Any latest development in the world of asphaltene inhibitor and asphaltene in general?
Ahmed Helmi
Adjunct Professor at Pharos University
Win:
1- Glad that my previous comment draged you to tell valuable technical information, very educational to me from a subject-matter-expert. Thanks.
2- While reading your comment describing how difficult Asphaltenes detrmination is for the Analytical Chemists I recalled my first day at Prof Dr Mike Delaney's Artificial Intelligence Lab at Boston Univ close to the mid eighties as PhD student: Here we add intelligence to chromatographs and spectrophotometers to predict the structure and concentration of simple molecules as a beginning, Absolute No if you ever think of complex molecules of your Petroleum Industry, No for Asphaltenes or Aromatic Extracts!! At then I realized how carefully he read my CV where I wrote about my humble experimentation for their column chromatographic separation in Egypt, ambitious dreams/curiosity of a junior lab chemist equipped with only a glass column and a refractometer Russian-made.
Humberto:
Still waiting for your elaboration if you don't mind:
Colloidal particles molecular size range from 1 nanometer to 1 micron
Suspended Solids (Can I say "molecular size" here too???) around 10 micron
Which type of Solutes are you targetting for the separation? If there is no solvent added yet; I would expect the Ashaltenes suspended in the oil (dispersion medium) as a stabilized collodal system, meaning in Colloidal Dimensions (1 nano meter to 1 micrometer) not as Suspended Solids as we know the term in water chemistry. Please correct me if I were wrong.
