Hydrogen donating capacity of water in catalytic and non-catalytic aquathermolysis of extra-heavy oil: Deuterium tracing study

[Display omitted] •Role of water in aquathermolysis was investigated by isotope tracing technique.•Chemical role of water as a green and environmental hydrogen-donor was proved.•Significant deuterium exchanges in aliphatic and aromatics parts observed in FTIR.•Isotope analysis shows deuterium substi...

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Published in:	Fuel (Guildford) Vol. 283; p. 118957
Main Authors:	Al-Muntaser, Ameen A., Varfolomeev, Mikhail A., Suwaid, Muneer A., Feoktistov, Dmitriy A., Yuan, Chengdong, Klimovitskii, Alexander E., Gareev, Bulat I., Djimasbe, Richard, Nurgaliev, Danis K., Kudryashov, Sergey I., Egorova, Ekaterina V., Fomkin, Artem V., Petrashov, Oleg V., Afanasiev, Igor S., Fedorchenko, Gennady D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01-01-2021 Elsevier BV
Subjects:	Aromatic compounds Asphaltenes Catalysts Catalytic aquathermolysis Chemical properties Deuteration Deuterium Deuterium tracing Donating capacity Gases Heavy water In-situ deuteration Isotope labelling Resins Sulfur Sulfur content Tracing Upgrading Viscosity measurement Deuterium tracing Donating capacity Heavy water In-situ deuteration Isotope labelling Catalytic aquathermolysis
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Summary:	[Display omitted] •Role of water in aquathermolysis was investigated by isotope tracing technique.•Chemical role of water as a green and environmental hydrogen-donor was proved.•Significant deuterium exchanges in aliphatic and aromatics parts observed in FTIR.•Isotope analysis shows deuterium substitution in upgraded oil and SARA fractions.•Ni-tallate promoted both the donating capacity of water and upgrading performance. The goal of this work is to try to figure out the role of water in catalytic and non-catalytic aquathermolysis by using isotope tracing techniques. For this purpose, heavy water (deuterium oxide, D2O) was used to replace the ordinary water (H2O) for catalytic and non-catalytic aquathermolysis processes of extra-heavy oil with high sulfur content in autoclave. The donating and upgrading performance of D2O were deeply investigated by analyzing the upgraded (deuterated) oil and their SARA (saturates, aromatics, resins and asphaltenes) fractions using different tracing techniques (FTIR, isotope and elemental analysis), evolved gases by GC, and change in physical-chemical properties of upgraded (deuterated) oils by viscosity measurement, SARA analysis, elemental analysis and GC, etc. The results proved the chemical role of water as a green and environmental hydrogen-donor solvent during aquathermolysis process, verified by considerable deuterium substitution (deuteration) obtained from isotope analysis both in upgraded oil and SARA fractions. The results are further supported by significant deuterium exchanges (deuteration) of aliphatic and aromatics parts in the initial and deuterated oil samples and their individual SARA fractions in FTIR spectra. Simultaneously, introducing Ni-tallate as an oil-soluble catalyst promoted the donating capacity of water, thus significantly improving the upgrading performance. The important finding about the role of water in catalytic and non-catalytic aquathermolysis not only enriches the theoretical basis in this area, but also provides a strong support for the use of catalysts in aquathermolysis for improving in-situ heavy oil upgrading performance.
ISSN:	0016-2361 1873-7153
DOI:	10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118957