Empirical study of major items in the sulfur removal process from heavy and light crude oil

Abstract

Finding the properties of crude oil after addition of nano particle is considered in this work. The experiments are held to investigate the effect of nano particles on the physical properties of two kinds of heavy crude oil (API =21.45) and light crude oil (API= 32.95). Properties of crude oil are important in refinement processes in refineries. Investigations have been focused on separation methods which lead to the refined oil with acceptable quality. Nano copper oxide with range of 70-90 nm approximately in diameter is added in crude oil and changes in hydrogen sulfide removal is surveyed with various temperature and pressure.