleum oil stream (e.g. crude oil feed stream to a refinery) are continually monitored to determine incompatible asphaltenes therein and the rate of antifoulant is adjusted in response to changes in the level of incompatible asphaltenes. The method of the present invention employs thin layer chromatographic films for separating incompatible asphaltenes and for measuring an optical property indicative of the incompatible asphaltenes, and for varying antifoulant addition in response to changes of the optical property measured.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting fouling in a crude ethylene dichloride stream comprises introducing into the stream an inhibiting amount of an antifoulant selected from (A) an acylated amine (e.g., reaction product of polyisobutylene and maleic anhydride) and a polyamine (B) magnesium alkyl aryl sulfonate, and (C) a mixture of A and B.

Abstract: A process for preparing a baseoil blend of predetermined coking tendency, and for measuring the effectiveness of additives for reducing coking tendency in baseoils, utilizing the relationship of the content of volatile fractions and low boiling fractions in baseoil to the onset and/or progression of asphaltene formation.

Abstract: Low temperature asphaltene fouling is inhibited in highly paraffinic crude oil, liquified hydrocarbon gases (e.g. LPG, condensates) and blends thereof by the incorporation of an inhibiting amount of an oil soluble overbased magnesium sulfonate.

Abstract: A process for preparing a baseoil blend of predetermined coking tendency, and for measuring the effectiveness of additives for reducing coking tendency in baseoils, utilizing the relationship of the content of volatile fractions and how boiling fractions in baseoil to the onset and/or progression of asphaltene formation.

Abstract: Method of producing a baseoil having a reduced coking tendency by removing precursors from the baseoil. Baseoil having reduced coking tendencies which comprises a substantially no coking precursors therein.

Abstract: Crude oil (one of which is a high fouling crude oil) are blended to maintain the incompatible asphaltene thereof below a predetermined level thereby reducing the fouling tendency of the high fouling crude oil. Paraffinic liquids, LPG's, and condensates may also be blended with crude oil, while monitoring and controlling incompatible asphaltenes thereof.

Abstract: Method of characterizing the coking tendency of a baseoil, by:(a) exposing the baseoil to conditions which accelerate asphaltene formation in the baseoil; and(b) testing for the onset and/or progression of asphaltene formation as a function of time.The technique is also useful for determining the efficacy of oil additives.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for determining the tendency of hydrocarbon liquid to foul equipment includes a horizontal polymeric membrane made from polymers containing polar atoms, a light source for scanning hydrocarbon liquid sample on the membrane, and means for measuring the difference in light reflected by the asphaltene ring and the membrane matrix. Energy sources other than light may be employed.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for determining the tendency of hydrocarbon liquid to foul equipment includes a horizontal TLC plate, a light source for scanning hydrocarbon liquid sample on the TLC plate, and means for measuring the difference in light reflected by the asphaltene ring and the TLC matrix. Energy sources other than light may be employed.

Abstract: A method for easily and quickly determining the tendency of a petroleum fraction (oil or resid) to foul in refinery equipment comprises determining the ratio of the saturates or aromatics (polar, neutral or total): asphaltenes for the petroleum in question and comparing this ratio with a plot of ratios and fouling tendencies for a set of prior oils or resids. It has been found that the ratio and the relationship to fouling are completely consistent and reproducible phenomenon which thereby provide a rapid means for a substantially quantitative measure of fouling tendency.

Abstract: A method for determining the fouling tendency of an asphaltene containing petroleum stream such as crude oil by the use of thin layer chromatography. The chromatogram of a crude oil formed in the presence of an asphaltene antisolvent which exhibits a fouling tendency developed a distinct, dark ring or disk.

Abstract: A method for determining the fouling tendency of an asphaltene containing hydrocarbon stream such as crude oil by the use of thin layer chromatography. The chromatogram of a crude oil exhibiting a fouling tendency developed a distinct, dark ring or disk.

Abstract: Inexpensive lubricating oil antioxidants having a solubilizing group which comprises alkyl and cycloalkyl-substituted aromatics and a reducing thiophenyl group, which are useful motor oil additives. Method of reducing coking tendencies of lubricating oils by incorporating the substituted aromatic antioxidants.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for treating cat cracker bottoms sludge to remove the cat cracker bottoms hydrocarbons from the catalyst fines in the sludge to provide treated fines which are environmentally safe for landfill. The process involves mixing the sludge with a hydrocarbon diluent, separating the fines from the diluent-sludge mixture, then mixing the separated fines and remaining diluent with water and distilling off the remaining diluent to obtain the treated fines.

Abstract: The invention features the fractionating of crude oils into component parts of saturate, neutral aromatic, and polar aromatic fractions, using high performance liquid chromatography techniques. Analysis of the various fractions can be used to predict the tendency of the crude oil to cause fouling of refinery heatexchanger equipment.

Abstract: Deposit formation on the contact surfaces of structures containing heated hydrocarbon fluids such as refinery units, particularly units associated with the distilling process such as preheating stages, is inhibited by incorporating in the feed stock from 0.0001 to 0.01 weight percent of thiophene-containing polycondensed aromatic/naphthenic compounds of number average molecular weight (Mn) from 200 to 1000 and if desired at least one other additive such as an oil-soluble dispersant, antioxidant, antipolymerant, antifoulant and mixtures thereof into said hydrocarbon stream.

Abstract: Deposit formation on the contact surfaces of structures containing heated hydrocarbon fluids such as refinery units, particularly units associated with the distilling process such as preheating stages, is inhibited by incorporating in the feed stock from 0.0001 to 0.01 weight percent of the combination of thiophene-containing polycondensed aromatic/naphthenic compounds of number average molecular weight (Mn) from 200 to 1000 and a macrocyclic polyamine of 2 to 8 nitrogen atoms per molecule and, if desired, at least one other additive such as an oil-soluble dispersant, antioxidant, antipolymerant, anti-foulant and mixtures thereof into said hydrocarbon stream.

Abstract: A process for removing suspended solids particularly difficulty filterable solids from an oil obtained as a refinery process bottom fraction from both steam and catalytic cracking units (e.g. catalytic cracker bottoms) or from coal conversion processes (e.g. coal tar) by adding to the oil a water-soluble agglomerating agent comprising an aqueous solution of a polyamine containing primary, secondary and tertiary amine functional groups with nitrogen content at least 25 wt. %.