Ahmed Helmi

Adjunct Professor at Pharos University

Win: I was about to shutdown my Laptop, take a break, then I made a visit to the Group to see if any comment. I am now fully alert and thanks again and again for your generous information about the latest updates in Asphaltenes' research. Mansoori is depending on the PT diagram and its Gas Envelope to characterize the separation of different phase/s per given change in PT and I was about to consider the extension of his approach when it comes to Asphaltenes as exaggeration; but I recalled a scene during a visit to the Lab of a Gas Separation plant west of Alexandria a couple of years ago. An experimentalist chief chemist of that Lab showed me his separated Asphaltenes out of Natural Gas Condensates with Gas Oil at its tail end. He managed to concentrate these Asphaltenes by several consequent distIllations starting with a Large quantity of Condensates. I was shocked as I used to tell my students that Asphaltenes can be found only in Crudes/Residues. Could these separated Asphaltenes precipitated out of the Condensates according to the PT Diagram? Rephrasing; could this support Mansoori's claim? Win: it seems that I always manage to drag you for deeper insights, will this one work?

Oil Techie04:38, 4 December 2013